62nd
General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 to October 3, 2006
Camino Real Hotel
Reports and Resolutions
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IMPUNITY-GUATEMALA
Resolution of the 62nd General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 – October 3, 2006
WHEREAS
a friendly agreement
was reached on March 2, 2001 between the Guatemalan government and the Inter
American Press Association through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
in the case of the journalist Irma Flaquer who was murdered on October 16, 1980
WHEREAS
among other commitments assumed by the Guatemalan government, the judicial process
was reopened, and in 2001 the attorney general’s office named Gustavo
Adolfo Barreno as special prosecutor in the case
WHEREAS
although the IAPA since 2001 has made available to the attorney general’s
office all the documentation it has gathered about the investigation and repeatedly
urged the special prosecutor’s office to try harder to make new inquiries
and name the masterminds and the hit men
WHEREAS
Eduardo Heribrto Mass Bol, correspondent of Radio Punto was murdered on September
10 in Cobán, Alta Verapaz, in northern Guatemala, and Government Miister
Carlos Vielman and Attorney General Juan Luis Florido, have promised to undertake
a prompt and thorough investigation
WHEREAS
Principle 4 of the Declaration of Chapultepec says “Freedom of expression
and of the press are severely limited by murder, terrorism, kidnapping, pressure,
intimidation, the unjust imprisonment of journalists, the destruction of facilities,
violence of any kind and impunity for perpetrators. Such acts must be investigated
promptly and punished harshly
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
THE IAPA RESOLVES
to ask the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights to ask the Guatemalan government to show results
of the reopening of the case of Irma Flaquer
to insist that the Guatemalan authorities investigate the murder of Mass to
determine who is responsible and the motives.
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