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Myrna Mack Chang
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Myrna Mack Chang was a Guatemalan anthropologist who dedicated her work to investigating the situation of poor, indigenous campesinos (rural peasants) and the effects on them of the country's civil conflict. On September 11, 1990 she was assassinated in Guatemala City, stabbed to death, as she left her office.
Myrna Mack's sister, Helen Mack, subequently formed the Myrna Mack Foundation, a human rights group focused on strengthening Guatemala's legal system and enabling citizens to file suit against the intellectual authors of human rights violations. The case has run into a number of legal difficulties. While the actual killer has been sentence to 25 years in jail, his superiors have not been brought to trial because the judge has removed himself from the case. |