DEATHS OF DAVID AGUILAR AND- EUNICE CAMPIRAN
- [The following - communication appeared in the September 15 issue of.:the Mexican biweekly magazine Politica. The translation is by World Outlook.) 7 :
Mr. Editor: . On various occasions: your illustrious magazine “has. referred to the death of the university students David ‘Aguilar Mora and :his esteemed wife Eunice Campiran, brutally murdered by the nilitary dictatorship. headed by the "gorilla" Peralta Azurdia and his gang of killers who wore the insignia of colonels. With complete justification the university students of the great Mexican nation and civic, political and cultural associations have protested over the disappearance of their fallen compatriots.
We should like the Mexican revolutionary youth to know that the Guatemalan students, through the Asociacion de Estudiantes Universitarios (AEU), exercized every legal recourse to determine the whereabouts of your two captured compatriots -- personal inter-
views, conversations with Leobardo Reynoso, the present Mexican ambassador in our country and, in practice, the accomplice of the military dictatorship. A talk was even had: with President Diaz Ordaz when he visited our country, although he paid no attention to the problem laid before him,: an attitude that signified complete identification with the military regime inflicted on Guatemala.
The Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes: kidnapped the then chairman of the Supreme Court of Justice, Romeo Augusto de Leén, and the secretary of the presidency, Baltasar Morales de la Cruz, as a way of putting pressure on the "gorillas" to produce the two Mexican students and 26 other persons, ‘including workers leaders of the stature of Victor Manuel Gutiérrez Garbin, general secretary of the Confederacién General de Trabajadores:de Guatemala and secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions and Leonardo Flores, general secretary of the Confederacion Nacional | Campesina de Guatemala.
When the military government turned over command to the socalled "third government of the revolution" .on July 1, the AKU made various trips to the southwest of our country in order to locate the bodies of victims of the Peralta tyranny, and discovered that more. than 500 peasants had been’ murdered by the Guatemalan army.
David Aguilar Mora was shot at the military base in the department of Zacapa after being subjected to terrible torture. Those guilty of this murder were the Second.Lieutenant Carlos. — Cruz y Cruz, alias "Serrucho" [hack-saw], who was nelped in his criminal work by G-2 members César Guerra Morales and Rigoberto Garcia, alias "El Gato" [the cat].
-‘The heroine Unice Campiran, after having been violated by army officers and troops, was murdered by a criminal ax-blow in the head by the bailiff Rail Ogaldea Sanchez. This butcher is now working for the present government as.chief of the mobile police in the department of Escuntla. The two Mexican patriots were buried in the cemetery at Puerto Barrios in a place called "La Ladera.
The journal El Estudiante, faithful defender of the just causes of the people, joins in the demand of the Mexican comrades to have the bodies of Eunice and David brought home so that due honor can be paid them as revolutionary fighters killed for the sole crime of seeking a Latin America freed some day. from the imperialist. yoke that weighs on our peoples today.
With fraternal greetings from the staff of ont Estudiante,
“Amado Sanz
' Guatemala