Bodies of 50 Probably Killed in ‘80s Found
From Times Wire Reports
Human rights officials said they had unearthed the remains of 50 people at a clandestine cemetery, apparent victims of Guatemala’s 35-year civil war that ended in 1996. The graves were near a parochial school in Zacualpa, a village 40 miles northwest of Guatemala City. The victims probably were killed between 1980 and 1982 during the regimes of Gen. Romeo Lucas Garcia and Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, said Mario Polanco, coordinator of the Mutual Support Group, an organization for the families of missing persons.
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