Tag Archive: The Guatemala Solution

Xuncax v. Gramajo – International Human Rights and Solidarity – CCR Docket Fall 1992

Author: Michael Ratner July 31, 1991

While accepting a diploma in June 1991 during commencement ceremonies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Guatemalan ex-Defense Minister Hector Gramajo was stopped and served legal papers charging that he designed, ordered, implemented and directed a program of massacres, murders,…
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International War Crimes

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Xuncax v. Gramajo and Ortiz v. Gramajo – CCR Historical Case

Author: Michael Ratner June 11, 1991

http://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/xuncax-v-gramajo-and-ortiz-v-gramajo Xuncax v. Gramajo and Ortiz v. Gramajo are two civil damages suits filed on behalf of Guatemalans, all Kanjobal Indians who were brutalized themselves, lost loved ones, and lived in highland villages demolished by Gramajo’s soldiers. They charge former…
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International War Crimes

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