2 Buenaventura Manuel Jerónimo are witnesses in the proceeding for genocide before Guatemalan Courts against the high command of the Government of Efraín Ríos Montt; Juan Manuel Jerónimo and Buenaventura Manuel Jerónimo also testified at the public hearing on April 23, 2004 before the InterAmerican Court regarding the case of the Plan de Sánchez Massacre. Salvador Jerónimo Sánchez, Prudencia Cajbón, and Faustina Tojom attended said public hearing as observers; b) as witnesses they are also members of the Asociación para la Justicia y Reconciliación (AJR). This civil association is an ancillary complainant in the cases for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes being heard by the Guatemalan courts against the high military commanders of the military regimes of former Presidents Fernando Romeo Lucas García and José Efraín Ríos Montt. In effect, on February 21, 2002 Salvador Jerónimo Sánchez testified before the Public Prosecutor’s Office on the massacre that took place in Plan de Sánchez; c) during the early hours of Saturday, July 17, 2004, one day before remembrance of the Plan de Sánchez massacre that took place on July 18, 1982, Salvador Jerónimo Sánchez was inside his house, resting, and he heard a motorcycle park in front of his house at 01:00 a.m. Afterwards, at 03:00 a.m. he heard steps in his yard. Fearing for his personal safety, he did not get up to verify what was happening. At 06:15 a.m. he got up and went out into the yard and saw a cardboard box by the window. He then went for Buenaventura Manuel Jerónimo and Juan Manuel Jerónimo, and together they opened the box. Inside there was a folder with the following message: “FOR SALVADOR P.B. A GIFT.” Inside the folder there was an anonymous letter with a death threat that read: ““SALVADOR YOU WILL SOON BE KILLED FOR BEING A WITNESS OF THE PLAN DE SANCHEZ MASSACRE AND FOR BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THE JUDGMENT AGAINST THE STATE OF GUATEMALA. THIS IS THE PRIZE YOU WANTED. SOON YOU WILL BE MURDERED. HAPPY JULY 18th ANNIVERSARY;” d) Salvador Jerónimo Sánchez, who knows some military codes, because he had to do his military service in the eighties, immediately knew that “P.B” meant “Peligro Bomba” [Bomb Threat], for which reason he called the police and they found a tear gas grenade inside the box. Members of the National Civil Police asked Salvador Jerónimo Sánchez whether anyone in the community worked for the police, as this type of weapons are used exclusively by the police; and e) the steps taken in connection with said facts were: i. On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 09:00 o’clock [Salvador Jerónimo Sánchez] called the Police at Rabinal to report the facts. On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 09:50 the police reached the village to gather the evidence, conduct the first investigations, and make a report on the facts, which was sent to the magistrate at Rabinal. ii. At approximately that same time he called [the Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos] and reported the fact. He also requested their support as legal counsel. iii. In response to a request by [the Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos] and by members of the community, Hugo Martínez, who