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a.
Concerning the events of August 23 and 24, 1981 and August 17, 1986
177. On May 9, 1995, Juana García Depaz filed a complaint with the Auxiliary Human Rights
Ombudsman for Baja Verapaz concerning the executions that occurred in August 1981 that allegedly
claimed the lives of her husband, Mateo Grave, and her brother-in-law, Juan Alvarado, and concerning
the August 1986 execution that allegedly claimed the life of her brother Efraín Garcia de Paz.275 She
maintained that the remains of her family members were buried in the Rabinal cemetery and asked that
they be exhumed.276
178. On November 2, 2009, Juana Garcia Depaz gave a sworn statement in which she made
reference to the events that occurred on August 23 and 24, 1981, in connection with her husband,
Mateo Grave.277
179.
The Commission has no information of any further progress made in this process.
b.
Concerning the events of January 8, 18 and 31, 1982
180. Between June 5 and July 11, 1995, family members filed a complaint with the Human
Rights Ombudsman concerning the disappearance of Lorenzo Depaz Siprian (o Florencio Depaz
Cipriano), Leonardo Cahuec Gonzáles, Juan Mendoza Alvarado and José Cruz Mendoza.278 The
complaint was forwarded to the Public Prosecution Service’s District Attorney’s Office on July 12,
1995.279
181. On November 25, 2005, Maria Teresa Sic told the Rabinal Municipal Attorney’s Office
that her husband, Juan Mendoza Alvarado, was the victim of a forced disappearance on January 31,
1982, and that “his whereabouts is unknown.”280
182.
The Commission has no information of any further progress made in this process.
c.
Concerning events of February 12, 1982
183. According to information reported by the petitioners, on July 12, 1995 a complaint was
filed regarding the disappearance of Maria Concepción Chen Sic and Casimiro Siana.281
275
Annex 10. New clandestine gravesite complaint, filed by Juana García de Paz, dated May 30, 1995. Case File No.
802-95. Annex 7 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
276
Annex 10. New clandestine gravesite complaint, filed by Juana García de Paz, dated May 30, 1995. Case File No.
802-95. Annex 7 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
277
Annex 13. Sworn statement of Juana Garcia Depaz, November 2, 2009. Annex of the petitioners’ communication of
November 3, 2009.
278
Annex 14. Amplification of the complaint concerning disappeared persons in the Municipality of Rabinal, July 12,
1995. Case File No. 811-95. Annex 10 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
279
Annex 14. Amplification of the complaint concerning disappeared persons in the Municipality of Rabinal, July 12,
1995. Case File No. 811-95. Annex 10 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
280
Annex 27. Record from the Municipality of Rabinal, dated November 25, 2005. Annex 18 of the petitioners’
communication of December 13, 2007.