General information

Call No.:

392-2-15:1/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-2-15 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: Casa Alianza

Located at

DVD-ROM #1 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-2-15_001

Date of production

1996-07-25

Date

1996

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Spanish; castilian

Duration

16 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

The first part of the tape shows the iced body of Melvin Umana, a homeless child who was beaten and shot to death by four uniformed policemen. In the second part a priest talks about the killing of Melvin. Casa Alianza (Covenant House) is a private, nonprofit organization providing food, shelter, medical care, and legal aid to children in Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.