Education and Health Ministries will receive 14 and 10.6 percent of the budget respectively, while the army and police forces will nab 10.7 percent. But the funds' discretionary nature will be checked by periodic congressional reviews of executive accounts. Clandestine Cemetery Discovered in Children's Park Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, December 6. Workers discovered a clandestine cemetery while remodeling a playground in Rabinal, Baja Verapaz December 3. Workers ceased their labors and called a local judge after uncovering several skeletons at the site, which had housed a military garrison in 1982 and 83, said municipal authorities.
Local residents say they always suspected killings took place on the site.
This week, the EAFG also located a clandestine grave in Mactzul, Chichicastenango, Quiche province believed to contain the corpses of six campesinos. Due to their heavy workload, the forensics experts say they cannot begin excavation of the site until February, 1996. More than 150 indigenous leaders from all over the Americas concluded an 11 day spiritual gathering this week conducted through ceremonies in various Mayan religious centers throughout the country. Indigenous leaders from as far as Canada and Argentina led the inauguration of a new cycle in the sacred Mayan calendar with ceremonies in favor of world peace and against the destruction of the environment. The elders came together not only to exchange information and plan to work together, but also to fulfill the prophecies that coincide with the beginning of a new epoch in the Mayan calendar beginnimg in 2012.