04 August 2004
Front Line is seriously concerned at the ongoing harassment of members of the Centre for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH), a non-governmental organisation which campaigns for truth and justice on behalf of victims of genocide in Guatemala.
In April 2004 it brought the case of the massacre on 18 July 1982 of 268 inhabitants of the community of Plan de Sanchez by the Guatemalan armed forces before the Inter American Court on Human Rights, which subsequently condemned the Guatemalan Government for the massacre. On 22 July 2004, following a reported raid on the offices of the organisation and death threats against its director Edda Gaviola, Front Line called on the authorities of Guatemala to ensure the protection of members of CALDH and witnesses of the Plan de Sanchez massacre. 
