September 12, 2000

Rights Action campaign for just compensation and reparations from the World Bank & the Inter-American Development Bank for survivors of the Rio Negro community destroyed by construction of the Chixoy Dam in Guatemala.

Rights Action is involved with a campaign to have the World Bank (WB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) provide full and proper compensation and reparations to the survivors of the Rio Negro community (Baja Verapaz, Guatemala). The surviving townspeople of Rio Negro were forcibly and mercilessly displaced from their home community to make way for the construction of the Chixoy Dam project, 1975-1985, funded by the WB and the IDB. More than 440 Rio Negro townspeople were massacred. Most survivors live in conditions of poverty and psychological trauma today. In May 2000, we distributed Communique #1 [available at: http://www.rightsaction.org] that provides background information for this Campaign. Rights Action (Canada) Box 73527, CP Wychwood 509 St. Clair Ave W. Toronto ON, M6C-1C0, Canada info@rightsaction.org http://www.rightsaction.org Guatemala City T: 502 [country code] 251-9803 partners@guate.net http://www.rightsaction.org