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  Efraín Ríos Montt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They wanted to integrate the campesinos and indigenous peoples into the state, declaring that because of their illiteracy and "immaturity" they were particularly vulnerable to the seductions of 'international communism.' Great stress was laid on national power.
On June 9, the other two members of the junta were forced to resign, leaving Ríos Montt as the sole leader, head of the armed forces, and minister of defense.
Later, however, the Supreme Court suspended his campaign for the presidency and agreed to hear a complaint brought by two right-of-center parties that the general was constitutionally barred from running for president of the country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Efrain_Rios_Montt   (2652 words)

  
 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2000 - Guatemala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Two former police officers sentenced to death in 1996 in the so-called Patrol No. 603 case remained on death row pending the outcome of several appeals by their defense attorney.
Volume Two is a compilation of over 50 key declassified documents said to be representative of the thousands of documents collected during the group's "Guatemala Documentation Project," which was begun in 1994 to support the Historical Clarification Commission's efforts to catalog the devastation of the 36-year internal conflict.
Two presumed suspects were identified, but the judge provisionally closed the case against them pending the discovery of further evidence.
www.usemb.se /human/2000/west/guatemala.html   (21196 words)

  
 UN Commission on Human Rights - Report on Human Rights Situation in Guatemala (Dec 94)
Two days later she was received by Professor Claudio Grossman, a member of the Inter-American Commission.
There are two aspects to the question of summary or extrajudicial executions in Guatemala: the present situation and questions arising out of the discovery of secret graveyards in the 1980s.
Moreover, two of the Colotenango witnesses, Arturo Méndez and Alfonso Morales, both leading members of CUC, were arrested and charged with the murder of a PAC commander on 15 September 1993.
hei.unige.ch /humanrts/commission/country51/15.htm   (18939 words)

  
 Guatemala Solidarity Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Two people died in a protest in Huehuetenango department, and many were injured.
The trial of two of the alleged attackers of journalist José Rubén Zamora, the president of the elPeriodico newspaper, came to an end in February.
Of the two on trial one was found guilty and the other absolved due to lack of evidence.
www.guatemalasolidarity.org.uk /news/2005_april.htm   (1271 words)

  
 Articles - Dos Erres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Dos Erres (the name literally means "2R's", originating from two brothers called Ruano who received the original land grant) is a village in the Petén department of Guatemala.
To maintain the pretence that they were a guerrilla column, they kept two teenaged girls for the next few days, raping them repeatedly and finally strangling them once they were no longer useful.
He acknowledged the deaths of 226 victims at the hands of state agents, humbly asked for forgiveness on behalf of the state, and presented survivors' groups with a cheque totalling USD $1.82 million.
www.sundeq.com /articles/Two_Erres   (470 words)

  
 TITLE: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Guatemala 2001
The police officers claimed that colleague Alfredo Saso Perez killed Osorio, and that two of their superiors--Commissar Virgilio Ramos and Chief of Operations Diones Arriaza Solis--used death threats and false testimony to organize a coverup to impede the prosecutor's investigation; however, the judge provisionally closed the case for lack of evidence.
Two days later, he was released after his lawyer successfully argued that he was immune from prosecution under the Law of Reconciliation.
However, significant increases to the defense budget, the naming of retired and active duty military officers to senior positions in the Ministry of Government, and the failure to dismantle the EMP were criticized broadly by civil society and the international community as troubling failures.
www.terrorismcentral.com /Library/Government/US/StateDepartment/DemocracyHumanRights/2001/WesternHemisphere/Guatemala.html   (21800 words)

  
 Letters & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
For the past two years they have been living underground in Guatemala, but after they testify in court the identities of the two men will be known and there will be no place to hide.
The two witnesses who were part of the military unit that committed the massacre claim that they did not participate in the killing.
Because it is testimony by two former military who were eyewitnesses to the massacre this is an extremely critical case.
www.eecs.umich.edu /~pavr/harbury/archive/1998/101598.html   (1035 words)

