… months after Rios Montt seized power through military coup d’etat. [9] No doubt, the ever-increasing number of Maya … truth commission findings, 14.5 percent of Ixil Maya and 16 percent of Achi Maya were killed during La Violencia. [16] … army-ordered PAC violence began within the community. On May 24, 1982 (exactly two months after the coup), the army …