State Sued by disappearances
By: Hugo Alvarado
The state was sued in the Human Rights Commission, enforced disappearance during the armed conflict.
Relatives of the disappeared are asking the Commission to support the international claim against the State of Guatemala, in order eventually to a trial to condemn the policy of enforced disappearance.
With the support of the Myrna Mack Foundation, relatives of 20 victims of enforced disappearances in Guatemala asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to admit an international complaint against the State of Guatemala, the systematic practice of this crime for the Conflictor internal armed conflict, particularly in the period 1983-1985, and the subsequent denial of justice, concealment and impunity.
The petition was filed in November 2005 and received the appropriate action. In June of 2006 just past, after having requested an extension in the delivery of international response to this demand, the State of Guatemala submitted to the Commission a report that does not undermine the foundations of the case brought against him by the 20 families Guatemalan and Myrna Mack Foundation.
The State simply to move a report on steps taken by the Public Ministry, the body responsible for criminal prosecution and criminal investigation management, whose research concludes que no progress in investigating the crime of enforced disappearance, the whereabouts of victims and potential perpetrators.
This report, in addition, suggests that the organs of justice remain ineffective in the treatment of cases of violation of human rights, as happened during the years of armed conflict, as happens even in modern times, part of the complaint to the Commission.
"Impunity remains a cloak harbors equally crimes against humanity committed in the past and the thousands of facts of common and organized crime, domestic violence, corruption and others, affecting Guatemalan society" , in the complaint.
Relatives of the disappearedios evidence, including the famous "Death Squad", a military intelligence document out detailing at least 183 cases of enforced disappearance and the fate that allegedly ran some of the victims: death under torture and extrajudicial death, refers the complaint.
Relatives of victims seek truth, justice and reparation.
Thus, this international condemnation is a form of reparation to the memory of victims of enforced disappearance, because through this action we remember the life that was cut and at the same time helping to rebuild a stage of history national.
The idea is to get into the American system of justice denied in the area locto, in order to force the state to take measures to prevent acts that have offended the world society to occur again.
The search for justice before the Commission is a path bound, by the organs of justice in Guatemala have not had the will nor the ability, over more than two decades, to determine the whereabouts of the disappeared clarify the incident and punish those responsible.
As has happened in cases of genocide and other crimes against humanity, in which it has resorted to universal justice, the relatives of the 20 victims of the Death Squad have been exhausted domestic remedies, given the overwhelming impunity obstructing the administration of justice in this and other mucof which occurred in March 1985.
ruled Guatemala during this period General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores, framed within the bloodiest years of armed conflict and where the counterinsurgency strategy was further developed with the aim of annihilating the enemy called their efforts on specific domestic intelligence apparatus that had a wide range of operational action in urban areas as a document of the Journal addresses the Military ..
Thus, since 1983, the actions of the intelligence turned to orchestrate campaigns against some secret underground organizations in the capital.
The unveiling of the so-called Military Journal May 20, 1999, 22 years later, sheds light on the sense.
is a military intelligence document dating from 1983 and is further evidence that Guatemala was orchestrated from the highest levels of the state structure, planned and developed a strategy of enforced disappearances in the urban areas during 1983 and 1985 against a specific sector of Guatemalan society identified as "internal enemy."
Of the 21 cases of this report, 20 are included in the Official Military remaining closely associated with it.
According to the CEH, during the internal armed conflict was a total of 61 thousand 648 human rights violations, of which 6 000 156 are cases of enforced disappearances, with the responsibilityables mainly Guatemalan security forces.
While the Draft Report of the Inter-Diocesan Recovery of Historical Memory (REMHI) registered a total of 3 000 893 victims of enforced disappearance, of which 3 000 244 (83.5%) were attributed to state forces (Army and paramilitary groups).
So far no case of enforced disappearance has been cleared by the Guatemalan justice system, including the 21 cases mentioned above.
clandestine prisons
The missing were locked up, tortured and held incommunicado in secret jails, which formed a secret network of detention, which could be private homes, their own military bases, detachmentsmilitary or police facilities.
features such detention is that they were secret, illegal and inaccessible to the control of the competent judicial authorities.
When the clandestine centers were within the military bases had strict instructions on their use by the Intelligence, refers the document addresses the Military Journal.
Intelligence operatives in the military Journal
The information contained in the paper is consistent with what is now known about the operations of the Guatemalan military intelligence.
operatives initiated to monitor and capture of the victim, who was imprisoned in secret prisons for the formerall of those executed have been delivered by the security forces to the families of the victims and those transferred or in cases where no indication of the fate of the victim, these remain largely disappeared until the date of filing the recent complaint.
This means that approximately 87% of victims of the Journal remain Military absentee status disappearance.
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