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TOP-SECRET-Operation Sofia: Documenting Genocide in Guatemala
Army occupation of Río Azul model village, Nebaj, Quiché. Photograph courtesy of Jean-Marie Simon, Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny. Operation Sofia: Documenting Genocide in Guatemala National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 297 September 10, 2011, Washington, DC – The Guatemalan army, under the direction of military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt, carried out a deliberate…
TOP-SECRET: Ex-Kaibil Officer Connected to Dos Erres Massacre Arrested in Alberta, Canada
Graduation ceremony at the school for the Guatemalan Army’s elite Kaibil, counterinsurgency unit formed in the mid-1970s. [Photo © Jean-Marie Simon] Ex-Kaibil Officer Connected to Dos Erres Massacre Arrested in Alberta, Canada Declassified documents show that U.S. officials knew the Guatemalan Army was responsible for the 1982 mass murder National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book…
TOP-SECRET: Ex-Kaibil Officer Connected to Dos Erres Massacre Arrested in Alberta, Canada
Graduation ceremony at the school for the Guatemalan Army’s elite Kaibil, counterinsurgency unit formed in the mid-1970s. [Photo © Jean-Marie Simon] Washington, D.C. – January 20, 2011 – Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes was arrested in Alberta, Canada on January 18, 2011 on charges of naturalization fraud in the United States. Sosa Orantes, 52, is a…
27 Years Later, Justice for Fernando García
Family snapshot of Nineth de García, daughter Alejandra and husband Fernando before his abduction on February 18, 1984. Photo from “Guatemala, The Group for Mutual Support,” An Americas Watch Report. [Courtesy of Jean-Marie Simon] Update on the conviction of the Guatemalan police officers responsible for Fernando García’s “forced disappearance” Washington, D.C., February 18, 2011 –…
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