Coffin

A man carries the coffin of a villager killed during a massacre by the Guatemalan army in 1981 in Cocop, Nebaj, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest of Guatemala City, in this photograph taken on June 10, 2008. After the exhumation of 76 villagers killed on April 16, 1981, in Cocop, a team of forensic anthropologists made a scientific study of the bones and clothes of the massacred villagers to identify their remains. After more than two years of study, the anthropologists gave the remains to the victims’ relatives for burial.

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