d) On March 13, 1982, in the community of Río Negro, approximately 190 members of
the community had been extrajudicially executed. Prior to the execution, the children
had been tortured and the women raped. The properties and personal belonging of the
members of the community had been sacked.
e) In the wake of the events of March 13, 1982, 17 children from the community had
been subjected to conditions of slavery.
f) On May 14, 1982, in the village of Los Encuentros, where survivors from the
community of Río Negro had taken refuge, 57 persons were victims of extrajudicial
execution and forced disappearance.
g) On September 14, 1982, in the community of Agua Fría, where survivors from the
community of Río Negro had taken refuge, approximately 116 personas had been
extrajudicially executed. The houses had been sacked and burned.
h) 51 members of the community of Río Negro had been assassinated on different
dates, because of the systematic persecution directed against the community.
i) The exhumation of all the human remains of the persons buried in the clandestine
cemeteries has not been possible, due to the extent to which many bodies were burned,
because they were exposed to the elements, or because they were buried near water
currents that carried them away.
j) The identification of all the other remains found in the clandestine cemeteries has not
been possible, because in many cases whole families were eliminated without survivors
who could provide information to identify the remains.
k) The survivors from the community of Río Negro had to take refuge in the mountains
and live in subhuman conditions.
l) The persecution of the members of the community of Río Negro began in 1980 and
continued for several years, preventing the survivors, inter alia, to bury the members of
the community who were assassinated legally and in keeping with their rites and
customs, organize themselves in keeping with their communal ways, maintain their
social, economic, political and cultural structures, live in their ancestral territories, or
bring actions before the justice system.
m) Domestic remedies established the criminal liability of only some of the persons who
had participated in the various facts set forth above.
93. With respect to the facts set forth above, The petitioners allege that the State has violated
Articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11(1), 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, and 27, in relation to Article 1(1) of the
Convention, to the detriment of the Indigenous Community of Río Negro and its members. The
State, for its part, has not offered any observations with regard to this requirement.
94. The Commission observes that the facts alleged tend to establish serious violations of the
human rights of the Maya-Achí Indigenous Community of Río Negro.
95. As for the allegations of assassinations, forced disappearance, and torture of the members
of the Community of Río Negro and their leaders, the Commission observes that they tend to
establish a violation of Articles 4, 5, and 3 of the American Convention. As regards the
allegations of rape of the women of the Community of Río Negro, the Commission observes
that such allegations tend to establish a violation of Article 5 of the American Convention.
96. As regards the allegations on the subjection to slavery of 17 children from the Community
of Río Negro, the Commission observes that it tends to establish a violation of Articles 6 and
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