The Myrna Mack Case: Challenge to Military Impunity in Guatemala

Myrna Mack, an anthropologist, was assassinated by a Guatemalan army sergeant in 1990. Her sister Helen has sought justice against those responsible, both the sergeant and his superiors, in Guatemalan courts for the last 11 years. Recently, the court handed down a landmark decision, convicting a colonel of ordering the murder and sentencing him to 30 years in prison, after convicting the sergeant in 1993.