They realized that the Secretary-General ... had not been wrong in seeking to preserve the Commission 's credibility by looking beyond considerations of sovereignty and entrusting this task to three scholars from other countries , in contrast to what had been done in Argentina and Chile after the military dictatorships there had ended . The commission contracted the assistance of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team to investigate the controversial massacre in the town of El Mozote , and exhume the remains of victims from this particular massacre in an attempt to figure out how many casualties were recorded . Exhumation took place from 13 to 17 November 1992 under the supervision of Dr. Clyde Snow , Dr. Robert H. Kirschner , Dr. Douglass Scott , and Dr. John Fitzpatrick of the Santa Tecla Institute of Forensic Medicine and of the Commission for the Investigation of Criminal Acts . In the exhumation the doctors worked alongside Patricia Bernardi , Mercedes Doretti and Luis Fondebrider of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team . The process discovered skeletal remains of at least 143 , however they noted that there may have been a greater number of casualties . The forensic report supported victim testimonies that " victims were summarily executed , " and that at least 24 people participated in the shootings
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