Houses are seen next to a road near Uspantan, in the Quiche region, Guatemala, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. Forensic anthropologists have begun to use DNA sampling and analysis to identify victims of human rights abuses committed during this country's 36-year-long civil war that left 200,000 dead and 40,000 disappeared
In this picture taken Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, forensic anthropologists work at a mass grave containing nine male bodies allegedly killed by the Guatemalan army during the civil war, in Uspantan in the Quiche region, Guatemala.
In this Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 photo, forensic anthropologist Gabriela Padilla, right, takes a DNA sampling from Tomasa Sacarias, 72, who arrived to a mass grave in search of her disappeared son, Tomas Sacarias, who went missing during the civil war, in Uspantan, in the Quiche region, Guatemala.
In this Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 photo, the skeletons of two of nine men, who were allegedly tortured and massacred by the Guatemalan army during the civil war, sit in a mass grave in Uspantan, in the Quiche region, Guatemala. Forensic anthropologists have begun to use DNA sampling and analysis to identify victims of human rights abuses committed during this country's 36-year-long civil war that left 200,000 dead and 40,000 disappeared
In this Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 photo, forensic anthropologists Edgar Telon, right, and Selket Callejas, eat breakfast as they take a break from exhuming the bodies of nine men in a mass grave who were allegedly tortured and massacred by the Guatemalan army during the civil war in Uspantan, in the Quiche region, Guatemala. Forensic anthropologists have begun to use DNA sampling and analysis to identify victims of human rights abuses committed during this country's 36-year-long civil war that left 200,000 dead and 40,000 disappeared.
Finding Guatemala's war dead - 31 May 09
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