Guatemalan Public Ministry Initiates Excavation Proceedings in Tzanabaj in Search 116 Children Massacred During Civil War

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Arnulfo Gómez Oxlaj (Maya K’iche’) is the only survivor of a massacre of an entire Chiul community, including 116 Maya K’iche’ children, carried out by the Guatemalan army in 1988. Recently Oxlaj was notified by the prosecutor’s office for the human rights section of the Guatemalan Public Ministry about the beginning of excavation proceedings in Canton Tzanabaj, formerly Chiul in the Cunen municipality of the Quiche department. The exhumation process is to begin on September 28, 2021, to follow up on the investigation work within the file MP001-2018.6398.