Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Human Rights and Access to Justice in Guatemala: Former Attorney General of Guatemala

2:55 pm

Dr. Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey:

There are always risks to being a prosecutor or a police officer and they come with the job when one accepts it. What happened to me, victims, human rights defenders and judges working on genocide cases was a dirty campaign against us whereby it was stated we were not pursuing justice but committing acts of revenge. This was difficult because it made the discussion about something it was not. We had a duty to investigate crime, and if someone has committed a crime he or she should be sanctioned.

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