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1. PRENSA LIBRE AND OTHER INDEPENDENT DAILIESOUEN REPRESENTING ALL SECTORS WOMEN Of GUATEMALA PUBLICLY DIRECTED MEMORIAL OF FACTS AMD PETITION OF REDRESP TO CHIEF ARMED FORCES CARLOS ENRIQUE DIAZ AS FOLLOWS 1
A. INHUMAN TORTURE IN COURSE OFFICIAL JUDICIAL INVESTS CATION OF PERSONS SUSPECTED IMPLICATION SALAMA REVOLT*
R. KYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF OMAN CORDOVA CERNAPOMPOUS, SHOOT ARREST HIS HOSE BY LARGE NUMBER SECRET POLICEj
C. BRUTAL ASSASSINATION FOUR PRISONERS IN SALAt'A JAIL WO SAID TO BE LEADERS REVOLT. MEMORIAL STATES THATAS BEENDENIED BY POLICE CHIEFS BUT NO OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIONEREAS VICTIMS REITERATED TORTURE CHARGES AND THEIR PHYSICAL CONDITIONS WITNESSED BY THIRD PART|ES| THAT POLICE EXPLANATION (FACT B) THAT CORDOVA CERNA ESCAPED FROM TPO GUARDS EN ROUTE SALAMA FOR TRIAL FANTASTIC RECAUSEi
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ONLY RUDIMENTARY COtVON SENSE THAT IF LARGE NUMBER POLICE NEEDED ARREST HIU, POLICE WOULD NOT TRUST TWO GUARDS TAKE HIM 8ALMU]
A PERSON OFFICIALLY CONSIDERED AS HEAD OF SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENT WOULD NOT BE TAKEN SALAMA VIA LONG EXPENSIVE LAND ROUTE WHEN OTHER PRISONERS OF MINOR IMPORTANCE FLOWN SAME DESTINATION LflEBIXfllr-HU< jlLSSUC CHUG rcnvlCCP^INEPTNESS OR COMPLACENCY FARCICAL POLICE EXPLANATION TRUE, STILL UNBELIEVABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE THAT POLICE WHOSE EFFICIENCY REPEATEDLY PROVEN SHOULD CLAIM THEY UNABLE LOCATE
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(4) RIDICULOUS THAT CIVIL GUARD SHOULD WAIT ANY PERIOD AT ALL WHETHER5 ORAYS BEFORE ORDERING RECAPTURE; THAT, REF FACTLL GUAT PUBLIC SECTORS HAVE LONG AND HARSHLY BRANDED AS BARBARIC THE APPLICATION, BY REGIMES OF FORCE, THE "LEY(SHOOTING OF PRISONERS ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTING ESCAPE) AND HOW IN TRUE DEMOCRACY KILLING FOUR PRISONERS IN CELL ALLEGEDLY TRYING BREAK PADLOCK TO ESCAPE BE TOLERATED| THAT THESE FACTS CONSTITUTE FLAGRANT VI0LAT30NS MOST ELEMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND MOST FUNDAMENTALGUARANTEES) THAT IN VtEW INDIFFERENCE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES TO SAID VIOLATIONS HE COLONEL DIAZ IS REQUESTED BY THE WOVEN SIGNING
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MEMORIAL TO ABANDON HIS EXCESSIVE SCRUPULOUSIS ONLY EXCUSE FOR HIS OTHERWISE UNEXPLAINABLEEELING CERTAIN THEY INTERPRET SENTIMENTS PEOPLE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND TO FULFILL HIS OATH REPEATEDLY TAKEN BEFORE CONGRESS TO DEFEND CONSTITUTION AND SEE VIOLATORS THEREOF PUNISHED? THAT HE STOP THE TORTURES AND RESOLVE MYSTERY CORDOVA CERNA DISAPPEARANCE? THAT HE DEFEND CONSTITUTION SO THAT GUATEMALAN PEOPLE MAY RECOVER CONFIDENCE IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS LOST AS RESULT REPEATED VIOLATIONS THAT INSTRUMENT.
COMMITTEE SEVERAL WOMEN CALLED AT COL DIAZ OFFICE TOABOVE MEMORIAL BUT WERE TOLD HE IN NEW ORLEANS (AIR TRAVEL LIST SHOWS DEPARTUREAS SCHEDULED RETURN GUATEMALAPRIL, WIFE HAS BEEN REPORTED AS STATING HE VISITING MOTHER-IN-LAW. . SUGGEST PLAY UP FLEEING FROM WRATH OF WOMEN.
