41 172. 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.

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