NO MORE POLITICS & BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH WAR CRIMINALS IN GUATEMALA (OR ANYWHERE)
A letter sent to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture calling for an investigation into the role that Guatemalan presidential candidate ex-General Otto Perez Molina played in the commission of genocide, torture and disappearances in Guatemala during the worst years of State repression and terrorism in the 1980s.
also, the list of individuals and organizations that are supporting this investigation.
Please re-send this letter to your own organizations, listservs, social networks, etc. Please send copies to your own politicians and media, to keep critical attention on the forth-coming (undemocratic) "elections" in Guatemala.
The underlying point to all of this, we believe, is that of no business and politics as usual with war criminals in Guatemala (or anywhere). This goes for governments, companies, investors, the World Bank, the United Nations, etc.
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Sr. Juan Méndez, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture
OHCHR, United Nations
CH-1211 Ginebra 10, Suiza
sr-torture@ohchr.org
tdawson@ohchr.org
scronin@ohchr.org
Dear Sr. Juan Mendez,
Below, you will find a list of organizations and individuals, as follow-up to the Allegation Letter that was submitted to you on July 6, 2011, concerning allegations against ex-General Otto Perez Molina (now presidential candidate in Guatemala) of being an intellectual and material author of torture, disappearances and genocide in Guatemala.
The people and organizations listed below support the Allegation Letter, and will follow this investigation closely, given the universal importance of seeing justice done for war crimes and other crimes against humanity, given the global demand for 'No more politics & business as usual with war criminals in Guatemala (or anywhere)'.
We look forward to hearing from you about your investigation.
Thank-you,
Grahame Russell, co-director, Rights Action
info@rightsaction.org / 1-860-352-2448
Cc:
Annie Bird, co-director, Rights Action, annie@rightsaction.org
Jennifer K. Harbury, Human Rights Attorney, jharbury@gmail.com
Kelsey Alford-Jones, Director, Guatemala Human Rights Commission-USA, kajones@ghrc-usa.org
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ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS SUPPORTING THIS INVESTIGATION
GENOCIDE-DISAPPEARANCES-TORTURE ALLEGATION LETTER - SIGN-ONS
Grahame Russell, Annie Bird, Karen Spring of Rights Action [Canada & USA]
Guatemala Human Rights Commission [USA]
Jennifer Harbury [USA]
Varias companeras y companeros de Guatemala quienes - por razones de seguridad - no pueden usar sus nombres
Joe Emersberger, Canadian Auto Workers Union [Canada]
Katherine Maich, UC-Berkeley, Member, UAW 2322 [USA]
Phyllis Ponvert [USA]
Bill Howson, Amicus Foundation [Canada]
Blase Bonpane, Office of the Americas [USA]
Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca [Canada]
Julie Webb-Pullman, Wellington Zapatista Support Group [New Zealand]
Oberlin, in Solidarity with El Salvador (OSES) [USA]
Greg Norman, Guatemala Solidarity Project [England]
Will Lotter, DRCS, Davis, CA [USA]
Francisco Ramirez Cuellar, SINTRAMINERCOL y FUNTRAENERGETICA [Colombia]
Organización Comite Hondureño Acción por la Paz (COHAPAZ) [Honduras]
Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras, COPINH [Honduras]
Aaron Pollack [Mexico]
Pável Uranga, Comunicador popular [Ecuador]
Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña, OFRANEH [Honduras]
Otros Mundos, AC/Amigos de la Tierra [México]
Convergencia de Movimientos de los Pueblos de las Américas (COMPA) [Mexico]
Movimiento Mexicano de Afectados por las Represas (MAPDER) [Mexico]
Red Mexicana de Afetados por la Minería (REMA) [Mexico]
Esteban (Stephen) Bartlett, Misiones Agricolas [USA]
Consejos Indigenas Nahuatl y Chorotegas [Nicaragua]
Associação de Favelas de São Jose dos Campos, Angela Aparecida da Silva [Brasil]
Dra. Gabriela Sánchez Gutiérrez, Instituto Mora, Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo [México]
Centro Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [Cuba]
