REPORT RE THE INITIAL IMPACT OF THE BAMACA CASE

Created: 7/1/1995

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DENIED IN FULL

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Approved for Reteasa Palo

THE WATEMALAN MILITARY IS NOW ON THB OrPENSIVB WITH. ACCUSATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.

MffiOgBTliS INITIM- IMPACT CP THB Br"PATJITThAMACAJ ) VELASQUEZ CASH. AS PRESENTED By. CITIZEN SPOUSE. HAS EXTREMELY EPP2CTIVB; HOMma, rfMBlEsM^^THE CONTINUED SUPPORTEMBER OP THtfll.S. ILeJs ANDUBSTANTIAL PUNDINC. HAP CASE APPEARED TO BE LOSING STEAM. * THE BAMACA CASH IS TYPICAL OP THE CONFRONTN S THAT THB GWTEMALAN MILITARY WILL HAVE TO PACE IN TH'i FUTURE,THE CONFLICT HAS CHANGED PROM AN INSURGENCYDIRTY HAR* OK ACCUSATIONS AND DENUNCIATIONS. ALTHOUGH CITIZEN SPOUSE HAD REQUESTED IS DAYS TO EXCAVATE THB AREA AROUND THE *LAS CAS AN AS* DETACHMENT IN SAN MARCOS DBPARTMRNT IN .HER SEARCH FOR BAMACA'S REMAINS, 4HHrsSHeVHb% SHE IS SSARCHINO POR ANY AND ALL EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING WITH TKB INTENTION OP DESTROYING THB GUATEMALAN MILITARY.

ilT WAS UNFORTUNATE THAT ARMY SPECIALIST

NBRYRIZAR)) GARCIA. ALIAS "COP/A, DECLARED THAT THB GUATEMALAN ARMY HAD ATTEMPTED TO HIDE THE BODY OP BAMACA BY PLACING THB BODY OP ANOTHER INSURGENT AT HIS SUPPOSED GRAVE SITE. tTfMRRR'MGOVERNMENT OF GUATEMALA HAD BEENTTHINGWITHINITS POWER TO HELP. GOVERNMENT RESOLVE THE BAMACA CASS. TO INCLUDE ALLOWING THB UNITED NATIONS HUMAN

right's verification mission in guatemala (hinugua) to participate m'th* investigation and by providing army OPriCIALS TO hinugua to pars statements. ip bamaca' s BODY Was not pound at the gravbsitb, it has bbcausb thb GUATEMALAN national revolutionary union (URNO) had snitched thb bodibs. not the army.

rr nTl'rTiTMMMBWMh the army crzrrzd upi zarbse.vt himself

a: THE HICKAFL DKVIWB) ) CASK is

sTirriS-TJIKa, mUm THE r'lXAL OUTCOME OP THIS CASH IS VERY IMPORTANT BBCAUSB IT DEALS NOT KITH THE KILLING OF AN INSURGENT, AS IS THE CASS OF BAMACA, BUT WITH THE MURDER.

disbands!

"AJtY CIVIL DEFENSE COKMITTKBS (CVDC)

.will be

dbr THE

MILITARY WILLTRONG SAY im WHAT is INCLUDED tkb ACCORD ON TKB ROLE OP THE HILITARY EMOCRATIC SOCIETY

WHICH WILL be CONSIDERED by THE GUATEMALAN PEACE COMMISSION

DURING TKB SUMMZS

MQpHl SrlRS for WRONGS COMMITTED DOKINO THE INSURGENCY HAD BEEN RATI PIED by THE GUATEMALAN CONGRESS 6 AS PART OP THB SIGNINGEW CONSTITUTION, AND AGAIN IN

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