Within the next few weeks it is very likely that army officers facing war crimes charges will push through a de facto amnesty in Guatemala. This will occur either by removing attorney general Claudia Paz, by an illegal congressional amnesty, or through a court ruling cancelling international human rights law. If any of these three things happen, then war crimes cases will come to a very abrupt end.
We ask Barack Obama to communicate with President Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala and make it clear that the United States government will not tolerate any illegal amnesty, direct or indirect, for crimes against humanity, or the bad faith criminalization of human rights leaders.