On March 18, 2011, representatives of the community and cooperative of Santa Maria Tzejá filed a complaint with the Public Ministry in Playa Grande, Ixcán, regarding the unlawful search of cooperative property by a Guatemalan military unit on March 5. Military presence in the community has been noted during at least two occasions during recent weeks, coinciding with the season of commemorations for the massacres committed by the Guatemalan military in the Ixcán in 1982.