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The US Supreme Court has rejected human rights lawyer Jennifer Harbury's suit against officials of former President Bill Clinton's administration whom she accuses of misleading her about the fate of her late husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a Guatemalan guerrilla who was tortured and killed by the Guatemalan military. Since Bamaca's disappearance, Harbury has claimed that former Secretary of State Warren Christopher and other Clinton administration officials misled her and withheld information about her husband's capture.
Harbury claims the US government was complicit in the death of her husband, that US officials knew Bamaca was captured alive and tortured by the Guatemalan army, and that US officials may have hoped to benefit from some of the information Bamaca could provide under torture.
In captivity, Bamaca, a rebel commander of the Organizacion del Pueblo en Armas (ORPA), was reportedly chained naked to a bed, repeatedly beaten, and encased in a full-body cast to prevent his escape.
Harbury had met Bamaca in 1990 when she went to the department of San Marcos to do research on a...
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