 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Munguva yeGuatemalan Civil War 19601996, mauto ehurumende akaita utsinye hwakasimbakurwisa vaMaya. Hurumende yaifunga kuti vaMaya vakanga vari muboka revapanduki vechiKomonisiti, izvo dzimwe nguva zvavaiva asi kazhinji kazhinji vakanga vasiri. Mauto eGuatemala akaita hondo nhatu dzakarondedzerwa sedzinoparadza rudzi. Yokutanga yakanga iri nheyo yenyika yakatsva iyo yakanga ichiperekedzwawo nokuurawa kwavanhu vakawanda, kubatanidza kunyorwa kwokumanikidzirwa kwavakomana vechiMaya muchiuto uko dzimwe nguva vaimanikidzirwa kutora rutivi mukuuraya vanhu mumisha yavo vamene yokumusha. Wechipiri wakanga uri wokutsvaka nokuparadza avo vakanga vapukunyuka ndokupukunyuka uto uye wechitatu wakanga uri wokumanikidzira kutamisirwa kwavapukunyuki kunzvimbo dzokudzidzisazve uye kupfuurira kutsvaka avo vakanga vatizira kumakomo. Mauto akashandisa chibharo chokuparadza rudzi chavakadzi navana somutoo unofungidzirwa. Vana vairohwa kusvikira vafa kupfurikidza nokuvarova pamadziro kana kuti kukandwa vari vapenyu mumakuva makuru umo vaizopwanywa noruremu rwavakafa vakura vakakandirwa pamusoro pavo. Vanhu vanofungidzirwa kuva 200 000, zvikurukuru vaMaya, vakanyangarika mukati meGuatemalan Civil War. Pashure pezvibvumirano zvorugare zva1996, muitiro wapamutemo wakatangwa kuti uzivise mutoro wapamutemo wokutambudzwa kwacho, uye kuwana nokuzivisa vanonyangarika. Muna 2013 aimbova mutungamiri Efraín Ríos Montt akawanikwa aine mhosva yekuparadza rudzi uye mhosva dzinopesana nevanhu, uye akatongerwa makore makumi masere mujeri. Mazuva gumi gare gare, Constitutional Court yeGuatemala yakabvisa mhaka yacho. 