the mountains and were only able to register their children later, with false dates115 and places of birth in order to protect them. 83. When the amnesty law entered into force in 1983, some survivors of the massacres came down from the mountains and were resettled by the government in the Pacux settlement, located behind the Rabinal military garrison. However, the violence against members of the Río Negro community continued there. In this regard, the case file shows that some of the people who tried to live there were interrogated, detained for days without food,116 threatened, obliged to do forced labor, tortured,117 disappeared118 and murdered, and some women were raped.119 84. The case file indicates that at least 289 survivors of the Río Negro massacres identified by the representatives still reside in the semi-urban settlement of Pacux. In this regard, according to the INDE “Final Report of the Technical Support Commission,” issued in January 2008 and provided by the State with its final written arguments, in 2006 a “Political Agreement” was signed between the Government of Guatemala and the Coordinator of Communities affected by the Construction of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam (COCAHICH), among them that of Río Negro, for the “identification, verification and, as appropriate, reparation plan for the harm caused to the said communities owing to the construction of the Chixoy River Dam and Reservoir.” Based on this agreement, the State of Guatemala built 150 houses and 4 public buildings in Pacux, including a “Catholic church, school, health post and community center,” and provided the community with a “nixtamal mill, […] water 115 Cf. Report “Guatemala, Memoria del Silencio,” supra, volume VI, annex I, Illustrative Case No. 10 “Massacre and Elimination of the Community of Río Negro”; testimony provided by affidavit by María Osorio Chen (merits file, tome II, folios 996 to 1001); testimony of Teodora Chen (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folios 523 and 524); testimony of Antonia Osorio Sánchez (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folios 487 to 490); testimony of Carmen Sánchez Chen (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folio 529 and 530); testimony of José Osorio Sic (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folios 541 and 542); testimony of Francisco Chen Osorio (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folio 567). The Commission presented a list of 63 persons presumably deceased owing to circumstances related to the persecution to which they were subjected. For their part, the representatives presented a list of 32 persons presumably deceased during the persecution that followed these massacres. Cf. “Annex W. List of victims of the persecution that followed the massacre” (file of attachments to the pleadings and motions brief, tome XXV, folios 14912 to 14914). 116 According to the testimony of Francisco Chen Osorio, “we were punished there, without any food […,] we were so hungry, we appeared to be drunk.” Cf. testimony of Francisco Chen Osorio (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folio 566). 117 For example, according to the testimony of Francisco Chen Osorio, José Osorio Ivoy was “tortured with a knife and cigar embers; sometimes he fainted; they gave him food and then they hit him again; they made him vomit everything he had eaten.” Cf. testimony of Francisco Chen Osorio (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folio 564). Furthermore, Antonia Osorio Sánchez testified that “they punished [her] brothers, Cristobal Osorio Sanchez, Luis Osorio Sanchez; they dragged them through muddy pools, we could hear cries, screams and people agonizing, because they were torturing them in the garrison. When we were in Pacux, the soldiers also came to rape the women, and when we went to the market, we had to do so in groups of women, and we were escorted by a military squad.” Cf. testimony of Antonia Osorio Sánchez (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folio 488). 118 José Osorio Sic indicated that “some of [his] companions […] were tortured for eight days […], Cristobal Osorio, Luis Osorio Sánchez, Sebastián Ivoy Osorio, Francisco Chen Osorio, Margarita Siana and Jesusa Osorio Sanchez, and José Ivoy Osorio died while being tortured, and Juan Osorio Chen, Simeón Chen López and Pedro Chen López were taken by helicopter to the military zone of Cobán, Alta Verapaz, and I think they died there, because they have never reappeared, and only Juan Osorio Chen returned one month later [sic].” Cf. testimony of José Osorio Sic (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folio 543). 119 Cf. Report “Guatemala, Memoria del Silencio,” supra, volume VI, annex I, Illustrative Case No. 10 “Massacre and Elimination of the Community of Río Negro”; testimony of Francisco Chen Osorio (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folios 562 to 568); testimony of Antonia Osorio Sánchez (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folio 488), and testimony of José Osorio Sic (file of annexes to the submission of the case, tome I, folio 543 to 546). 38