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Delegation takes Zamora investigation to murder site
20 July 2007
A delegation checking progress in the investigation into the murder of Pedro Zamora will begin a week long visit to Guatemala on Monday.
The ITF-organised mission will follow a similar delegation sent shortly after the murder of union leader Zamora to demand justice and offer protection to other members of the STEPQ dockers’ union in Puerto Quetzal, who were also receiving death threats.
As part of this ongoing campaign to protect and seek justice they will meet with Pedro Zamora’s family and colleagues and with senior politicians, human rights officials and police. The group includes senior ITF officials, trade unionists and human rights workers from Guatemala, the USA, UK, Brazil and Spain
David Cockroft, ITF General Secretary, commented: “The struggle for justice continues. The people who ordered and carried out the gunning down of Pedro Zamora in front of his children are literally getting away with murder. We don’t intend to allow that.”
“Since Pedro’s murder in January, and by working with Guatemalan unions, affiliates worldwide, the ITUC and ETF, we’ve won real victories in Guatemala, the European Parliament, the World Bank and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration. But we cannot rest until justice is achieved for Pedro, and this latest mission is the latest part of that ongoing struggle.”
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