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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