PHOTOS: Remains of Exhumed Guatemalan War Victims Returned to Families
Written bySilvia Viñas
Isabela Ja (forefront) and her husband Celso Chiquin, smile after receiving the skeletal remains of their son Baldomero Chiquin Ja. Photo by James Rodriguez, used with permission.
In a new photo essay on MiMundo.org, photojournalist James Rodríguez follows residents of Pambach, Guatemala, as they receive the skeletal remains of six wartime victims who were “taken by the army after a military incursion to the village on June 3rd, 1982, during the de facto government of Efraín Ríos Montt, and were never seen again.”
The victims were exhumed from a mass grave in May 2012 and returned to their families on November 22, 2013.
Written bySilvia Viñas
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