Ruben Solis, Southwest Workers Union [USA]
Greg Grandin, New York [USA]
Maribel Rivas Vasconcelos [Mexico]
Environmental Network for Central America [England]
PAPDA [Haïti]
CNA Colombia (Coordinadora Nacional Agraria/Vía Campesina) [Colombia]
Rosalba Piazza [Italy]
GALFISA. Grupo América Latina, Filosofía Social y Axiología [Cuba]
ZigZag Young Women's Resource Centre [Australia]
Comite de los Pueblos Qeqchis, El Estor [Guatemala]
Dra. Coralia Gutiérrez Álvarez, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla [México]
Asociacón Bufete Jurídico Popular de Rabinal [Guatemala]
Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy, La Crosse, Wisconsin [USA]
Kirstin Büttner [Germany]
Kathrin Zeiske [Germany]
Hondureños por la Democracia (Hondurans for Democracy), Washington DC [USA]
Clara Ferri [Mexico]
Guillermo Almeyra, CLACSO, profesor universitario y periodista [Argentina]
René Reeves, Professor of History, Fitchburg State University, MA [USA]
Renate Rueb, Berlin [Germany]
Consejo de Mujeres Nahuat [Nicaragua]
Bret Thiele, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [USA]
SOA Watch [USA]
Susan Campbell, Retired professor of Caribbean history [Canada]
Kathleen O'Hara [Canada]
John Conrad Jones [Canada]
Kathleen Dill [USA]
Barbara Robertson [USA]
Sasha Wood, Social Worker [Canada]
Latin American-Canadian Solidarity Association of London [Canada]
Colombia Action / CT [USA]
Frente de Defensa Miguelense, FREDEMI [Guatemala]
Latin American Solidarity Committee, Buffalo [USA]
Judith Deutsch, Science for Peace, Toronto [Canada]
MMM Americas [Varios paises de las Americas]
Sharon Hallas [Mexico]
Roxana Hart [USA]
Peter Murphy, SEARCH Foundation [Australia]
Walter Sherwood [USA]
CODECA [Guatemala]
Lynda Sullivan [Ireland]
COECOCEIBA-Amigos de la Tierra [Costa Rica]
Harry Smaller, Toronto [Canada]
Dieter Misgeld, Professor, University of Toronto [Canada]
John Sniegocki, Professor, Xavier University, Cincinnati [USA]
Margarita María Muñoz Conde [México]
Phyllis Creighton, Toronto [Canada]
Fondazione Guido Piccini per i Diritti Dell'uomo - Onlus [Italia]
Laura Westra, Professor, University of Windsor [Canada]
Ottmar Zimmer, Guatemalagruppe Nürnberg / Nuremberg [Germany]
Jennifer N. Costanza, Brown University, Providence [USA]
Entrepueblos [Guatemala]
Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de las Victimas de la Violencia, en las Verapaces, Maya Achí, ADIVIMA [Guatemala]
Companero, Consultor, Desarrollo Humano y Rural [Guatemala]
Salvadorian Canadian Association of Ottawa and National Capital Region - ASCORCAN [Canada]
Guatemala Working Group, Ontario Public Interest Research Group, McMaster [Canada]
Dr. Edwin E. Daniel, FRSC, Victoria [Canada]
Laura Barker [Canada]
Centro de Reflexiones Nim Poqom, Cobán [Guatemala]
People for Peace, London [Canada]
International Human Rights Clinic, Western New England University School of Law [USA]
Janis Alton [Canada]
Debra Stoleroff, Plainfield, VT [USA]
Lenca Federation and Maya Lenca House [Australia & New Zealand]
Grupos de mujeres, Totonicapán [Guatemala]
Pam Kryskow, BC [Canada]
Nadine HAAS, GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, Hamburg [Germany]
Denis Doherty, Communist Party of Australia [Australia]
Red de solidaridad con el Pueblo de Guatemala en Zurich [Suiza]
Larry Wartel [Canada]
Eline Ghysels, Broederlijk Delen [Bélgica]
Educators for Peace and Justice, Toronto [Canada]
Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism, Toronto [Canada]
Jennifer Cornally [Ireland / Guatemala]
Lidia Climent [Espana]
Marta Hernandez [Canada]
Erin Beck, Brown University, Providence [USA]
Harold Garrett-Goodyear, Professor, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley [USA]
Christiane Treeck y Grupo Esperanza e.V. [Alemania]
Margaret A Greene, Nova Scotia [Canada]
Steve Porter, UNBC [Canada]
Blanca Blanco Abellan [Espana, Mexico]
Bruce Miller, Professor, Western New England University School of Law [USA]
Educators for Justice, Kitchener, ON [Canada]
Camp Micah: Leadership for Peace and Justice, Bancroft, ON [Canada]
Collettivo Italia Centro America - CICA [Italia]
Therese Gerstenlauer [Alemania]
MISEREOR [Alemania]
Kerstin Thies [Germany]
Zeljko Crncic [Alemania]
Franziska Scheidemantel [???]
