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Guatemalan anthropologisthang was to death in downtown Guatemala City on0 by two unknown assailants. One of her killers was subsequently identified by an eyewitness as being Guatemalan army "especialista" (sergeant) Noel deBetet'a)') Alvarez. Beteta, who at the time of the murder was assigned to the Presidential General Staff, was convicted of the crime in2 andyear sentence. he victim's sister, has continued to push the Guatemalan court system to charge "the intellectual authors" of the crime, which she maintains was politically motivated because of her sister's work with displaced people. Mack was allegedly killed to prevent revelations of details concerning military abuses in the highland areas at the height of Guatemala's civil war.
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thatLxnree army officers in the Presidential General Staff must stand trial for the alleged involvement in the Mack murder. These individuals were not accused of direct participation in the murder, but for being the intellectual authors of the crime- One of the officers indicted was Lieutenant Colonel Juanarrera, the then deputy chief of the office of Presidentialn the Presidential General Staff. Beyond the Mack case, Oliva was also implicated
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