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El Quiché. According to the testimony of the victim's widow, the three
men dragged him from his home, threatening to kill her as well if she
did not stay in the house, and killed him just behind the house. The
victim was nearly decapitated. According to information received by
the Commission, CERJ members in the village had received threats
from civil patrollers and military commissioners because of the CERJ's
resistance to the civil patrols.
(ii)
At 7:30 a.m., April 15, 1991, CERJ President Amílcar Méndez was
threatened and assaulted in Guatemala City by four plainclothesmen
with dark sunglasses. The men approached Mr. Méndez as he was
leaving the restaurant Pollo Campero on the Calzada Roosevelt in Zone
11 of Guatemala City. One of them told Mr. Méndez he was going to
die, and two tried to grab him. The intervention of passersby,
however, caused the men to leave Mr. Méndez and flee the scene.
(iii)
According to information received recently by the Commission,
anonymous flyers have been distributed in Chunimá calling the CERJ a
guerrilla front and naming residents of the village who belong to the
organization.
(iv)
Finally, on June 13, after the police had tried and failed for the second
time to arrest civil patrol chiefs Perebal-Ajtzalam III and León-Lares,
Manuel Perebal-Ajtzalam III and his brother, Tomás Perebal-Ajtzalam,
attacked a member of the GAM in Chunimá, apparently as a reprisal.
Perebal-Ajtzalam III and his brother raided the house of GAM member
Tomás Velásquez-Ajtzalam and beat and kicked him savagely. PerebalAjtzalam III reportedly fired his rifle in the air to further intimidate his
victim.
6.
A list of the names of those for whom provisional measures by the Court is
requested is as follows:
- Diego Perebal-León, witness to the abduction of Sebastián Velásquez-Mejía,
witness to the murder of his father Juan Perebal-Xirúm and brother Manuel PerebalMorales, was hospitalized with severe injuries as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted
on February 17, 1991. Mr. Perebal-León has been repeatedly threatened by the civil
patrol chiefs of Chunimá and was among five CERJ members who fled the village
from October 6 - November 16, 1991. Mr. Perebal-León, who is now paralyzed, and
the surviving members of his family, have taken refuge in the CERJ office in Santa
Cruz del Quiché since early March 1991.
- José Velásquez-Morales, cousin of Sebastián Velásquez-Mejía, a complainant in the
criminal case against his killers, and the man who replaced Mr. Sebastián Velásquez
as the CERJ delegate in Chunimá, has suffered repeated threats and harassment at
the hands of the army and civil patrols and was among five CERJ members who fled
Chunimá from October 6 - November 16, 1990.
- Rafaela Capir-Pérez, the common-law wife of Sebastián Velásquez-Mejía and the
original complainant in the criminal case against his killers. Ms. Capir-Pérez and the
couple's children fled to the GAM office in Guatemala City on October 6, 1990, and
returned to Chunimá on November 16, 1990.