The Myrna Mack Case An Update (1998) / Chapter Skim
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It focuses especially on the September 11, 1990, murder of anthropologist Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang. Myrr~a Mack researched and wrote about indigenous populations displaced or destroyed due to armed political-military conflict and military counterinsurgency practices.2 She was murdered outside her workplace in Guatemala City only two days after her research was published in English.
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In the case of Myrna Mack, the murder was so egregious, the record of the Guatemalan military's impunity so flagrant, and the resulting cessation of virtually all anthropological research in Guatemala so unfortunate, that the committee decided to devote special attention to the development of the legal case and to persistently urge that all those responsible for Myrna Mack's death be brought to justice. The committee recognizes with deep respect the courageous, unselfish, and tireless efforts of Helen Beatriz Mack Chang, Myrna's sister and the selfappointed private prosecutor in the case.
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