Guatemala : human rights and the Myrna Mack case / Torsten Wiesel and Carol Corillon, editors ; Committee on Human Rights, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiesel, Torsten.

Corillon, Carol.

National Academies (U.S.). Committee on Human Rights.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mack, Myrna, 1949-1990--Assassination--Guatemala.

Mack, Myrna.

Human rights--Guatemala.

Human rights.

Trials (Assassination)--Guatemala.

Trials (Assassination).

Criminal justice, Administration of--Guatemala.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Scientists--Civil rights--Guatemala.

Scientists.

Physical Description:

viii, 53 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Two members of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR), NAS member Mary Jane West-Eberhard and NAS/NAE member Morton Panish, undertook a mission to Guatemala to observe the trial of two high-level Guatemalan military officials who were charged with ordering the murder of Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack. She was stabbed to death in 1990, two days after a report for which she was principal researcher, "Assistance and Control: Policies Toward Internally Displaced Populations in Guatemala," was published by the Georgetown University Press. Ms. Mack had been doing research on and writing about the unjust treatment of the internally displaced people in Guatemala. Thirteen years after Ms. Mack's murder-after the case had gone through dozens of courts and countless delays-a general and colonel in the Guatemalan military intelligence apparatus were brought to trial, and one was convicted. This marked the first time in Guatemalan history that a high-level military official had been brought to justice for atrocities he committed during Guatemala's 30-year civil war. This report summarizes the one-month trial proceedings.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

INTRODUCTION

REPORT OF THE 2002 MISSION

CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIXES

A. Committee on Human Rights Description

B. "Justice Against All Odds," Rachel Garst

C. Meetings and Events Attended by Mission Delegates

D. Death Threat

E. Statement by the Myrna Mack Foundation.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780309182638

0309182638

9780309507851

0309507855

OCLC:

53985933