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Fri 03 Mar 2003Exhuming Guatemala's brutal past
Its civil war ended six years ago, but Guatemala is still dealing with the aftermath of atrocity, reports Catherine Foley
The church is dim except for the night-lights, which have been placed on top of 33 small wooden coffins. The plain timber boxes are stacked one on top of the other, near the altar in the earthen-floored building. A mourning ceremony to bury the bodies of those exhumed recently from a mass grave is about to begin in the village of Xecotz in the highlands of Guatemala.
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