Guatemala Human Rights and the Myrna Mack Case (2003) / Chapter Skim
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, National Academy of Eng~neenug (NAE) , and Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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Myrna Mack had been doing research on and writing about the unjust treatment of the internally displaced people in Guatemala, and she was murdered two days after a report for which she was principal researcher, Assistance and Control: Policies Toward Internally Displaced Populations ir' Guatemala, was published by Georgetown University Press. Myrna Mack, who earned a master's degree in an~ropology in England at the University of Manchester, was a consultant to the ~ter-Amencan Commission on Human Rights arid had academic ties with several universities in the United States, including Georgetown University and the University of California at Berkeley.
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He was convicted in February 1993 and sentenced to 25 years in pnson, as well as 5 additional years for an unrelated incident. At that trial the judge rejected the prosecution's petition to leave open the proceedings against the alleged "intellectual authors" of the cnme, who were three military officers: General Edgar Augusto Godoy Gaitan, Colonel Juan Valencia resorb, and Colonel Juan Gu~lermo Oliva Carrera.
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That second mission had five objectives: to assess the human rights situation of scientific colleagues; to bring attention to the cases of collea~es who had been murdered for political reasons or who had been abducted and never reappeared (with a particular emphasis on Myrna Mack) ; to meet with Guatemalan officials; to lend support to the courageous efforts of the Mack family to bring to justice those responsible for the planning and execution of the murder of Myrna Mack; and, it was hoped, to bring a measure of protection to other vulnerable arid threatened colleagues.
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The objectives of the third mission included attending a portion of the trial of the three former m~litary officers accused of ordering the murder of Myrna Mack. West-Eberhard and Panish spent the week of September 9-13, 2002, in Guatemala City.
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to meet with scientists and scholars and visit academic research arid education centers to establish closer personal ties and gain a better understanding of the work of scientific colleagues and the circumstances under which it is conducted; (5) to learn how members of the international scientific community might assist their colleagues in Guatemala to carry out their work in a safe and secure environment; (63 to present what they learn during their visit to the officers and members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine; and (7)
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