Draft:The Most Wanted Leaks of 2009-sort - Wikileaks

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Somewhat sorted entries of the most-wanted list. Work in progress, TODO: Add brief, entity and date for each entry.

[edit]Austria

[edit]Australia

[edit]Bahrain

[edit]Colombia

[edit]Finland

[edit]France

[edit]Germany

[edit]Greece

The Athens Affair

[edit]Guatemala

Within the process of trying to bring military personal involved in human rights violations and massacres that happen during the civil war in Guatemala to justice, the military have been required to declassify many war documents. In a case, that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Guatemala, the Court dictated a sentence that confirmed the obligation of the Ministry of Defense of Guatemala to hand over the official documentation of four specific military operations: Campana Sofia 82, Victoria 82, Firmeza 83 and Operacion Ixil. The Supreme Court sentence indicated that the archives had to be declassified.These military operations were carried out in the 80s. According to the CEH, Historical Clarification Commission of Guatemala final report contained in "Guatemala: Memory of Silence", these military operations resulted in massacres and severe human rights violations.The Minister of Defense Abraham Valenzuela only delivered partial information about plans Victoria 82 and Firmeza 83, two of the four requested plans. He indicated that he had no knowledge of the other two plans before he became Minister of Defense and that he ignores where the documentation could be. He stated that he could not deliver the complete plans "Victoria 82" y "Firmeza 83" because certain information was considered state secret and a concern of national security."Plan Sofia", a derivative of "Plan Victoria 82", was of special concern to human rights activists; this plan was conceived in July 1982, four months after General Efrain Rios Montt came into power.The United Nations' Historical Clarification Commission (CEH) for Guatemala issued a report where the US government and several American corporations were accused of complicity in the genocide of nearly 200,000 Mayan people during Guatemala?s bloody 36-year civil war. The final 3,600-page CEH report clearly places the blame for most of the 200,000 deaths on the "racist" policy of the Guatemalan government and holds the country?s military and paramilitary forces responsible for the actual killings, tortures and disappearances.However, it accuses the US of directly and indirectly supporting a "fratricidal confrontation" by providing sustained training, arms and financial aidThe report is based on the testimony of 9,200 people from all sides of the conflict and other documents*, classified and Secret, protected in the UN headquarters in NYC. The CEH investigated 42,000 human rights violations, 29,000 of which resulted in deaths or disappearances and therefore, the documents under UN custody are fundamental for the prosecution of those responsible of the crimes.

[edit]Madagascar

Both sides of the political conflict in Madagascar are crying fouls about the deals made by their counterparts with foreign entities. The release of the official documents with respect to contract negotiations about:

[edit]México

[edit]Norway

[edit]Puerto Rico

[edit]Rwanda

[edit]Russia

[edit]Slovenia

[edit]Switzerland

[edit]Swaziland

[edit]Trinidad and Tobago

As far as Trinidad and Tobago goes, our government tends to pay lip service to the principles of transparency and accountability. For instance, there is a Freedom of Information Act which, by law, allows the public to seek information from government departments. But quite often, when such attempts are made by the citizenry, the government bars full disclosure. Depending on how important a piece of information is to Joe Public, he may actually have to turn to the courts to "force" the government to reveal facts that should be disclosed voluntarily. Following are a few examples of documents that should be made public, but have not been:

[edit]Uganda

[edit]United Kingdom

[edit]United Nations

[edit]United States

Important bulk databases

Federal politics

Military and Intelligence

Banking

Environment

Media

Religion

[edit]Vatican

[edit]International organizations

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