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172. On July 28, 1997, Francisca Gonzales Tecu filed a complaint with the Human Rights
Ombudsman concerning the events that occurred on November 26, 1982 and March 2, 1983.267 She
maintained that she had identified some of the soldiers and civil patrollers who participated in the
events. She also stressed the fact that she knew the location of the bodies of her family members who
died in those events - Gorgonio González, Enriqueta Tecú and Rosa González – and asked that the
necessary procedures be taken to exhume their remains.268
173. On August 6, 1997, the Human Rights Ombudsman forwarded the complaint to the
Municipal Attorney of Salamá, Baja Verapaz.269 On June 2, 2004, the Criminal Court Judge of First
Instance of Salamá ordered the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation to conduct the
exhumation at the clandestine gravesites located in Xeabaj, municipality of Rabinal.270 The exhumation
was conducted between June 7 and 11, 2004.271
174. The expert report prepared by the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation was
turned over to the District Attorney’s Office on October 21, 2004.272 The report concluded that: i) the
pattern of internment at the grave suggests that the burial was done by family members and/or
neighbors; ii) one set of remains is that of a boy, while another is that of a baby; iii) a fourth set of
skeletal remains shows “evidence of circum-mortem trauma, caused by violence inflicted upon the
individual sometime proximate to the time of death, and is consistent with a bullet wound in the brain
and contusions in the thorax”; and iv) of these four cases, “the cause of death of two was found to be
consistent with the effects caused by a bullet fired to the head.”273
175. On September 22, 2005, Fracisca Gonzales Tecu received the skeletal remains of Rosa
Gonzales Tecú, Adela Florentina Alvarado Garcia, Enriqueta Tecú and Luciano Alvarado Xitumul. William
Misael Ixtecoc received the remains of Lucia Xitumul Ixpancoc and of an unidentified person “who was a
newborn between zero and three months old.”274
176.
The Commission has no information of any further progress made in this process.
2.3.5. Concerning the other alleged victims
267
Annex 22. Complaint that Francisca Gonzales Tecu filed with the Human Rights Ombudsman, July 28, 1997. Annex
11 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
268
Annex 22. Complaint that Francisca Gonzales Tecu filed with the Human Rights Ombudsman, July 28, 1997. Annex
11 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
269
Annex 21. Communication addressed to the Salamá Municipal Attorney’s Office, August 6, 1997. Case File No.
1378-97. Annex 14 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
270
Annex 21. Communication from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, dated October 6, 2004. Case
File No. 1378-97. Annex 14 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
271
Annex 21. Communication from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, dated October 6, 2004. Case
File No. 1378-97. Annex 14 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
272
Annex 21. Communication from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, dated October 6, 2004. Case
File No. 1378-97. Annex 14 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
273
Annex 21. Communication from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, dated October 6, 2004. Case
File No. 1378-97. Annex 14 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.
274
Annex 21. Memorandum from the Public Prosecution Service’s Office of the District Attorney, dated September 22,
2005. Case File No. 1378-97. Annex 14 of the petitioners’ communication of December 13, 2007.