35 Pérez Ampérez; Eustaquio lxtecoc González (or Eustaquio Yxtecoc González); Jorge Galeano Román; Rafael Depaz Tecú; Enrique Mendoza Sis; Dionisio Vachán (or Bachan), and Napoleón García de Paz (or Napoleón García Depaz or Napoleón García de Paz). These nine individuals had their hands tied and were then taken to the San Francisco cemetery in the village of Xeabaj. Napoleón García de Paz told the Court that he was forced to lie face down on the ground with his hands tied and was beaten on his back. At approximately 1:00 a.m., he managed to untie his hands and was the only one who managed to escape. 114 111. In 2004, members of the FAFG carried out excavations in the municipal cemetery of Xeabaj, but were unable to locate the skeletal remains they were looking for. The FAFG report explained that “the work area was very small because it was in the middle of the niches built in this place and the witnesses did not know the exact location of the burial site, so [they] were unable to find any skeletal remains.” 115 On December 22, 2014, the FAFG submitted to the Public Prosecutor’s Office an expert opinion on the forensic anthropological investigation carried out in the San Francisco Cemetery, Chuateguá village, on March 7, 2012 and March 20, 2013, without finding the remains sought. 116 To date, the whereabouts of the eight men are unknown. B.15. Execution of eight persons on March 2, 1983 112. On March 2, 1983, at around 5:00 a.m., a group of approximately 18 people who had fled to the mountains seeking refuge from the violence in the area, were surprised by members of the National Army while they were sleeping in a hut that served as a shelter. Upon seeing them, the soldiers started to shoot and some people managed to escape, among them Napoleón García de Paz, his wife and children. As they fled, Napoleón García was shot twice in the finger and foot. The following eight people from the village of Xeabaj were either shot dead or killed with machetes: five children, Rosa González Tecú aged 10, María Concepción Xitumul (or Maria Ixtococ Chitimul) aged 5, Héctor Rolando Alvarado García aged 4, Adela Florentina Alvarado García (or Delia Alvarado García) just one year old and a baby girl of unknown name between 0 and 3 months old; two women, Enriqueta Tecú (or Enriqueta Tecú Chiquito) and Lucía Xitumul Ixpancoc (or Luciana Xitumul Ixpancoc); and a man, Luciano Alvarado Xitumul (or Luciano Alvarado Chitimul). Their bodies were buried in a clandestine grave in the village of Xeabaj by neighbors and relatives. 117 113. In 2004, members of the FAFG excavated a mass grave and exhumed human remains, clothing, personal items and ballistic residues. After the respective analyses, it was concluded that six skeletal remains were recovered which were identified and coincide with six of the persons indicated above. The remains of Héctor Rolando Alvarado García and María Concepción Xitumul were not identified. 118 The forensic report indicated that some skeletons showed “circummortem trauma, as a result of violence inflicted on the individual at a time close to death, compatible with a gunshot wound to the head and blunt injuries to the thorax.” Finally, “[t]he mode of burial in the grave suggests that this was carried out by family members and/or neighbors, since the burial site had offerings associated with the bones and they were covered with ponchos to protect the deceased, and were laid at the bottom of the grave and not thrown into the grave.” 119 Cf. Statement of Napoleón García de Paz at the public hearing held on April 28, 2016. Cf. Report of the FAFG Forensic Anthropological Investigation of October 6, 2004 (evidence file, folios 1601 and 1606). 116 Cf. Report of the FAFG of June 5, 2014 (evidence file, folios 9247 to 9276). 117 Cf. Statement of Daniel Xitumul Cuxúm (husband of Lucía Xitumul Ixpancoc or Luciana Xitumul Ixpancoc, and father of María Concepción Xitumul Xitumul and of the baby girl of unknown name aged 0 to 3 months old) by affidavit on September 1, 2014 (evidence file, folio 5563); CEH, “Guatemala, Memory of Silence”, Cases submitted, Annex II, p. 156, and statement of Napoleón García de Paz at the public hearing held on April 28, 2016. 118 Cf. Report of the FAFG Forensic Anthropological Investigation of October 6, 2004 (evidence file, folios 1601, 1606, 1609, 1640 and 1641). 119 Cf. FAFG Report on the Forensic Anthropological Investigation of October 6, 2004 (evidence file, folios 1601, 1606, 1609, 1640 and 1641). 114 115