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relatives were being held at the school, she sent her daughter to take them some food. The
soldiers did not allow her to deliver the food, telling her that “they [would] soon be released and
[were] going home.” Subsequently, the three men were transferred to the military post in the
village of Guachipilín, and since then there has been no information on their whereabouts. That
same day, the brothers Manuel de Jesús and Edmundo (or Raymundo), both Alarcón Morente,
who had also been recruited as members of the PAC, were seen for the last time. In the morning,
a group of soldiers had arrived at the home of the Alarcón Morente family, located between the
villages of Chirrum and Chuateguá, asking for the two brothers, without their relatives giving
any news of them. According to the family’s account, Manuel de Jesús Alarcón Morente went out
to cut cane and did not return, and his brother Edmundo Alarcón Morente was seen for the last
time accompanied by soldiers who tied him up and took him away. 102
100. In 2006, at the request of Juana García Depaz, the FAFG carried out excavation and
exhumation work on a plot of land located in the village of Guachipilín, in the municipality of
Rabinal. 103 In 2008, based on the final report of the forensic anthropological analysis conducted
by the FAFG, it was concluded that four skeletal remains were exhumed from the grave and that
these belonged to Hugo García de Paz, Manuel de Jesús Alarcón Morente, Edmundo Alarcón
Morente and Agapito Alvarado Depáz. The report also indicated that three of the four cadavers
“had their arms pulled backwards and the wrists together as if they had been bound,” and that
“[a]t the time of burial the bodies were not placed but thrown.” In addition, based on the
traumatic injuries observed in the skeletal remains corresponding to Agapito Alvarado Depáz, it
was concluded that “the cause of death is compatible with the slitting of the throat.” 104 As
reported by the representatives, and not disputed, the four skeletal remains were delivered to
their relatives who buried them. To date, the whereabouts of Adrián García Manuel is unknown.
101. Also, on January 18, 1982, while returning to their home in the village of Chichupac after
having baptized one of their daughters at a Catholic church in Rabinal, Leonardo Cahuec
González and his wife Albertina Sic Cuxúm were intercepted by a car, from which two people
dressed in civilian clothes got out. They asked Leonardo Cahuec for his identification documents,
tied his hands and led him away on foot to the jail in the center of the municipality of Rabinal.
Albertina Sic went with them to the jail and two men who were guarding the entrance told her
that her husband was a guerrilla, that “all the men in the village of Chichupac [were] guerrillas,”
and that “he was sent to the barracks to do military service and that he would be back home at
any moment.” Finally, they threatened to beat her if she did not leave. To date, the whereabouts
of Leonardo Cahuec are unknown.
102. In addition, on January 18, 1982, 1983 or 1984, Miguel Chen Tahuico, who fled from the
village of Chichupac after the massacre at the clinic on January 8, 1982, and took refuge in the
mountains, was detained by soldiers along with a group of four to six of his relatives. The soldiers
accused him of belonging to the guerrillas, hung him from a tree by his neck, burned his chest
with a cigarette and tried to burn his tongue with a charred stick. When he was on the ground,
they trampled all over him and jumped on his stomach. Then they tied him by the head, waist,
hands and feet, leaving him out in the open all night guarded by soldiers. The next day, he was
102
Cf. Statements of Marcelina Alarcón Morente and Clotilde Felipa Alarcón Morente (sisters of Manuel de Jesús and
Edmundo Alarcón Morente) rendered by affidavit on December 13, 2014 (evidence file, folios 5742 to 5744 and 5748).
It should be noted that in its Merits Report the Commission pointed out that “in the statements there is a discrepancy in
the date on which the detention and death of Raymundo Alarcón and Manuel Alarcón would have occurred.” Thus, the
Court has proceeded to point out the account that is consistent with the evidence, without prejudice to any new evidence
that may arise in this regard.
103
Cf. Record of the Assistant Prosecutor of the Municipal Prosecutor's Office of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, of October 9,
2006 (evidence file, folios 1414 to 1416); Record of the Assistant Prosecutor of the Municipal Prosecutor's Office of
Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, of October 10, 2006 (evidence file, folios 1417 to 1419), and official letter from the deputy
inspector of the P.N.C. in charge of Sub-station 52-21 of the National Civil Police of October 19, 2006 (evidence file,
folios 1421 to 1422).
104
Cf. FAFG Report of January 31, 2008 presented before the Assistant Prosecutor of the District Prosecutor’s Office of
Salamá (evidence file, folios 11776 bis 3, 11776 bis 13 and 11776 bis 14).