Two of Petrona Brito's children sit for a picture in Nebaj, Guatemala, May 1, 1984. Nebaj forms part of the Ixil community along with neighboring towns San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul in the Quiché department. From 1981 to 1983, the Ixil community was subject to the destruction of their villages and the murder and disappearance of thousands from the army's scorched earth campaigns, leading the United Nations-sponsored Historical Clarifiaction Commision to determine the state's actions to be "acts of genocide against groups of Maya people".