Word: chimaltenango
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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Guatemala's towns will eventually come back to life, but hundreds of thousands of survivors will be forever scarred by memories of the terror. At the U.S. military hospital set up near Chimaltenango, TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich vainly tried to comfort a weeping Indian girl; she cried not from the pain of a broken leg but because no one could tell her what had happened to her family. Hundreds of corpses were hastily buried in mass graves; some names were recorded but other bodies were interred with the briefest of notations, such as: "Found in Guatemala City Zone...
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