Reyes Collin Gualip (C) is embraced by relatives before being sentenced to 6,060 years in prison on August 02, 2011 in Guatemala City. Collin was sentenced for the murder of 252 farmers in 1982, the killing was one of bloodiest slaughters during the 1960-96 civil war and occurred in the Dos Erres village.
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A relative of a victim of the slaugther of the villa Dos Erres holds a rose on August 2, 2011 in Guatemala City during the trial of military men involved.
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Relatives of victims of Guatemalaís 1960-96 civil war hold a banner with portraits of missing people during a march in Guatemala City in February 2011 on the 12th anniversary of the publication of the Truth Commission's report that signaled that more than 200,000 people died or disappeared during the 36-year civil war and held Guatemalaís Army responsible of 93 percent of the crimes.
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Two skeletons are seen in a common grave in Agua Blanca hamlet, Patzalan, Aguacatan, west of Guatemala City, part of the first exhumation of civil war victims carried out by the Guatemalan State.
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Indigenous women take part in a rally to demand the government of Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to give them an indemnization for being victims of the country's 36-year civil war (1960-1996), in the surroundings of the presidential palace in Guatemala City on May 4, 2010.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu (C) participates in a vigil for Vicente Menchu on January 31, 2010 in Guatemala City on the 30th anniversary of his death. Vicente Menchu was one of the 37 people killed in a military assault on the Spanish embassy in 1980 during the 1960-1996 Guatemalan civil war.
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Anthropologists dig up an area in hopes of finding the remains of numerous people that went missing during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), in Villa Lobos south of Guatemala City, on December 11, 2009. Although there have been over 1,000 disinterments and the remains of some 5,000 people have been found, this is the first excavation in search of the victims included in the Military Diaries.
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Aura Elena Farfan signals to the area that shall be dug up in hopes of finding the remains of her late brother, Ruben Amilcar Farfan, who was captured and went missing on May 15, 1984 during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), in Villa Lobos.
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