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PHOTOS: Remains of Exhumed Guatemalan War Victims Returned to Families

Categories: Latin America, Guatemala, History, Human Rights, Photography, War & Conflict
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. [1]

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 [1] on MiMundo.org [2], 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 [3], and were never seen again.”

The victims were exhumed [4] from a mass grave in May 2012 and returned to their families on November 22, 2013.