Paulina Chen Osorio, 44, survivor from Rio Negro, holds photographs of her late parents Pedro Chen and mother Narcisa Osorio Lopez inside a special room-turned-shrine in her home. She hopes the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG) identifies and returns her father Pedro Chen, and brothers Daniel (15), Carlos (7) and Francisco (6) who were either killed or abducted during the May 14, 1982, Los Encuentros Massacre and possibly exhumed in 2012 from grave XV at the UN's CREOMPAZ training center, formerly Coban's Military Zone 21. During the massacre, Guatemalan soldiers and civil patrolmen killed 79 community members from Rio Negro who were hiding here after the previous two massacres of February and March of the same year. Eyewitnesses assured that at least 15 other community members were abducted in a helicopter. As of May 2016, CREOMPAZ's grave XV has rendered positive DNA matches of the remains of two victims abducted in the helicopter on such day. Paulina is not sure if her father and siblings were killed in Los Encuentros or taken by Helicopter. Her mother Narcisa Osorio Lopez was killed along with 176 other women and children during the March 13, 1982, massacre at Pak'oxom peak near Rio Negro. Paulina lives in Pacux, the resettlement village outside Rabinal where the former Achi Mayan residents of Rio Negro were forcibly relocated after the massacres and destruction of their village and dozens more due to the flooding of the Chixoy river basin and construction of the Chixoy Hydro-electric project. Pacux, Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. May 20, 2016.
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