World IN BRIEF : GUATEMALA : Remains of 167 People Are Found

Anthropologists have found the burned remains of 167 people massacred by the army in a clandestine cemetery in the highlands state of Quiche, human rights officials said. The remains were found in 17 large plastic bags in Agua Fria, a village about 50 miles northwest of Guatemala City, said Mario Polanco of the Guatemalan National Human Rights Coordinating Committee. He said the victims were killed in April 1982 when the army swept through, burning villages and massacring suspected leftists. More than 100,000 Guatemalans have been killed, and an additional 40,000 have disappeared, in the nation’s 34-year civil war between the army and the rebel Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity. Human rights groups blame the vast majority of the deaths on the army.