3 commissioners, judiciales, and the civil self-defense patrols (hereinafter, “PAC” for their initials in 3 Spanish) , against the Maya Achí population located in Rabinal municipality, department of Baja Verapaz. In this context, the petitioners identify a number of alleged victims of extrajudicial executions, torture, forced disappearances, rapes, illegal detentions, failure to lend assistance and forced labor, and enclose, for each case, information on: (1) date, place and cause of the act of violence, and in some cases identify the alleged perpetrators of acts of violence; (2) copies of the claims filed and cases processed; (3) copies of forensic reports; (4) birth and death certificates of the alleged victims; (5) identification of their relatives; (6) letters signed by the President of the Republic of Guatemala, Álvaro Colom, in which he apologies, on behalf of the Guatemalan State, to the next-of-kin of some of the alleged victims named in this petition, for the anguish and pain caused during the internal armed conflict. Specifically, the allegations refer to: a. Massacre in the village of Chichupac (January 8, 1982) 11. They report that on the morning of January 8, 1982 the residents of the village of Chichupac were summoned by the Army, military commissioners and judiciales to a meeting at the community health center and, after about 300 people were gathered, the soldiers distributed toys to the children and ordered the women to leave and go home. The military agents then allegedly ordered the men to line up, carrying their identity cards in hand. They note that based on a list of names held by the judiciales, 32 men - including catechists, health promoters and community leaders of Chichupac, Xeabaj, Coyojá, El Tablón and Chijom - were separated from the rest of the group, accused of belonging to the guerrillas and forced to enter the health center. The other men were forced to return home, under the caveat that they should not get into "anything" to avoid meeting the same fate as the previous group. 4 12. They argue that inside the health center the 32 men were cruelly tortured and forced to walk to the highest point of the village, where they were extrajudicially executed and their bodies dumped in mass graves. They note that one of the alleged victims, Félix Alvarado Xitumul, died as a result of the torture inflicted on him shortly after starting the walk from the health center. 13. With regard to this massacre, the following persons are listed as alleged victims: (1) Víctor Juárez Pangan (or Víctor Juárez Pancan), (2) Clemente Juárez Ixpancoc, (3) Cruz Sic Cuxum (or Cruz Sic Cuxún), (4) Pedro Sic Jerónimo, (5) Gregorio Valey, (6) Timoteo Sic Cujá, (7) Roberto Galiego Chen, (8) Antonio Alvarado González, (9) Alfonso Cruz Juárez, (10) Domingo Cahuec Sic, (11) Santiago Alvarado Xitumul, (12) Agustín Juárez Ixpancoc, (13) Teodoro González Xitumul, (14) Eulogio Morales Alvarado, (15) Luciano González (or Luciano González Sis), (16) Apolinario Juárez Pérez, (17) Alberto Juarez Perez, (18) Evaristo Depaz Siana (or Evaristo Siana), (19) Pedro Tum, (20) Emigdio Siana Ixtecoc, (21) Pedro Galiego López, (22) Demetrio Chen Alvarado, (23) Pedro Galiego Mendoza, (24) Camilo Juárez Valey, (25) Julian Garniga (or Julián Garniga López), (26) Benito Juarez Ixpancoc, (27) Francisco Depaz, (28) Maximiliano Sis Valey, 29) Vicente Sic Osorio, 30) Patrocinio Galiego, (31) Félix Alvarado Xitumul and, (32) José Demetrio Cahuec Jerónimo. 3 The military commissioners emerged in 1939 as an auxiliary figure to support and assist the National Army formed by civilians linked to security forces. During the armed conflict their numbers increased significantly, they became spies for the security forces in villages of Guatemala, and were the direct implementers of illegal procedures ordered by the authorities of the Army. Guatemala, Memory of Silence. Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification (Guatemala, Memoria del Silencio. Informe de la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico). Volume I, Chapter I, Title IV, paragraphs 443 ff. The judiciales were members of the investigations department of the National Police dedicated to political persecution (REMHI Report, Recuperation of Historical Memory (Informe REMHI, Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica, Volume II, Chapter I, Title I) and during the internal armed conflict came to be the ones to implement irregular practices institutionalized by the Government. (Guatemala, Memory of Silence. Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification [Guatemala, Memoria del Silencio. Informe de la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico]. Volume II, Chapter II, Title IV, paragraphs 1168 ff.). The PACs were created in late 1981 by the de facto military regime of General Rios Montt, as part of a policy to exterminate the guerrilla movement by relocating the indigenous population and eradicating "any person or community of persons under suspicion, through procedures that violated human rights." IACHR, Fourth Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Guatemala, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.83. June 1, 1993, para. 55. 4 In this regard, they pointed out that from the houses they could hear the screams of pain and that the patrollers who were forced to clean the health center on the following day found blood as well as remains of human flesh.