Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that a girl who is related to Mr Manuel Calel Morales, a human rights defender, was the victim of a sexual assault and a murder attempt on 17 February 2009. Manuel Calel Morales is the Coordinator for the Asociación Guía que Conduce al Pueblo Tierra del Maíz – Kamal B'e Rex Tinamit Ixim Ulew (Guiding Association which Leads the ‘Land of Maize’ People), a non-governmental organisation which has campaigned since 1980 against impunity for crimes committed during the internal armed conflict in Guatemala which lasted from 1960 until 1996.