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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 03:41 AM
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4. More from the article immediately above:
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In his cable, McFarland acknowledged that Perez Molina was a former head of military intelligence and commanded the army detachment in the Department of Quiche during the conflict. These facts alone are sufficient to demonstrate Perez Molina's participation in war crimes - certainly as an intellectual author, and quite possibly as a material author; almost 300 massacres were carried in the Quiche department during the worst years of State repression and genocide.

PEREZ MOLINA IMPLICATED IN MURDER, TORTURE AND MASSACRES

In addition, journalists have implicated Perez Molina in the 1994 killing of Judge Edgar Ramiro Elias Ogaldez, who was involved in the investigation of the murders that year of two Mayan Presbyterian pastors, a crime for which military officials were being investigated, and also of the 1998 murder of Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi.

There have also been legal denouncements made to Guatemalan authorities in other cases that implicate Perez Molina. That he has never been prosecuted is not surprising given that no soldier has yet been prosecuted for the genocide and other war crimes during Guatemala's armed conflict which resulted in over 250,000 victims, according to the United Nations sponsored truth commission, ... at least 96% of those at the hands of State forces. The majority of victims were Mayan people and the overwhelming majority of victims were unarmed men, women and children.

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Silent halocaust. Unbearable.

Please take a moment to search images for "Quiché Massacre Guatemala" or use this link:
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSND_enUS411US412&q=Quiche+massacre+Guatemala&biw=1092&bih=553

or: http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSND_enUS411US412&q=Guatemala+massacre&biw=1092&bih=553

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/media/images/41861000/jpg/_41861064_guatemala_203.jpg

Exhumed mass grave victims, removed to be buried properly.
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