RE MYNRA MACK CHANG CASE

Created: 1/1/1993

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THE HYRNA HACK CHANG CASE: ARMY INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS ARE MUCH CLOSER KNIT THAN THEIR WON-INTELLIGENCE OFFICER COLLEACUES AND ARE KNOWN WITHIN THE ARMED FORCES AS "LA COFRADIA."

THIS TERM REFERS TO THE COUNCIL OF ELDERS WHICH IS FOUND IN HOST RURAL. INDIGENOUS VILLAGES IN GUATEMALA.

THE UNIVERSALONG ARMY INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS TO THE

EAR PRISON TERM PASSED DOWN TO ACCUSED HYRNA HAHACK MURDERER

NOEL DEWAS THAT HE WAS CONVICTED FOR

POLITICAL REASONS AND THEY REMAIN HOPEFUL THE CONVICTION CAN BE

OVERTURNED ON APPEAL. HE SAID ARMY INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS ARE

CONVINCED BETETA WAS INNOCENT AND THE COURT WAS FORCED TO

CONVICT HIH BECAUSE PRESIDENT SERRANO WAS PRESSURED BY

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RICHTS ORGANIZATIONS, SOME OF WHICH ARE

WITTING, AND OTHERS UNWITTING TOOLS OF THE URNG. HE ALSO

EXPLAINEO THAT INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS BELIEVE THE URNG IS BEHIND

OUNG'S EFFORTS TO PUSH THE GUATEMALA COURTS TO

PROSECUTE AS "INTELLECTUAL AUTHORS" THE MILITARY OFFFICERS WHO

WERE IN BETETA'S CHAIN OF COMMAND AT THE TIME OF THE MURDER.

THEY SEE THIS AS PARTEW URNG TACTIC TO ATTACK THE ARMY

AS AN INSTITUTIONOLITICAL WAR FOUGHT IN THE NAME OF

HUMAN RIGHTS.

_ c',rt THAT WITHIN THE GUATEMALAN OFFICER

CORPS THEREENERAL FEELING OF OUTRAGE AGAINST.

MILITARY FOR DENYING GUATEMALAN OFFICERS THE EXPECTED SIX

TRAINING SLOTS TO ATTEND THE SPANISH LANGUAGE COMMAND AND

GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE AT FT. BENNING, GEORGIA. THE OFFICERS

ARE NOW QUESTIONING WHY THEY SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN ANY KIND OF

COUNTERNARCOTICS OPERATIONS, WHICH THEY BELIEVE BENEFIT ONLY

THE UNITED STATES. THEY BELIEVE COCAINE CONSUMPTION IS ONLY A

PROBLEM INHAT THE GUATEMALAN ARMY HAS ASSISTED THE

U.S. IN ATTEMPTING TO RESTRICT THE FLOW OF NARCOTICS THROUGH

GUATEMALA TO THE NORTH, AND THAT. MILITARY DOES NOT

RECOGNIZE THE GUATEMALAN MILITARY'S ROLE

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