Remains of 163 Guatemala massacre dead given to families
Remains of 163 Guatemala massacre dead given to families
Sapa-AFP | 08 December, 2013 09:53
The skeletal remains of 163 people massacred in one of the worst atrocities of Guatemala’s bloody civil war were handed over to surviving relatives on Saturday, officials said.
Families of victims of the 1982 Dos Erres massacre, in which 201 villagers died, wept as they shouldered wooden coffins containing their loved ones and took them to a local cemetery.
The massacre, which unfolded in Dos Erres between December 6 and 8, 1982 during the decades-long civil war, occurred under the military regime of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who faces trial for genocide.
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A UN-sponsored truth commission documented 669 massacres during the civil war, of which 626 were attributed to state forces. The majority were committed during a brief but particularly gruesome stretch under Rios Montt and the de facto government of Oscar Mejia Victores from 1982 to 1986.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2013/12/08/remains-of-163-guatemala-massacre-dead-given-to-families