People kneel to pray around skeletons emerging from the dirt as a mass grave is exhumed in Tabil, Guatemala, on July 4, 1997, by a team of forensic anthropologists from the Human Rights Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Guatemala City. Thirteen people were hurriedly buried in the grave after being executed in April 1982 by government soldiers.<br />
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The exhumation was part of work in the Maya K'iche' community carried out by the Catholic Church's Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory (REHMI).<br />
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The man kneeling is Fr. Rigoberto Perez, a Catholic priest in the diocese.