A sixth grade scholarship student studies typing in front of a mural of the massacres in her community.
The scholarship benefits
children of the survivors of the massacres of the 1980’s many of whom were orphaned and
received no education
themselves.
A sixth grader, Angelica Osorio Osorio studies typing in front of a mural of the massacres of Plan de Sanchez and Rio Negro.
Keeping the memory of
the atrocities alive is critical to having it never happen again.
ADIVIMA was instrumental in obtaining court permission to exhume the mass graves.
In the middle photo, survivors carry coffins containing the remains of family members exhumed in order to give them a proper Mayan burial.
In the Rio Negro massacre alone, one-hundred seven children and seventy women were murdered in one day.
Four other communities in the Rio Negro valley suffered the same fate. The survivors who fled to the hills were pursued for years by the military.
Children who fled their villages died of starvation and illness and many adults were killed by the military.
ADIVIMA carries a sign saying, “Justice! For our 73 brothers from Rio Negro disappeared on February 13, 1982 in the town of Xococ.” Survivors carry coffins with the remains of their family members exhumed from the massacre site in Xococ.
A month after the men were killed in Xococ, 70 women and 107 children from Rio Negro were massacred and dumped in a mass grave on the mountain of Pacoxom.
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