Guatemala to search for bodies of Indigenous children believed killed in civil war massacre

FILE PHOTO: A vendor (L) and a woman walk past a poster on the streets of Guatemala City May 15, 2013. A Guatemalan court ordered the government on May 13, 2013 to apologize for atrocities committed against indigenous people in the country's civil war after former dictator Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.The poster reads, "We have genocide." REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan authorities will begin efforts on Tuesday to recover the bodies of dozens of Indigenous children believed to have been buried clandestinely at a former military garrison in the 1980s during the country's civil war.

Excavations at the site will be led by the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation and the Human Rights Prosecutor's Office - part of efforts to seek justice for the hundreds of thousands of victims of the armed conflict that lasted from 1960 to 1996.