  
 .: Print Version :.
Two justices of the court confirmed the decision to The Associated Press, but did not offer further details.
Now null as a result are arrest warrants authorities had issued against 16 soldiers, statements from massacre survivors and testimony from two military personnel who allegedly participated in the massacre.
The two soldiers were later given political asylum outside the country for their own protection.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/02/04/news/nation/17_14_342_4_05.prt   (356 words)

  
 Guatemala: Victims of 1982 army massacre at Las Dos Erres exhumed
Two of the bodies were positively identified as belonging to Albino Israel González Carías who was 22 years old and Cristóbal Aquino.
The settlement at Las Dos Erres was founded in 1978 by two peasants, Federico Aquino Ruano and Marcos Reyes (the name, Dos Erres, was taken from the initials of the men's surnames) in the muncipality of La Libertad in the western part of Petén.
The inhabitants of Las Dos Erres had seen planes flying low over the land and had heard the sound of gunfire in the distance but it was after the army massacre at Josefinos that the community began to feel afraid.
www.amnestyusa.org /justearth/document.do?id=807C7BB9E12CB280802569A500715774   (4563 words)

  
 Dos Erres Trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
On March 17, 2000, after years of struggle by FAMDEGUA (Families of the Detained and Disappeared of Guatemala), the Dos Erres massacre case was finally initiated in the court of First Instance of San Benito Peten, Guatemala.
Two former soldiers who had witnessed the massacre gave their testimonies and then departed Guatemala for a foreign country that will grant political asylum to them and their families.
Dear X: I am writing to ask you to exercise all of the influence you may have to support the Dos Erres massacre case, which is currently in the Court of the First Instance of San Benito Peten.
www.nisgua.org /articles/DE-UA.html   (664 words)

  
 file:///A:/Las Dos Erres doc.txt
Between the 6th and 8th of December 1982, at two o´clock in the morning, a large group of armed men entered the parcel and removed men, women and children from their houses and segregated them into various locations within the community.
At two o´clock in the afternoon, on December 8th, the soldiers began to gather together the women with their children, as well as the men and line them up saying that it was to "vaccinate" them.
It was called "Dos Erres" (two R´s) as a result of the surnames of the first two people in charge of controlling and distributing the lands whose names were Federico Aquino Ruano and Marcos.
www.guate.net /famdegua/two.htm   (3209 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Guatemala: Human Rights Developments
In September, a judge ruled that the case against Gen. Juan Guillermo Oliva and two former colonels for the 1990 murder of anthropologist Myrna Mack should remain in the civilian courts, rejecting the defense's call for the case to be placed under military jurisdiction.
The gunmen forced two of the union's leaders to make a radio announcement calling off a work stoppage, planned for the next day to protest the company's failure to reinstate 918 workers who had been fired the previous month in violation of a collective bargaining agreement.
In December 1999, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that two police officers were responsible for the 1990 deaths of five street youths and that the Guatemalan government had failed to protect the rights of the victims.
www.hrw.org /wr2k1/americas/guatemala.html   (2082 words)

  
 Timeline Guatemala
In 2000 two witnesses gave evidence that some 300 men, women and children were killed, tortured and raped by specialists called kaibiles.
Two more accords were left to be signed and the final treaty was scheduled to be signed in Guatemala City on Dec 29.
Two members of the kidnapping ring, Los Pasaco, escaped from prison but Luis Amilcar Cetino Perez and Tomas Cerrate Hernandez were executed in 2000.
timelines.ws /countries/GUATEMALA.HTML   (7383 words)

  
 Sept. 2000: Guatemala: Human rights groups under attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Less than two weeks after the attack on Balan, on September 4, heavily armed men entered the offices of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared of Guatemala (FAMDEGUA) in Guatemala City and assaulted members of the staff.
The Dos Erres case is being prosecuted in a Guatemalan court and is one of the atrocities for which the government has recently taken responsibility.
On July 21 two indigenous rights leaders were murdered near Lake Atitlán in Sololá by a group of ten hooded men dressed in fatigues who intercepted their car as they left for work.
www.rtfcam.org /report/volume_20/No_4/article_2.htm   (2135 words)

