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K'iche sorrow and hope. Introduction The community of Los Cimientos was displaced from their land after large scale massacres during the Guatemalan civil war in the 1980�s becoming one group among many of Guatemala�s internally displaced peoples. The fight of the people of Los Cimientos to regain their land is part of widespread struggle across Guatemala to build civil society and seek justice for the victims, as promised in the Peace Accords that ended the fighting in 1996.