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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 22. november
2011 / Timeline November 22, 2011
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21. November 2011, 23. November 2011
11/22/2011
Protester mod the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security and
Cooperation, USA.
11/22/2011
Remains of two of
Guatemala's death squad diary victims found in mass
grave
Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala identifies them
through DNA
Washington, D.C., November 22, 2011 - The bodies of two men whose
disappearance in 1984 was recorded in the notorious Guatemalan
"death squad diary" have been located on a former military base
outside the capital and positively identified through DNA testing,
according to the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala,
which announced its findings in a press conference this
morning.
The remains belong to Amancio Samuel Villatoro and Sergio
Saúl Linares Morales, both captured by security forces in
separate incidents and never seen by their families again. Nothing
about their fates was known until 1999, when the National Security
Archive publicly released the death squad diary, a military logbook
created in the mid-1980s to record the abduction, secret detention
and deaths of scores of people, Villatoro and Linares among them.
In their entries, the document contains a coded reference to their
executions. Today, 27 years after their disappearance and 12 years
after the publication of the logbook, that information has been
confirmed.
"It is an astonishing development in a case that has come to
symbolize the impunity and injustice that persist in Guatemala 15
years after its bloody civil conflict ended," commented Kate Doyle,
National Security Archive Senior Analyst. Among the 200,000
civilians killed during the war, there were an estimated 40,000
victims of forced disappearance - men, women and children seized in
the cities and conflictive zones by state security or paramilitary
forces, interrogated, tortured and secretly executed, their bodies
dumped in remote sites or buried in mass graves. Few of the remains
of the disappeared have ever been found and only three cases have
led to prosecutions resulting in the conviction of former military
or police officers.
11/22/2011
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