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INSIDECENTRALAMERICA
| Thursday 30 September 2010 |
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Guatemala:
First
Exhumation
of War
Victims
GUATEMALA
-
Guatemala
on
Wednesday
begins
exhuming
the
remains
of those
murdered
by the
army
during
the
internal
armed
conflict
of 1960
to 1996.
According
to the
National
Reparations
Program
(PNR),
the
exhumation
will
take
place on
Wednesday
and
Thursday
at a
small
village
located
in
Huehuetenango
department,
where
residents
reported
the
existence
of a
clandestine
cemetery.
Before
the
exhumation
process
begins,
the
victimsâ�Ö
families
will
participate
in a
psychosocial
workshop
to
prepare
them
before
giving a
proper
burial
to the
bodies
according
to local
traditions,
PNR
pointed
out.
The
burial
site is
located
in the
backyard
of what
is now a
rural
school
in the
village
of Agua
Blanca
I, in
the
municipality
of
Aguacata.
This
action
will be
jointly
carried
out by
the PNR,
the
Peace
Secretariat,
the
National
Institute
of
Forensic
Science
and the
Public
Ministry.
The
internal
armed
conflict
left
around
250,000
people
dead and
missing,
and was
characterized
by a
bloody
annihilation
campaign
against
the
civilian
population
for
being
what was
considered
the
grass-roots
base of
guerrilla
forces.
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