People watch forensic anthropologists exhume graves in a former military base in Cotzál, Guatemala.

Members of the local community attend an exhumation in Xe'Xuxcap, Guatemala.

Human remains are revealed during an exhumation in a clandestine burial ground where forensics anthropologists found 172 bodies, in Santa Avelina, Cotzál, Guatemala. Nearly half the bodies found were of children under 12.

Feliciana Bernal, who is looking for her one-year-old son who died more than 30 years previously, stands between trenches dug by forensic anthropologists in Xe'Xuxcap, Nebaj, western Guatemala.

Remains found by forensic anthropologists in a clandestine cemetery of Xe'Xuxcap, Nebaj, Guatemala, lie in labeled paper bags, ready to be sent to Guatemala City for analysis.

Relatives of the victims grieve beside bags containing remains discovered in a mass grave near the former military base at Xolosinay, Cotzál, Guatemala.

Ixil women listen to the translation from Spanish into their native language, during the genocide trial against Ríos Montt, in Guatemala City.

Former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt testifies during his trial for genocide and crimes against humanity, in Guatemala City.

A skull and other remains found in a clandestine grave are studied by forensics experts in Guatemala City. The needles indicate four bullet wounds, which were the cause of death.

Portraits of victims and people missing during the civil war lie, as a protest, in front of police at the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala, Guatemala City, during discussion of legislation aimed at freeing dozens of military officials and prohibiting future prosecutions for war crimes.

Firewood traders sell wood beside a public laundry sink in a street in Nebaj, Guatemala.

According to witnesses, the sinks were used by the military in torturing people in order to extract information and to compel them to join the paramilitary Civil Patrol (PAC), in which they were forced at gunpoint to commit acts of violence on the community.

Jacinta, Elena de Paz's daughter, plays in her home in Sajbata, Nebaj, Guatemala. Elena is the only survivor of her family of the 1980s genocide and, together with 11 other women, she testified during the trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, in 2013.

Clothes and personal items found in the graves of a clandestine cemetery in Santa Avelina, Cotzál, are exhibited in the hope that relatives will recognize them, so that remains can be identified and buried in a named grave.

Members of the community of Xecol, a village in Chajul, Guatemala, wait to receive the exhumed remains of a victim murdered by the military in 1986.

Pedro Rivera walks in the funeral procession for the 31 victims of the Xecax massacre, perpetrated by the military in 1982. His aunt, Magdalena Rivera (pictured left) was among them.

Relatives await the burial of remains of victims murdered by the military in 1986, recovered in an exhumation in Xecol, Chajul, Guatemala.

A procession makes its way to the cemetery in Finca Estrella Polar, Guatemala, to bury the 77 victims of a massacre that took place in Covadonga two weeks after Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in 1982.

Petrona Chavez (60; right), Magdalena Brito (74; left) and Jacinta Santiago Brito (35; center) from Xeo, in Nebaj, Guatemala are survivors of the 1980s genocide.

A man looks out from the house of Juan Gomez Sambrano, while inside relatives take part in a wake in his honor. Juan Gomez was killed by the military during the massacre of the village of Chisis in Cotzál, Guatemala in February 1982. His body was exhumed by forensic anthropologists in 2013.

Relatives of the Cruz Pacheco family take part in a wake in honor of nine victims of the massacre of the village of Chisis in Cotzál, Guatemala in February 1982.

Relatives of the Cruz Pacheco family take part in an Evangelical service to commemorate nine victims of the massacre of the village of Chisis in Cotzál, Guatemala in February 1982.

Women prepare food for a group wake in Ixtupil, Nebaj, Guatemala to honor 47 people who died—most likely from malnutrition, disease and hypothermia—between 1982 and 1984 while hiding in the mountains from military persecution. Their remains were exhumed in 2013.

A relative of one of the victims attends a group wake in Ixtupil, Nebaj, Guatemala to honor 47 people who died—most likely from malnutrition, disease and hypothermia—between 1982 and 1984 while hiding in the mountains from military persecution. Their remains were exhumed in 2013.

Relatives view the remains of a victim of a massacre that took place in Covadonga two weeks after Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in 1982, which has been exhumed by forensic anthropologists.

The remains of 172 victims of state repression in Guatemala during the 1980s lie stored in boxes, after being exhumed in 2014 in Santa Avelina, Cotzál, Guatemala. Nearly half the remains corresponded to children under the age of 12.

A procession makes its way to the cemetery in Finca Estrella Polar, Guatemala, to bury the 77 victims of a massacre that took place in Covadonga two weeks after Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in 1982.

Led by a b'alvatztiixh, an Ixil spiritual guide (center), relatives participate in a Mayan ceremony honoring their loved ones, in Ixtupil, Nebaj, Guatemala. The 47 people died—most likely from malnutrition, disease and hypothermia—between 1982 and 1984, while hiding in the mountains from military persecution. Their remains were exhumed in 2013.

The remains of victims of a 1982 massacre in Xecax lie in the Nebaj Public Cemetery, Guatemala. Of the 31 bodies returned to the people of Nebaj, only eight could be identified, but the community afforded the others the same honors.

Elena Ramírez weeps during the burial of two daughters who were murdered by the military in 1986, in Xecol, Chajul, Guatemala.

The remains of three civilians murdered by the military in 1986 are buried in Xecol, Chajul, Guatemala.

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