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fields while the majority were killed in the body of the church. When the government changed, they decided not to bury the bodies. The bones of those who had died outside were stacked on tables, but the bodies of those inside were left where they were murdered. For many years after the massacre, visitors could smell the rotting flesh from inside the church. But, by 1997, all that was left was the sad remains of the bodies left after a massacre.
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