REPORT RE FAILURE OF GUATEMALA GOVERNMENT IN HANDLING CONSEQUENC

Created: 5/1/1995

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[DECIDED THAT AS ic AS THE ARMED CONFRONTATION HITH GUATEMALAN INSURGENTS IS ONGOINGEACE AGREEMENT NOT SIGNED. THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT CANNOT POSSIBLY HANDLE THE CONSEQUENCESHOROUGH AND TRUTHFUL INVESTIGATION INTO THE MURDER. CITIZENEVINE1) OR ANY OTHER CASES INVOLVING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES BY ARMY PERSONNEL. SUCH AS THE CASE OF GUATEMALAN NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY UNION (URNC) COMMANDER EFRAIH BAMACA}J VELASQUEZ. ALIAS EVERARDO. ASESULT MMMMMMMM^^MMMMMMBMMMM^mM^ttiwBWBMBMmILL TO THE GUATEMALAN CONGRESS WHICH WOULD POSTPONE THE INVESTIGATIONS UNTIL AFTER A

PEACE AGREEMENT IS SIGNED AND THE ARMED CONFRONTATION CCMES TO AN END.

EVENTS THREATEN

THE MILITARY AS AN INSTITUTION CANNOT COPE WITH THE FACT THAT SOKE ILITARY OFFICIALS WHO are SUSPECTED of being IKVOLVTD IN THE0 OEVIKE MURDER COVER -UP WOULD HAVE to BE PUNISHED ANDfro* thef IHEW JkCTZOtfS. nil 3EVINK CASE__WAS COMPAREDROVERBIAL PANDORA'S DOX.THE CASE IS PURf-UED AND THE OFFICERS INVOLVED PUNISHED, SUBSEQUENT ACCUSATIONS. WHETHER TRUE OR FALSE, MOULD HAVE to be INVESTIGATED AS "WELL. OURSE MCLD CAUSE TOTAL CHAOS IN THE MILITARY, AND COULD STABILITY IN GUATEMALA.

HAS AN UNSPOKEN BUTOr POSSIBLE ACTIONS BY RADICAL

ELEMENTS OF THE AftMY. THE FEAR APPEARED TO BE SHARED BY PROGRESSIVE MILITARY OFFICERS

THERE IS NO WAY TO SATISFY THE. GOVERNMENT, EVEN IF THE DEVI HE CASE IS RESOLVED, SIKCE. GO VERNMFJfT WOULp THEN MASS COMPLAINTS fi&d SEMAl.Ta ON OTHER CASES . flBH^HHBHH^feU S. GOVERNMENT ONCERTED EFFORT TO DtSTSoY THE GUATEMALAN ARMY AND HELP THE GUATEMALAN INSURGENCY GAIN POLITICAL SPACE IN GUATEMALA. EVEN flEFOPE A PEACE AGREEMENT 15 SIGNED. THE DECLARATIONS BY FORMER ARMY INTELLIGENCE STAFF ig-2}

MEMBER ANGEL NERY RIZAR)) GARCIA ARE THE RESULTLOT BT. EMBASSY IN GUATEMALA, WHOSE STAFF MEMBERS ARE DETERMINED TO DESTROY THE GUATEMALAN MILITARY. (GUATEMALA CITY FIELD COMMENT; ONAY THE GUATEMALAN PRESS CORPS PRINTED ALLEGATIONS BY URIZAR THAT THE ARMY CAPTURED EFRAIN BAMACA ALIVE, AMD THAT URIZAR SAW BAMACA AT THE SANTA ANA BERLIN DETACHMENT IN COATEPEQUZ. QUXTZAL7ENANGO DEPARTMENT. URIZAR ALSO ALLEGED THE ARMY KILLED CRISTOBAL UCKE1) PEREZ, ALIAS ORMER INSURGENT WHO HAS COLLABORATING WITH THE ARMY, AND BURIED CHE RAVE IDENTIFIED AS BAMACA' S IN AN EFFORT TOEGEND THAT BAMACA WAS KILLED IN ACTION,)

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