32 EAAF, and two members of the Chilean anthropology group. The Truth Commission indicated that the exhumations must begin on October 19, 1992, as the results must be incorporated into the investigation 176 process. It also undertook to bring the experts to the country. 170. On September 30, 1992 the Ministry of Foreign Relations presented a letter from the 177 Argentine embassy with the names of the three EAAF members, and contact data for that institution. 171. On October 1, 1992 the president of the Supreme Court of Justice wrote to the Truth Commission, announcing that its petition relating to specialized experts had been remitted to the Second 178 Court. 172. On October 2, 1992 the Second Court confirmed the appointment of Patricia Bernardi 179 and Mercedes Doretti as experts and technical advisers. 173. On October 5, 1992 a note was sent to the Spanish Embassy requesting the assistance 180 of Spanish forensic experts in the El Mozote case. 174. During the months of October, November and December excavation and exhumation 181 work proceeded in the village of El Mozote. 175. On October 28, 1992 the Truth Commission wrote to the Second Court with suggestions for improving the exhumation work, conducting the laboratory examinations, and identifying the victims. Those suggestions included: 1. Exhumation work in El Mozote should continue, as further skeletal remains have been found in the walls next to the chapel. 2. The next step should be to analyze the skeletal remains found as recommended by the EAAF experts, as the Truth Commission needed a report on exhumation findings by the end of November. 3. Samples of the skeletons found should be sent to the University of California at Berkeley for identification. 4. The experts proposed by the Commission should be authorized to interview relatives of the victims to obtain pre-mortem data. 5. The victims’ remains should be returned to the place from which they were 182 exhumed, in recognition of the relatives’ rights and to allow for any subsequent studies. 176. The work began in the area of “El Convento” or Site 1, under the rotating responsibility of the Legal Medicine Institute of El Salvador and the Crime Commission and constant participation by the 183 three members of the EAAF . There were also visits from ONUSAL and the Truth Commission. The conclusions of the EAAF on the work at Site 1 include the following:  The type of interment may be described as a primary synchronous common grave. 176 Ibid. 177 Ibid 178 Ibid 179 Ibid. 180 Ibid. 181 Report of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team on the exhumations conducted in 1992 (Annex D. to the petitioners’ communication of November 11,2002). 182 Decision of the judge of the Second Court of September 27, 1993 (attached to the communication from the State of October 14, 1993). 183 Report of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team on the exhumations conducted in 1992 (Annex D. to the petitioners’ communication of November 11, 2002).