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From: Margarita Lacabe <marga@derechos.org>
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Dear Friends:

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Program is proud to announce the
publication of a new report:  _State Violence in Guatemala, 1960-1996:
A Quantitative Reflection_, by Patrick Ball, Paul Kobrak, and Herbert
F. Spirer.   This reports culminates more than five years of AAAS
assistance to the International Center for Human Rights Research
(CIIDH) in Guatemala gathering, processing, and inputting over 19,000
cases of gross human rights violations from dozens of press and
documentary sources and over 5,000 interviews with witnesses and
survivors.

In the book, we analyze 37,255 documented political killings and
forced disappearances, more than 99% of which were committed by agents
of the Guatemalan state.  The report has three goals: first, to
publish findings from the CIIDH database project; second, to recognize
the efforts of the many human rights groups to make the Guatemalan
public and the international community aware of the atrocities as they
happened; and third, to establish the State's responsibility for the
overwhelming majority of Guatemala's recent political violence.

The book was published simultaneously in English and Spanish, and it
was presented to the Commission for Historical Clarification in
Guatemala and to the Guatemalan public on January 14 (the electronic
databases were given to the Commission in March 1998).  We have been
pleased by the book's reception and the favorable press coverage.

To make the text and data more accessible to the international public,
we have created a page on the Web with both the full text and graphs
of the report, as well as a page allowing users to create their own
statistical tables.  This site is under construction, but the text and
a working model of the data page are available now.  Visit the site at
http://hrdata.aaas.org/ciidh.

For copies of the English or Spanish editions of the book, contact
Gretchen Richter (grichter@aaas.org, 202 326 6787).  The cost is $10
plus shipping and handling for individuals and organizations outside
of Guatemala, and 30 quetzales for groups in Guatemala.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Please repost this message to appropriate lists.



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