Panel to Search for Missing Army Files in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala’s defense minister on Monday announced the creation of a commission to investigate the whereabouts of two military files missing from documents the armed forces were ordered to hand over to a court probing the bloodiest phase of the Central American country’s 36-year-long civil war.
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Last Wednesday, the defense minister delivered a set of documents to a court hearing a case involving senior officers accused of torture and mass murder.
But upon noting that the files on two offensives were missing, the judges refuses to accept the package.
Valenzuela on that day told President Alvaro Colom that the plans for Operations Sofia and Ixil had disappeared and might have been destroyed.
Because the minister did not comply with the order of the Constitutional Court to turn over the complete files, activists and victims of the war filed a criminal complaint against him.
The files sought by the judiciary cover a series of campaigns in the late 1970s and early ‘80s against the leftist rebels who battled a succession of mostly military regimes for more than three decades.
Human rights organizations say the plans for those offensives expressly contemplated the annihilation of the civilian population in areas perceived as sympathetic to the guerrillas.
Defendants in the current court case include former strongmen Efrain Rios Montt and Oscar Mejia Victores, who have also been indicted in Spain for mass murder and state terrorism.
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The U.N.-sponsored panel concluded the Guatemalan security forces were responsible for 93 percent of the human rights violations that occurred during the conflict, which claimed more than 200,000 lives.Most of the dead were Indian peasants. EFE
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