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108. The three alleged victims were detained and locked up in the Chirrum village
schoolhouse.141 Mr. Adrián García’s daughter, Juana García Depaz, said that she learned of the events
and told her daughter to go to the schoolhouse to bring them food.142 She maintained that the soldiers
“did not allow them to provide food because (…) they said they would be releasing them soon and that
they would be on their way home.”143
109. She maintained, however, that the alleged victims were taken instead to the military
post in the village Guachipilín within the municipality of Rabinal, where members of the National Army
and the Civil Self-Defense Patrols tortured them.144 Juana García Depaz said that her father Adrián
García was “crucified on an apple tree.”145 The others were killed, together with Mr. Raymundo Alarcón
and Manuel de Jesús Alarcón Morente, who were detained at the crossroads to the villages of Chirrum
and Chuateguá146 on January 18, 1982 or November 30, 1981.147 They were subsequently buried in a
clandestine gravesite in the village of Guachipilín.148
b.
Concerning the disappearance of Leonardo Cahuec González
110. According to the testimony in the case file, on January 18, 1982, Mr. Leonardo Cahuec
González and his wife Albertina Sic Cuxum were in the municipal seat of Rabinal, after the baptism of
their daughter the previous day.149 When they were about to return to their village, they were stopped
by a car from which two men in civilian dress emerged.150 These two individuals asked Mr. Cahuec to
produce his identification documents and, after taking them, tied his hands and walked him off to the
Rabinal jail.151
111. Mrs. Albertina Sic Cuxum went with them to the jail; the men guarding the entrance told
her that her husband was a guerrilla and that “everyone in her village was going to disappear for the
141
Annex 16. Statement given by Juana García de Paz in the presence of the Rabinal Municipal Prosecutor’s Office,
September 26, 2006. Complaint MP 247/2006/648. Annex 9 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
142
Annex 16. Statement given by Juana García de Paz in the presence of the Rabinal Municipal Prosecutor’s Office,
September 26, 2006. Complaint MP 247/2006/648. Annex 9 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
143
Annex 16. Statement given by Juana García de Paz in the presence of the Rabinal Municipal Prosecutor’s Office,
September 26, 2006. Complaint MP 247/2006/648. Annex 9 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
144
Annex 16. Statement given by Juana García de Paz in the presence of the Rabinal Municipal Prosecutor’s Office,
September 26, 2006. Complaint MP 247/2006/648. Annex 9 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
145
Annex 16. Statement given by Juana García de Paz in the presence of the Rabinal Municipal Prosecutor’s Office,
September 26, 2006. Complaint MP 247/2006/648. Annex 9 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
146
Annex 6. The petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
147
The Commission observes a discrepancy in the statements as to the date on which the detention and death of
Raymundo Alarcón and Manuel Alarcón occurred.
148
Annex 16. Statement by Juana García de Paz, given in the Rabinal Municipal Prosecutor’s Office, September 26,
2006. Complaint MP 247/2006/648. Annex 9 to the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
149
Annex 6. The petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
150
Annex 14. Amplification of a complaint concerning a person who disappeared in the Municipality of Rabinal, filed
July 12, 1995. Case file No. 811-95. Annex 10 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
151
Annex 14. Amplification of a complaint concerning a person who disappeared in the Municipality of Rabinal, filed
July 12, 1995. Case file No. 811-95. Annex 10 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007; Annex 2. CEH, Memory
of Silence, Volume VIII, Cases Presented, Case No. 9163.