PRENSA LIBREPRIL REPORTED GROUP WOMEN INCLUDING MOTHER COLCO JAVIER ARANA (ANT1COfVUNI ST CHIEF OF ARMED FORCES ASSASSINATED BY PROCOMMUNIST GANGSTERS IN PRESENT GOVT)MEMORIAL TO WIFE PRESIDENT ARBENZ ASKING HER STEP OFF PEDESTAL AND PUT SELF INES OF VICTIMS SALAMAj HOPING SHE NEVER FSNDS SELF IN POSITION NOT KNOWING WHEREABOUTS HER HUSBAND OR CHILDREN? STATING THAT AS WIFE AND MOTHER SHE CAN INFLUENCE HUSBAND TO PUT END
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TO TORTURES AND THUS DFMONfTRATE THAT BEHIND HER POMP AND PRIDE LIES SOULMAN DISPOSED TO EASE HURTS OF OTHERS NOT ONLY FOR HEF OWN SAKE BUT FOR HER CHILDREN OTHERWISE GOD ALONE KNOWSILL BE THEIR FUTURE SINCE THERE EXISTS JUST IMPLACABLE LAV OF COMPENSATION FROM IWICH NONE ESCAPE. MEMORIAL STATES THOUSANDS OF MOTHERSLE DECISIVE GESTURE BE MERCIFUL, TO STRIVE TO END THIS ERA OF TERROR, MISERY, PERSECUTION, TORTURES, ASSASSINATES CAUSEDEW GODLESS TRAITORS, SO THAT CHILDREN OF TOMORROW MAY REMEMBER HER WITH AFFECTION AND HISTORYORTHY PLACE FOR HER. SAME SOURCE STATES SAME GROUP ALSO DIRECTED MESSAGE SOLIDARITY TO WIFE OFCERNA EXPRESSING GREATEST SORROW UNABLE REMEDY HER GRIEF AS WOULD LIKE; HOPING LAW MAY BE FULFILLED AND HUSBAND FREEDOR.itWT BITTER TRUTH BE TOLD SINCE PUBLIC EXPECTS ANYTHING FROM SUCH BEASTSj RAISING HUMBLE PRAYERS OF FAITH AND HOPE TO GOD THAT PEACE RETURN TO HOMES OF TORTURED.
4. LA HORAPRIL REPORTED BAR ASSOCIATION (COLEOIO DEFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES OF ENTIRE LEGAL PROFESSION) APPEAL TO MINISTER OF GOVT AUGUSTO CHARNAUD MACDOWALD AS FOLLOWS: ACTION HOT POLITICAL IN NATURESURPATION RESPONSIBILITIES BUT CONSIDERED NECESSARY TO SECURE STRICT FULFILLMENT CONSTITUTION
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ANL PERFORM LEGAL DUTY DEFEND ONE OF ITS MEMBERS. REVIEWED FACTS: A. PRIL UNDER SEIZURE ORDER ISSUED BY JUDGE GON-ZALO RAUL CASTRO HOUSE OF CORDOVA CERNA SEARCHED AND LATTER SEIZED BY EXCESSflVE NUMBER POLICE,
8. SEVERAL DAYS LATER FAMILY MADE PETITION HABEAS CORPUS AND INFORMED BY DIRECTOR CIVIL GUARD CORDOVA CERNA CAPTURED UNDERSALAMA JUDGE BUT HAD FLED CUSTODY AND PETITION OUT OF ORDER <>
C, THATPRIL WHEREABOUTS CORDOVA CERNA NOT KNOWN, THAT BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT INTERVIEWED DIRECTOR OF CIVIL GUARD RCGSLIO CRUZ WER WHO REBTEREATED STORY| THAT BAR ASSN FINDS STORY FLIGHT IMPOSSIBLE BELIEVE} THAT EVEN IF STORY TRUE NO SATISFACTORY EXPLANATION OFFERED FOR LACK KNOWLEDGE WHEREABOUTS SO MANY DAYS) THAT ARTICLEONSTITUTION OBLIGES STATE PROTECT HUMAN EXISTENCE,RIGHTS LIFE, LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND SECURITY OF THE PERSON, THE HONOR AND POSSESSIONS} THAT IF THESE RIGHTS IGNORED, PEOPLEHREATENED BY VERY PERSONS SWORN UPHOLD CONSTITUTION} THAT ASSN CANNOT ACCEPT AUTHORITIES EXPLANATIONS AND PROTESTS MOST ENERGETICALLY IN PRESENT CASE OR RECURRENCE THEREOF) THAT IN NAME OF HIS OATH AS LAWYER AND FOR REPUTATION OF COUNTRY AND ITS INSTITUTIONS MIN OF GOVT CLARIFY DISAPPEARANCE AND FULFILL LAWS OF REPUBLIC
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5, SUGGEST PLAY UP THAT ALL INDICATIONS CORDOVA CERNA PUSHED ACROSr HONDURAN BORDER BY GUATEMALAN POLICE AFTER INDICATED PRESSURES, THAT IN FACT NEVER ESCAPED. (FAMILY HAS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED IF IN HONDURAS).
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