Guatemala civil war: 68 genocide victims identified for dignified burial
The remains of 68 Indigenous Maya people killed in 1982 have been identified in Guatemala. Recovered from a storage facility in Chimaltenango, they will receive the dignified burial long denied them by the state. The case revives the wounds of the country's civil war.
In Guatemala, the remains of 68 Indigenous Maya people killed in 1982 have been identified through forensic work. The remains were recovered from a storage facility in the town of Chimaltenango.
According to El País, the victims died during a period of violence in the country's long civil war. Families will now be able to bury their loved ones in a dignified ceremony after many years.
The identification work brings the unhealed wounds of the civil war era back into focus. Human rights groups stress that documenting what happened in the past is important for the country's process of reckoning.
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