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Harbury denounced the Guatemalan government at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva in March 1996 and filed a civil-rights suit against officials in the CIA, State Department and National Security Council, according to her book...
...Guatemalan government has refused to accept the judgement and the case has been sent to the Inter-American Court in Costa Rica and is set for an international trial in early 1998, Pertierra said...
Proceeds from the book will go to the Everardo Foundation, which was founded by Harbury to help implement the Guatemalan peace accords signed on Dec. 29, 1996, Pertierra said. The Guatemalan peace accords marked the close of 35 years of bloodshed in Guatemala and ended the longest civil war in Latin America...
...This case showed the international community that the Guatemalan army needed to be purged," Pertierra said...
Despite Harbury's efforts and book, the Guatemalan government has not turned over Everardo's remains...