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03-22-2009, 01:17 PM
Guatemala to open mass grave in search for war dead
22 Mar 2009 16:53:04 GMT
Source: *******
* Rights groups to exhume victims of 36-year civil war
* Around 1,000 victims believed to be in mass grave
* Work could help prosecute former police, soldiers
By Sarah Grainger GUATEMALA CITY, March 22 (*******) - Guatemala's biggest mass grave may give up its secrets this year when bodies from a massacre during the 1960-1996 civil war are exhumed after decades of mystery.
Following years of work in rural graves and battling for clues, official permits and funding, rights groups will start digging at a cemetery in Guatemala City, part of a healing process as Guatemala unearths victims of the long conflict.
Around 1,000 bodies in a mass grave at the La Verbena cemetery are thought to be the victims of extrajudicial killings by the army and police during some of the most violent years of the conflict.
"These are people who were taken to be questioned, interrogated, probably tortured," said Fredy Peccerelli, an activist leading efforts to exhume the bodies later this year with $1 million in aid from the United States and Europe.Article continued at http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22534737.htm
22 Mar 2009 16:53:04 GMT
Source: *******
* Rights groups to exhume victims of 36-year civil war
* Around 1,000 victims believed to be in mass grave
* Work could help prosecute former police, soldiers
By Sarah Grainger GUATEMALA CITY, March 22 (*******) - Guatemala's biggest mass grave may give up its secrets this year when bodies from a massacre during the 1960-1996 civil war are exhumed after decades of mystery.
Following years of work in rural graves and battling for clues, official permits and funding, rights groups will start digging at a cemetery in Guatemala City, part of a healing process as Guatemala unearths victims of the long conflict.
Around 1,000 bodies in a mass grave at the La Verbena cemetery are thought to be the victims of extrajudicial killings by the army and police during some of the most violent years of the conflict.
"These are people who were taken to be questioned, interrogated, probably tortured," said Fredy Peccerelli, an activist leading efforts to exhume the bodies later this year with $1 million in aid from the United States and Europe.Article continued at http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22534737.htm