Exhuming a Painful Past

Anthropologists dig up Guatemalan massacre sites as victims' families watch

By MARION LLOYD

Xiquín Senahí, Guatemala

A fierce tropical sun beats down on the gaping pit where several Mayan villagers are digging for their dead. Under the watchful eye of a team of forensic anthropologists, the men in the hole clear away the dirt in small spadefuls, leaving several rectangular...

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