  
 Guatemala. In: Amnesty International Report 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The recommendations of two recent human rights reports were not acted on and impunity continued to prevail for most human rights violations perpetrated during the civil conflict.
In August, two men with petty criminal records charged with the May 1999 kidnapping and murder of businessman Edgar Ordóñez Porta were acquitted.
In May, two members of the ODHAG investigating team received death threats after the case judge, who has herself received threats and been followed, ruled that three high-ranking military officers should stand trial for the murder, along with the priest who shared Bishop Gerardi's residence, and their housekeeper.
web.amnesty.org /web/ar2001.nsf/webamrcountries/GUATEMALA?OpenDocument   (1861 words)

  
 Act Now to Support Dos Erres Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Dos Erres community has been fighting for years to ensure that justice is served in the murder of almost 300 of their friends, family, and neighbors.
In addition to those murdered, the soldiers kidnapped two women who they later raped and killed, and two children, one of whom was later adopted by one of the soldiers.
Dos Erres represents nothing less than Guatemala's quest for establishing the Rule of Law and ending the impunity for crimes against humanity.
www.nisgua.org /articles/dos_erres_cas1.htm   (460 words)

  
 GRC: Van der Heem
A more luxereous one is the Erres KY536 depicted on the right, in 1953 among the first generation of radios that could receive the FM band.
Dating Erres radios is usually easy, because (since 1941) the first two digits of the type number equal the year.
Erres radios were quite fashionable and were used in the higher circles, as for example shown on the advertisement poster on the right (circa 1935).
www.cs.uu.nl /~gerard/RadioCorner/Articles/HeemLab.htm   (904 words)

  
 americas.org - Soldiers Help Massacre Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Two former members of an elite army unit have become state witnesses in the case of 300 unarmed people massacred in the village of Dos Erres in 1982.
Two lieutenant colonels and two captains had been arrested by April 11.
The two witnesses and their families are living in exile.
www.americas.org /item_9436   (180 words)

  
 WORLD IN BRIEF (washingtonpost.com)
The Constitutional Court ruled that 16 soldiers accused of killing 226 unarmed civilians in the village of Dos Erres at the height of Guatemala's 36-year civil war should be exempt from prosecution.
Two men were killed northwest of Frankfurt, Germany, after their car slid out of control on an icy rural road and struck a school bus carrying 45 children, ages 12 to 16.
In Albania, two people were found dead Thursday after an avalanche in the southern village of Zall Dardha, police said.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A64968-2005Feb4.html   (547 words)

  
 National Catholic Reporter: Ex-soldiers tell of 1982 massacre in Guatemala
Retired college football coach Will Lotter of California is at the center of a milestone case in which two former members of an elite Guatemalan army unit have turned state's witnesses, naming other officers in the massacre of 300 unarmed villagers in 1982.
This is what makes the Dos Erres case "unusual" among those few cases coming to court that stem from events during the violence.
By April 11, two lieutenant colonels and two captains on active duty were under arrest.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_25_36/ai_62087432/pg_1   (1339 words)

  
 Act Now to Support Dos Erres Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Some of the soldiers proceeded to rape women in front of their families and then one by one, led them peacefully to a communal well, clubbed them, and then threw many of them alive into the well where they died.
As the soldier left the area, after massacring more then 250 innocent and unarmed civilians, they kidnapped two women who they later raped and killed, and two children, one of whom was later adopted by one of the soldiers.
The Dos Erres massacre is only one of over 400 massacres committed upon the civilian population during the civil war.
nisgua.org /articles/act_now_to_support_dos_erres_cas.htm   (504 words)

