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Appendix C
Meetings and Events Amended by the Mission Delegates
Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Morton Pamsh participated
in several private meetings arid two public tributes to Myrna Mack
in the course of Heir week In Guatemala City.
Private Meetings
Guatemalan Herman Rights Nongovernmental Organizations
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Meeting with Helen Mack, arranged by a delegation of the
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and the
Myrna Mack Foundation (Fundacion Myrna Mack), who
kindly included us when we arrived on short notice to at-
tend the trial.
· Meeting organized by the Rigoberta Menchu Foundation,
which featured lectures by the Legal Area Coordinator of
the Myoma Mack Foundation—Mana Eugenia Solis Gar-
c~a—on the history and state of the Guatemalan justice sys-
tem and lectures by two prominent human rights leaders,
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Gua-
temala), who spoke on recent events that, in our view,
could affect the safety of researchers in Guatemala, and
Jose Ramos-Horta (East Tumors, who compared the human
rights situation In his country with that of Guatemala.
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Guatemalan Scientific Colleagues
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MA CK CASE
· Meeting with members of the research staff of the Guate-
malan Association for the Advancement of the Social Sci-
ences (AVANCSO), Clara Arenas Bianchi (Executive Di-
rector), Matilde Gonzalez, Gustavo Paima, and Eugene
Incer (arranged by LASA delegation and Myrna Mack
Foundation)
Private meeting with AVANCSO Director Clara Arenas
U.S. Government and United Nations
Meeting with two representatives 0 fthe U .S. Embassy in
Guatemala the outgoing Human Rights Officer, Rian
Harris, and her replacement, Katherine Read
· Briefing by Dr. Edelberto Torres Rivas, Guatemalan advi-
sor of the United Nations Development Program (I~DP),
who spoke on the current situation in Guatemala as it re-
lates to prospects for democracy and to human rights (ar
ranged by LASA delegation and Myrna Mack Foundation)
Public Tributes In Memory of Myrna Mack
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Early morning ceremony on September 11' 2002, com-
memorating the 12th anniversary of the murder of Myrna
Mack, in keeping with a tradition o f her friends and col-
leagues—to visit He site of her murder on that day each
year to place floral tributes near a plaque in front of the
building that fonnerly housed the of fices of AVANCSO.
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APPENDIX C
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(This event was attended by 50 - 75 people, most of whom
then walked to the courthouse to attend the teal.)
A mass on the evening of September ~ ~ to honor the mem-
ory of Myrna Mack, at which there was standing room
only, held in the San Sebastian church next to the fonder
residence of the murdered bishop, Juan Jose Gerardi
Conedera.
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