Search for remains of indigenous children killed in Guatemala massacre blocked by residents

Indigenous leaders meet after local authorities prevented an exhumation at the site where children from the Chiul Indigenous community massacred in Guatemala's civil war are believed to be buried, in Nebaj, Guatemala September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Residents of a Mayan community in Guatemala prevented experts on Tuesday from beginning to exhume the remains of more than 100 children believed to have been buried clandestinely in a former military garrison during the country's civil war in the 1980s.

The search efforts in the village of Chiul, more than 120 miles (200 km) from Guatemala City, were scheduled to begin early on Tuesday morning but were suspended after residents disrupted the plans without offering an explanation for their opposition.