4 14. The petitioners argue that the next day, members of the community approached the highest point of the village, where they found two mass graves and proceeded to dig a third grave to bury those human remains that had been left unburied. According to the petitioners, the survivors of the massacre sought refuge in the mountains to protect their lives and their families, where they remained for three years, experiencing persecution by the Army and its associates. Moreover, they argue that family life and the exercise of religious practices were affected by the massacre and that they suffered partial and/or total of loss their material possessions, such as their crops, animals and homes. 15. In terms of judicial actions, they reported that on March 25, 1993, Ana Calate Sic reported before the Court of First Instance of the city of Salamá, the existence of a clandestine cemetery in the village of Chichupac. They add that from May 6 to 19, 1993, an exhumation was conducted and the existence of a clandestine cemetery made up of three mass graves was confirmed, where at least 30 people who died violently were buried. 16. Furthermore, they note that on December 2, 1997 Miguel Sic Osorio, Fabiana Chen Galiego, and Teresa Cacaj Cahuec filed a complaint before the Court of First Instance for Drugs and Environmental Crimes of Baja Verapaz for the Chichupac massacre and asked to be admitted as additional complainants. They report that since 2005 the case is being investigated by the Special Cases and Human Rights Violations Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor with the Human Rights Section of the Guatemala City Public Prosecutor’s Office. They argue that since the claim was filed in 1993, the courts have only taken statements from some of the relatives of the alleged victims, without conducting any proceedings aimed at investigating, prosecuting, and convicting the alleged perpetrators of the massacre, and that the case has come to a standstill. 2. Extrajudicial executions, torture, forced disappearances, failure to lend assistance, rape, illegal detentions and/or forced labor of the residents of the villages of Chichupac, Toloxcoc, Xeabaj, El Apazote, Chijom and El Tablón, Baja Verapaz, from August 24 , 1981 to August 17, 1986 17. The petitioners point out that the massacre of January 8, 1982 in Chichupac was not the only act of violence committed against the Maya Achí people. In this sense, they identify other alleged victims of violent acts carried out from August 24, 1981 to August 17, 1986, as part of an alleged plan of genocide driven by the governments of that period and perpetrated by security forces. All alleged victims would have been Mayan indigenous from the villages of Chichupac, Toloxcoc, Xeabaj, El Apazote, Chijom, and El Tablón. 18. Specifically, the petitioners allege 39 extrajudicial executions. They note that in all cases the alleged victims were accused of having links with the guerrillas, that the majority of bodies evidenced torture, and that one of the alleged victims, before being executed, was raped. They name the following 39 alleged victims: (1) Gregoria Valey Ixtecoc (or Gregoria Valey or Gregoria Valey Yxtecoc), raped and extrajudicially executed on November 22, 1982 in her home in the village of Chichupac; (2) Silvestre Sic (or Silvestre Sic Xitumul), extrajudicially executed on December 20, 1984 in his home in the village of Chichupac; (3) Raymunda Corazón (or Raymunda Sican Corazón or Raymunda Sical), from the village of Chichupac, extrajudicially executed on December 20, 1984 in her home; (4) Víctor Alvarado Valey, originally from the Toloxcoc Village of Rabinal – four kilometers from the village of Chichupac – extrajudicially executed on January 1, 1982 in his community; (5) Ceferino Alvarado Sucup (or Seferino Alvarado Sucup, son of Víctor Alvarado Valey) originally from the village of Toloxcoc, extrajudicially executed on January 1, 1982 in his community; (6) Fidel Alvarado Sucup (son of Víctor Alvarado Valey), originally from the village of Toloxcoc, extrajudicially executed on January 1, 1982 in his community; (7) Domingo Reyes Juárez, originally from the village of Toloxcoc, extrajudicially executed on January 1, 1982 in his community; (8) Andrés Reyes Román (son of Domingo Reyes Juárez), originally from the village of Toloxcoc, extrajudicially executed on January 1, 1982 in his community; (9) Santiago Reyes Román (son of Domingo Reyes Juárez), originally from the village of Toloxcoc, extrajudicially executed on January 1, 1982 in his community; (10) Elías Milián González, originally from the village of Toloxcoc, extrajudicially executed on March 22, 1982 in a health center located in Xeabaj; (11) Amelia Milían