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- From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: EXECUTION IMMINENT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.100614.8835@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /* Written 9:29 pm Aug 17, 1992 by ghrc in cdp:carnet.alerts */
- /* ---------- "EXECUTION IMMINENT" ---------- */
- URGENT ACTION !!!!URGENT ACTION!!!
-
- GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Date: August 17, 1992
-
- According to the Guatemalan Government's confirmation a few hours
- ago, tomorrow, on August 18th, Army corporal NICOLAS GUTIERREZ
- CRUZ, will be executed. Gutierrez has been condemned to the
- death penalty for carrying out the massacre of four indigenous
- campesinos in Solol on January 17th of this year in the place
- known as Ciudad Peronia.
-
- The CDHG supports the abolition of IMPUNITY. We advocate an
- investigation into every case of human rights violation and the
- trial and punishment of those responsible for such crimes against
- humanity. However, in the case of the massacre at Ciudad Peronia,
- we feel that the two who have been accused, Gutierrez and Eliseo
- Suchit, also a soldier and still at large - both of them
- indigenous of low rank in the Army - are "scapegoats" for the
- crime. Those truly responsible are the officials who gave the
- order for the massacre, who have not even been investigated. With
- the death by firing squad of Gutierrez Cruz, they are trying to
- hide those truly responsible, eliminating one of the witnesses
- given orders from above. The aim is to give an appearance that
- justice is being done and that impunity is beginning to be
- suppressed.
-
- IMPUNITY in Guatemala has complex mechanisms in fact and in the
- law. The death by firing squad of an Army corporal, of humble and
- indigenous roots, does not do away with such mechanisms. This
- procedure constitutes but one more crime of discrimination and an
- injustice which leaves those really responsible untouched.
-
- We exhort WITH EXTREME URGENCY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND
- GRASSROOTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS that, given the time
- pressure, you demand of the Guatemalan Government TO SUSPEND THE
- EXECUTION of NICOLAS GUTIERREZ CRUZ in order to proceed with an
- impartial investigation of those truly responsible for that
- massacre. For the above, an APPEAL FOR CLARIFICATION AND FOR
- FURTHER DETAILS should be made to the Supreme Court of Justice,
- based on Articles 718-19 in the Penal Code; and a DEFENSE MOTION
- before the Supreme Court of Justice on Constitutionality, based
- on Articles 265 and 272 of the Guatemalan Constitution.
-
- SEND URGENT MESSAGES TO:
-
- Presidente de la Presidente de la
- Corte Suprema de Justicia Corte de Constitucionalidad
- Lic.Juan Jos Rodil Peralta Lic.Jorge Mario Garc!a L.
- Centro C!vico,21 Calle & 11 Ave. entre 9a. y 10a.calles
- 7a. Av., Z.1 Guatemala, Guatemala
- Guatemala, Guatemala
-
-