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On Saturday 21st May 1988, The Guatemalan army and the goverment of Vinicio Cerezo carried out a massacre in the village of Chiul, belonging to the municipality of Cunén, in the department of Quiché. They kidnapped hundreads of Ajq'ijab' -wise day keepers and lords of time- and 116 girls and boys- the wons and daughters of the Ajq'ijab -who were taken to the military base of the village. For several hours the soldiers tortured the detainees and raped the women. The 116 girls and boys were tortured and thrown into a well full of water and the faeces of the army where little by little they drowned and suffocated. Only one child survived, the Mayan philosopher Arnulfo Oxlaj.

The surviving child of the masacre of 21st May, 1988 in Chiul, Cunén, Quiché, Arnulfo Oxlaj, is a human rights activist and has received death threats.

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May these wounds be the seed to sow the justice and peace that the Mayan people deserve. 

The 21st May, 2023 marked the 35th anniversay of the massacre in Chiul, Cunén, Quiché in which Arnulfo Oxlaj, a Maya K’iche’ child, was the only survivor among 116 children, sons and daughters of the Ajq’ijab’, spiritual guides, wise day keepers and lords of time, as wel as among the hundreds of Mayan women and men

who were tortured and murdered with great violence and viciousness, causing deep wounds in the only survivor of this massacre, as well as in the families of the victims and in the Mayan population in general. 

This campaign is to honour the memory of 115 girls and boys murdered on 21st May 1988.

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