Part I.     I need information about massacres and other abuse of
Mayan Indians especially in or around the area of San Miguel
Ixtlahuacan or Tejutla, Department of San Marcos, Guatemala, during
the period 1988-90. The locations El Triunfo, La Cumbre and Solola may
also help. Some people who were killed in other incidents include
Gregorio Aguilar, Celso Ajpop, ?Beto? Mejia, his father Teodoro Mejia;
and a pastor named Efrain Ventura. Times before and after may also be
helpful.

Part II.     I need evidence of violence against Guatemalans who
return to their homes, especially in the highland areas.

Since the Peace Accords were signed in Guatemala, a number of
Guatemalan exiles have gone home. When they try to re-claim their
houses and lands, the people who stayed home during the civil war have
resisted handing over the property, partly because they just want it,
partly because they think they earned it by suffering through the hard
times, and partly because they think the returnees are associated with
the former guerrillas, while those who stayed are tied to the Civil
Defense Patrols, the military or the police. In other words, the
polarization of the civil war years is still a cause of violence. This
is what I would like to document in order to help a client whose
entire family was killed by the military in about 1989, when he was a
kid. Thank you in advance for your assistance with this research!

Two books on Guatemala that discuss the violence against Maya peoples,
their escape to Mexico and their return to the highlands are:

Paradise in Ashes by Beatriz Manz published by U. California Press in 2004.
  	It is rich in footnotes that may further your research

Return of Guatemala?s Refugeess: Reweaving the Torn by Clark Taylor,
published by Temple University in 1998 addresses the return
specifically

I saw no references to the exact places or people mentioned in your
question.  However, these books both address the topic of your
interest.

I am not a google researcher ? just a wannabe ? but could not resist
bringing these books to your attention.

libby

Cool! I'll look for them. Think they'll have them at Borders? (just
kidding). Thanks for the good tips.