39 murder of his father, Silvestre Sic Xitmul.252 He indicated that his father’s body was buried on another person’s property and asked that his body be exhumed from that place.253 b. Subsequent measures 164. On March 4, 2002, the Public Prosecution Service asked the Criminal Court Judge of First Instance for Drug-related Activity and Crimes against the Environment of the Department of Baja Verapaz to issue an entry, inspection and search warrant for the purpose of conducting exhumations on properties in the village of Chichupac in those cases in which graves were said to have been found containing the remains of the alleged victims.254 The court granted that request on March 11, 2002; with that, the Criminal Court Judge of First Instance for Drug-related Activity and Crimes against the Environment of the Department of Baja Verapaz proceeded to designate two experts to conduct the exhumation.255 165. The exhumation was performed between April 9 and 12, 2002, and identified the skeletal remains of most of the alleged victims.256 On December 18, 2002, the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation submitted its report.257 On February 27, 2003, in the city of Rabinal, the Justice of the Peace conducted the court certification of human skeletal remains, in the presence of the alleged victims’ relatives, who identified the remains.258 166. unknown. 167. The whereabouts of Marcelo Sic Chen, who was disappeared on August 13, 1984, is still The Commission has no information of any further progress made in this process. 2.3.3. Concerning the events of January 18, 1982, involving Adrián García Manuel, Hugo García de Paz, Abraham Alvarado Tecú (or Agapito Alvarado Depáz); Raymundo Alarcón (or Edmundo Alarcón Morente) and Manuel de Jesús Alarcón Morente - Case MP. 247-2006-648 252 Annex 9. Statement by Francisco Sic Chen, dated July 26, 2001. Judicial case No. 255-93, p. 16. Annex 2 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007. 253 Annex 9. Statement by Francisco Sic Chen, dated July 26, 2001. Judicial case No. 255-93, p. 16. Annex 2 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007. 254 Annex 9. Memorandum from the Public Prosecution Service, dated March 4, 2002. Judicial case No. 255-93, pp. 4344. Annex 2 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007. 255 Annex 9. Order from the Criminal Court Judge of First Instance for Drug-related Activity and Crimes against the Environment of the Department of Baja Verapaz, dated March 11, 2002. Judicial case No. 255-93, p. 50. Annex 2 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007. 256 Annex 9. Justice of the Peace’s record of the exhumation of bodies in clandestine gravesites between April 9 and 12, 2002. Judicial case No. 255-93, pp. 56-57. Annex 2 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007. 257 Annex 26. Report presented by the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, dated December 18, 2002. Case File No. 1083-95. Annex 6 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007. 258 Annex 26. Record of court certification of human skeletal remains, signed by the Justice of the Peace and dated February 27, 2003. Case File No. 1083-95. Annex 6 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.