Guatemala Compensates
Victims
Alvaro Colom, President
of Guatemala, handed
today economic
assistance to 392
victims of the armed
conflict in the western
department of San
Marcos.
Compensation totals
7,716 000 quetzals (a
million dollars) and
will benefit families
affected by
extrajudicial
executions,
disappearances and human
rights violations during
wartime.
"Let us turn the tragic
page of history, not for
a legal matter, not for
the peace agreements,
but for the love to our
children and
grandchildren and let us
not pass this pain on
new generations", said
Colom.
The head of state will
also hand a 700 thousand
dollars economic support
to 253 citizens of
Solola Department,
informed Prensa Latina
leaders of the Peace
Secretariat (SEPAZ)
This department has
processed 25 thousand
compensation requests
and plans to address
around 8 thousand of
them this year.
Besides economic
support, the program
provides for search of
those disappeared and
implementation of
development programs in
affected areas.
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