  
 Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
CLAS offers three types of affiliations: Research Associate for visiting faculty, Post-doctoral Fellow for scholars who have received their Ph.D.s within the last two years, and Pre-doctoral Fellow for scholars who are conducting research for their dissertations.
Fernando Calderón is from Bolivia, where he teaches at two universities in La Paz and is a Human Development Adviser for the United Nations.
She will be affiliated with CLAS through December 1999 and with the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology for the next two years.
socrates.berkeley.edu:7001 /People/visiting/fall00-spring01   (1315 words)

  
 Resource Information Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
To maintain the appearance of being a guerrilla column, they kept two teenage girls for the next few days, raping them repeatedly and finally strangling them once they were no longer useful (CEH, Feb. 1999).
Under the terms of the Peace Accords, the army was to be restricted to defense from external attack, which would preclude involvement in the sort of domestic police actions proposed by President Arzú.
This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
www.ailc.com /services/asylum/ric/documentation/GTM00003.htm   (1087 words)

  
 Serres - A brief acquaintance with the city   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
erres is the capital of the prefecture of Serres and one of the most important commercial centers (ca 80,000 inhabitants.) in Macedonia, situated at a low elevation (70m).
To the North the hills and the first heights of the Vrondou mountain chain embrace the city which has as its typical landmark the hill of the Acropolis (Koulas), while to the South it overlooks the fertile plain, through which the Strymon flows some 24km away.
There are also five daily newspapers, five weekly newspapers, two monthly magazines and an annual diary including the events that took place in Serres.
pages.stern.nyu.edu /~panos/serres/short_ct.html   (438 words)

  
 americas.org - Constitutional Court Annuls Dos Erres Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Constitutional Court has annulled nearly all actions to date in the Dos Erres case, in which sixteen army soldiers are accused of massacring approximately 300 people in the town of Dos Erres, Libertad, Peten, in December 1982.
The case against the sixteen army officials, undertaken by the First Criminal Court of San Benito, Peten, began in 1994, when relatives of the victims managed to obtain an order to exhume the remains of their family members from the well the soldiers had thrown the bodies into after the massacre.
The key evidence the Court has annulled includes the detailed testimonies of two Kaibiles who came forward, full of remorse, and admitted participating in the massacre, and the testimony of a youth who survived the massacred.
www.americas.org /item_17809   (487 words)

  
 GUATEMALA: Crying out for justice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This development in the Dos Erres case came as the international community is also following closely the proceedings now underway to identify those responsible for the killing of Bishop and human rights advocate Mons.
The Dos Erres case has been in the courts for five years now and it is already a year since arrest warrants against the 16 soldiers were issued.
Two days before, he had released ODHA's four-volume report on the atrocities committed, primarily by the armed forces, during Guatemala's civil war.
www.amnesty.org.uk /deliver/document/13263   (835 words)

  
 Asbestosi
In the two first months of 1977, 220 asbestosis cases were diagnosed, which 72 cases were of total labour incapacity.
According with the franquism laws, up 175 asbestos particles by cubic centimetre when in the main part of countries only was admitted two fibres by cubic centimetre in the work place”.
The Social Court No. 6 of Madrid condemned to Uralita, S. to compensate with 19 millions of pesetas to the family, widow and two children of a company worker died due to a pleural mesothelioma connected with the exposition to the asbestos fibres.
www.ictisp.com /~msanchez/english/affected.htm   (993 words)

  
 INTRODUCTION
While not universally accepted, especially by parts of the military and the business sector, the REMHI and CEH reports are widely acknowledged as authoritative sources of information on the atrocities committed during the internal armed conflict.
The delegation chose these cases because they were representative as to the actors involved, the scope of alleged atrocities, and the actions or lack thereof taken to resolve them following the end of the internal armed conflict.
The data, compiled in large part by the two truth commissions, the United Nations-led Commission for Historical Clarification (“CEH”), and the Catholic church-sponsored Recovery of Historical Memory Project (“REMHI”), indicate that approximately 150,000 people were killed and approximately 50,000 people were “disappeared” over the course of the conflict.
www.geocities.com /guatemalaproject/report.html   (2614 words)

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