Verena Rassmann [Austria]
Nicole Cruz de Echeverría Loebell [Alemania]
Steffen Lehnert, periodista [Alemania]
Tony Weis, Professor, University of Western Ontario, London, ON [Canada]
Hanna Reich [Alemania]
Anka Mason, Northampton, MA [USA]
James Goldie, Vancouver, BC [Canada]
Elena Doreen Eifel [Alemania]
Renate Gerstenlauer [Alemania]
Mildred Menchu-Johnson, Louisville, KY [USA]
James Flynn [USA]
Matthias Fichtenbauer, Viena [Austria]
Wolfgang Fischer, Vendersheim [Alemania]
Ruth Beckers, Brussels [Belgium]
Arne Devriendt, Meise [Belgium]
Michel Kluyskens, Brussels [Belgium]
Valentin Franck [Alemania]
Fabian Flues [Alemania]
Harald Ihmig [Alemania]
Plataforma de Solidaridad con Chiapas y Guatemala, Madrid [España]
Agnes Effland [Alemania]
Leticia Hillenbrand [Alemania]
Uli Stelzner [Germany/Alemania]
Diana Kordon, Equipo Argentino de Trabajo e Investigación Psicosocial -EATIP-, Argentina
Lucila Edelman, Equipo Argentino de Trabajo e Investigación Psicosocial -EATIP-, Argentina
Darío Lagos, Equipo Argentino de Trabajo e Investigación Psicosocial -EATIP-, Argentina
Daniel Kersner, Equipo Argentino de Trabajo e Investigación Psicosocial -EATIP-, Argentina
Hermann y Brigitte Schmidt, Munich [Alemania]
Susan Hermenau, Berlin [Alemania]
Dr. Andrea Althoff [Alemania]
Katharina Otto [Alemania]
Liv Patte [Alemania]
Bianca Oebel [Alemania]
Stephan Beuting [Alemania]
Stella Thuns, Berlin [Alemania]
Andrea Berger [Alemania]
Jasmine Bischke [Alemania]
Dr. Anja Lieb [Alemania]
Ute Simmerling, Oficina de la Paz Goettingen [Alemania]
José Mejia-Urzua [Canada]
Andreas Henrichs [Alemania]
Stefanie Kern [Alemania]
Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation Committee of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Kingston, Ontario [Canada]
Verna C. Sanchez, Northampton, MA [USA]
Adrian Busuttil (Canada)
Laura Mallinson (Canada)
Stephenie Chambers [Canada]
Chelsea Leigh-Ann Rose, Delhi, Ontario [Canada]
Andrea Lammer, Leipzig [Alemania]
Kelly Williamson, Fanshawe College in London, ON [Canada]
Steven Lopez, Fanshawe College in London, ON [Canada]
Claudette Bois, University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) [Canada]
Sofie Steinberger [Alemania]
Eve Routhier [Canada]
Malte Neuser [Alemania]
Yhanic Mauricette (Saint Lucia)
Suad Fadous [Canada]
Lorraine and Charles McNeil [Canada]
Andrea Bertele, Munich [Alemania]
Ella von der Haide, Pullach [Alemania]
Undine Schmidt [Germany]
Maria Pauthner [Alemania]
INKOTA-red ecuménica, Berlin [Alemania]
La Asociación Elote de Alemania [Alemania]
Alexander Fischer [Alemania]
R. Swoboda [Alemania]
Magdalena Blazek [Alemania]
Lydia Koblofsky [Alemania]
Astrid Camille Winchester, Fanshawe College, London, ON [Canada)
Oliver Rentmeister [Germany]
Carolina Hernández Casasfranco, London, ON [Canada]
Katharina Gallo Ramírez, Leipzig [Alemania/Germany]
Candy Castellon [Canada]
Susanna Sutter [Suiza]
Celia Peral Espina [España]
Dr Jochen Scheidemantel, Wurzburg [Alemania]
Guatemala Partnership Committee of the Congregational Church of Needham, MA [USA]
Alessandro Chiodaroli, Piacenza [Italia]
Hans Leipold [Alemania]
Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network [Canada]
Movimiento De Trabajadores/as Compesinos/as (MTC), San Marcos [Guatemala]
Mildred Menchu-Johnson [???]
Ursula Storcks [Germany]
Vilma Caceres [Canada]
Yvonne Massoth [Germany]
Selvas.org [Italia]
Callum McNeil [Canada]
De Comunidad a Comunidad, Bellingham,WA [USA]
Gabriela Dieguez, Milwaukee WI [USA]
Leonor Hurtado [USA]
Guatemala Solidarity Committee Boston [USA]
Peter H.A.M. Otten, Maastricht
Maya Alvarado
H.I.J.O.S. [México]
Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala
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Grahame Russell
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