13 None of the victims found inside the house could be recognized, due to the high temperatures to which their bodies had been subjected. The remains of the victims located in the yard were partly covered by the roof of the house that had fallen on them, and they had firearm wounds mainly in the head, chest and back. In the afternoon, some domestic animals began to eat the remains of the burnt victims; 42(23) the military commissioners of Chipuerta and Concul who arrived at the place went to the military base at Rabinal to ask what they should do with the bodies of the victims. They returned to the village between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon together with members of the local PAC, and they ordered the survivors to rapidly bury all the corpses at the site of the massacre, threatening that if they did not do it within one hour, the community would be bombed. Most of the bodies were buried at the same site of the massacre. Several relatives of the victims from the village of Concul took the bodies to bury them at their cemetery; 42(24) members of the commando plundered and destroyed the dwellings, stole their belongings, their food, their animals and their personal effects, such as: marriage certificates, identification documents and land titles; they returned several times to the village of Plan de Sánchez for this purpose and they threatened the townspeople who had returned. Out of fear of being murdered, the survivors took turns watching the entrances to the village, to be able to continue with their chores and their work in the fields; 42(25) those who survived the massacre, fearful due to what had happened, the threats and harassment by the commissioners, the members of the PAC and the army, decided to gradually leave the village during the weeks and months after the massacre. Some of the survivors sought refuge in the mountains and in other places such as Chol, San Gabriel, and the capital. Those who sought refuge in the mountains took no food with them and had little clothing. Given their precarious conditions, they became ill, especially the children and the elderly, and some even died. The displaced persons were chased by the PAC and by the army. The displaced survivors stayed away from the community for several years; 42(26) two and a half years after the massacre, siblings Buenaventura Manuel Jerónimo, Benjamín Manuel Jerónimo, Juan Manuel Jerónimo, and Salvador Jerónimo Sánchez returned to the municipal capital of Rabinal and went before military commissioner Lucas Tecú, who allowed them to remain in the area, threatening them into entering the PAC and patrolling villages near the municipal capital. The military commissioner ordered that they should not be allowed to work on their land, rebuild their dwellings, or live in the village of Plan de Sánchez. They had to live for a year in the village of Coxojabaj, two kilometers from that of Plan de Sánchez. Other families of displaced survivors who returned were forced to live in the municipal capital at Rabinal; 42(27) afterwards, the survivors were allowed to work on their lands. In 1985 they were authorized to live in the village of Plan de Sánchez, under constant watch and threats by the army and by the military commissioner. Many survivors, lacking financial means for their livelihood, were forced to enter the army as the only means to earn enough to buy seed, wood, sheet metal and roof tiles to be able to establish themselves once again in the community of Plan de Sánchez.