17 sister, grandmother, aunts and all her cousins, even the babies, in these events. Her father had been murdered previously. The following day, she was able to see the corpses, but only for a short time, because the soldiers granted three hours to bury her next of kin. The men buried what remained of the victims in a trench; the bodies were unrecognizable. After the massacre, the witness remained in the village, in her aunt’s house. During the day, they came to the village to cook and, at night, they returned to the wilds, because the soldiers kept returning to see if anyone remained in the village. They lost everything; her mother’s house, their clothes, their food and their animals. Before the massacre, they had hens, pigs and crops. The witness only had the torn clothes that she was wearing. Although she was poor, she had her natural parents. It is not the same to live as an orphan, without the comfort provided by her mother and without a father to care for her and love her. After the massacre, she wanted to die and, to continue living, she held onto the words of her aunt: “don’t kill yourself, you must continue to struggle and, God knows, one day justice will be done.” She was unable to live happily and peacefully; she was treated badly because she was an orphan; she had no one to pay for her education, food or clothes like other children do. After three months she went to Rabinal and, for four years, worked for different families, washing, cooking and looking after children, for which she was paid three quetzals a month. In 1986, she went to live in Guatemala City. She never met anyone from the village of Plan de Sánchez and lost her links to her community. She did not want to attend the exhumation of the remains of her next of kin in Plan de Sánchez in 1994 or know anything about it. She cannot forget what happened to her parents. The death of her loved ones and all she has endured has weakened her. She has had heart problems and had to be operated on twice; she herself paid for the operations with her earnings. She has received no help from the State. She now has four children who are affected by her grief. A short time ago, she took her husband’s machete and pointed it at her neck to kill herself, but her husband stopped her, telling her not to do this for the sake of their children. It is time that justice is done; that those people should pay for the harm they did to her parents, her grandmother, to all the innocent children and those that could not be born. It is time for Mayans to have the same rights as mestizos, to be listened to, and their traditions appreciated. She appears before the Court to support all the victims of the Plan de Sánchez massacre. She has not come just for herself, but for all those who lost loved ones, for the whole Mayan race in Guatemala, for all those who are unable to defend themselves, for all those who are unable to come forward to express their grief as she is doing. She wants justice to be done; reparation to be made; her testimony to be heard and considered, so that it makes a difference. She appears before the Court with her grief and knows that if all those present put themselves in her place, they would be unable to endure what she is feeling. d) Expert report of Augusto Willemsen-Díaz, lawyer, international expert in the human rights of indigenous peoples