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of the FAFG identified the grave, which was part of a clandestine cemetery where the human
remains of Medardo Juárez and others were exhumed and identified. 123
B.20. Disappearance of Marcelo Sic Chen in December 1984
118. Between December 13 and 15, Marcelo Sic Chen arrived at the colony of Chichupac in order
to seek “amnesty and turn himself in.” There, he was received by a military commissioner who
handed him over to members of the National Army. He was then taken to the military post in
Rabinal and to date his whereabouts are unknown.
B.21. Execution of Silvestre Sic and Raymunda Corazón on December 20, 1984
119. On the morning of December 20, 1984, a group of soldiers and members of the PAC entered
a house in the village of Chichupac where Silvestre Sic (or Silvestre Sic Xutumul), father of
Marcelo Sic Chen (supra para. 118), and Raymunda Corazón (or Raymunda Sical Corazón)were
staying, and executed them with firearms. Their mutilated bodies were found the following day
by neighbors who proceeded to bury them in a latrine near their home. 124 In 2002, members of
the FAFG identified the grave, which was part of a clandestine cemetery. During the exhumation
process, one of the corpses was identified as Raymunda Corazón by Francisco Sic Chen;
however, the forensic anthropological report states that it was not identified by the expert
analysis. On the other hand, the remains of Silvestre Sic were exhumed and identified by means
of the expert analysis. 125
B.22. Execution of Efraín García de Paz on August 17, 1986
120. Efraín García de Paz, brother of Juana García Depaz, was away from the area for
approximately three years. When he returned, on August 17, 1986, on the way from his home
in Chichupac to the municipal seat of Rabinal, he was intercepted and executed. According to
Juana García Depaz, the person who killed her brother was a civilian patrolman, although she
has also indicated that it was a “G2” of the Army. However, the Inter-American Commission
concluded in its Merits Report that it was a “judicial officer.” According to Juana García, she and
her relatives collected Efraín García’s body and buried him in the cemetery located in Rabinal. 126
C. Investigations
121. The evidence shows that two case files were opened related to the investigation of the
events of the massacre of January 8, 1982: i) Case File No. 001-2005-95839 before the Special
Cases and Human Rights Violations Unit of the Public Prosecutor's Office, 127 which was opened
statement rendered by María Concepción García Depaz by affidavit on December 11, 2014 (evidence file, folios 5694
and 5695).
123
Cf. Record of exhumation of bodies of April 9, 2002 (evidence file, folios 1938 to 1941), and Report of the Forensic
Anthropological Investigation of the FAFG of December 18, 2002 (evidence file, folios 2037).
124
Cf. Statement of Pedro Corazón Osorio (nephew of Raymunda Sical Corazón), who was accompanied by Francisco
Sic Chen (son of Silvestre Sic Xutumul), rendered by affidavit on December 16, 2014(evidence file, folio 5814), and
statement of Francisco Sic Chen before the assistant prosecutor on July 26, 2001 (evidence file, folio 792).
125
Cf. Record of exhumation of bodies of April 9, 2002(evidence file, folios 1938 to 1941), and Report of Forensic
Anthropological Investigation of the FAFG of December 18, 2002 (evidence file, folio 2037).
126
Cf. Complaint filed by Juana García Depaz before the departmental assistant of the Human Rights Ombudsman on
May 9, 1995 (evidence file, folios 1290 and 1291), and Statement of Juana García Depaz of March 28, 2007 (evidence
file, folio 1423).
127
As the petitioners explained in a brief submitted during the proceedings before the Commission, from the time of a
complaint filed in 1993 until 2005, the investigation was conducted by the District Prosecutor's Office of the Public
Prosecutor's Office of the Department of Baja Verapaz under File 1083-95 M.P. and File M.P. 247/1999/492, with Case
No. 255-93 Of. 4 before the Criminal Court of First Instance for Drug-related Activity and Environmental Crimes of Baja
Verapaz. File M.P. 247/1999/492 was added to Case No. 255-93 Of. 4 on September 1, 2005, according to an official
letter from the assistant prosecutor of the District Prosecutor’s Office of Baja Verapaz, addressed to the judge of the
Criminal Court of First Instance for Drug-related Activity and Environmental Crimes of Baja Verapaz (evidence file, folio
8772). Case No. 001-2005-95839 was apparently processed before the Special Cases and Human Rights Violations Unit
of the Public Prosecution Service in Guatemala City since 2005. Cf. Brief of December 13, 2007 submitted by the