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	Rigoberta Menchú - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum (born in Chimel, Guatemala, January 9, 1959) is a member of the indigenous Quiché Maya group, author of the widely-read but disputed autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchú (1987).
		Menchu claimed that her father would not send her to school, claiming that it would turn her into a "ladino", or light skinned ruling class, and that it would make here forget her Mayan roots.
		Menchu had also claimed that her younger brother Petrocinio was killed by elements of Guatemala's right-wing military and had been burned alive as she and her family were forced to watch in the town’s plaza.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rigoberta_Menchu_Tum (744 words)

	Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum lectures at UI Nov. 12
		Menchu was labeled a communist and several attempts on her life and her associates' lives were made by Guatemalan authorities when she began working through the Committee of Peasant Unity and speaking on behalf of her people nearly two decades ago.
		Menchu was born in abject poverty in 1959.
		Menchu, who penned her life story in "I, Rigoberta Menchu, An Indian Woman in Guatemala," published in 1983, has been a human rights activist for more than two decades and is a personal advisor to the UNESCO Director-General.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/1998/november/1106menchu.html (547 words)

	Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Quiche Mayan
		Rigoberta Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous people.
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a Guatemalan leader internationally known for her work in the promotion of the defense of human rights, peace and Indigenous Peoples' rights.
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum was born in 1959 in the village of Chimel, Guatemala, a community continuing the millennium-old Maya-Quiché culture.
	www.indians.org /welker/menchu.htm (1229 words)

	Latin America Trek: Rigoberta Menchu's Story
		Rigoberta did go to live in the city with ladinos once, but she was greatly humiliated and was paid almost nothing.
		Rigoberta's mother, father, brother and sister were among those that occupied the Guatemalan Congress at one point to protest the kidnappings and tortures.
		Rigoberta was able to accept his death because he had been at risk for so long and at least the way he died was much better then if he had fallen into the hands of the government.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/latinamerica/rigoberta/rigoberta_story.html (2139 words)

	The Attack on Rigoberta Menchú
		Rigoberta made it perfectly clear that she was a supporter and activist of a peasant organisation and guerrilla group.
		Rigoberta was not telling the story of a triumphant peasant rebellion but rather of a movement which had suffered cruel repression and sometimes failed to get its message through.
		Rigoberta was trying to explain how cruel and murderous the Guatemalan military were and how bad the situation was in her country for her people.
	www.versobooks.com /verso_info/menchu.shtml (2757 words)

	The Chronicle: Colloquy: Background
		Menchu's hometown, reports that key events detailed in the autobiography could not have taken place, and that the author's description of herself and her family conflicts with historical records.
		Menchu's book offers up horrible stories of life on Guatemala's plantations, where she says that as a child she was forced to work for up to eight months a year, and where she claims to have seen her two older brothers die of malnutrition.
		Menchu because "that would violate the right of a native person to tell her story in her own way." However, he says he felt compelled to continue his work after he realized that not all Mayans sided with the guerrillas, and yet those Mayans "were often discounted" by foreigners.
	chronicle.com /colloquy/99/menchu/background.htm (2733 words)

	ipedia.com: Rigoberta Menchú Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum was the recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, given "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigeno...
		Menchu states that she began migrant farm work at age 5 under conditions that killed siblings and friends.
		Menchu is a member of the indigenous Quiche Mayan group.
	www.ipedia.com /rigoberta_menchu.html (279 words)

	CNN - Guatemalan author defends life story -- but hints critics may be right - January 21, 1999
		MEXICO CITY (CNN) -- Guatemalan Indian activist Rigoberta Menchu denounced those who have questioned the life story that helped her win a Nobel Peace Prize, but hinted Wednesday that the book could be -- as they suggest -- a historical composite rather than an autobiography.
		Menchu became a celebrity after the 1983 publication of "I, Rigoberta Menchu," in which she told of a childhood as a poor Indian caught up in a bloody civil war.
		Menchu said Wednesday she had to rely on verbal accounts of what happened to her family because the whereabouts of her parents' and brothers' bodies was not known.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9901/21/menchu.01/index.html (634 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Rigoberta Menchu, the Quiche Indian awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is a courageous and charismatic woman who has risen above her meager beginnings and suffering to advocate a peaceful, nonconfrontational end to Guatemala's 30-year-old civil war, a Boston resident and a visitor, who know her well, said yesterday.
		Born in 1959, Menchu was raised in a family of six in the small village of Uspanadan in the western Guatemalan highlands, where most of the country's indigenous population lives.
		But Rigoberta Menchu was not directly involved in the work until after her mother, father and brother were killed in separate tragic circumstances in 1980 and 1981.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1992/1992c.html (726 words)

	Rigoberta Menchu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan activist for the rights of the indigenous people and a winner of Nobel Peace Prize, was born in 1959 in a small Guatemalan village of Chimel located in the northern highlands.
		Rigoberta's father became a leader in the peasant movement opposing this action and began a series of petitions and protests to secure lands for Indigenous people who had been living on them.
		Rigoberta's mother, also a leader in her community and a healer, was kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed the following year.
	www.uic.edu /depts/owa/history_month_97/menchu.html (489 words)

	Liar, Rigoberta Menchu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Central to Rigobertaâs story â” and the supposed source of her Marxism â” is a land dispute in which her impoverished family, working for slave wages on plantations, is intimidated and oppressed by wealthy landowners of European descent.
		Rigoberta Menchuâs translator and literary collaborator, the French feminist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, recognized this fact in her introduction to I, Rigoberta Menchu: âHer life story is an account of contemporary history.
		Rigoberta thus provides a model with which American minority and female students are meant to identify: They, too, are oppressed like her; they, too, can make victimology a basis for group solidarity.
	www.boundless.org /1999/departments/isms/a0000074.html (1685 words)

	Special - Rigoberta Menchu Tum: The Truth That Challenges the Future
		The testimony of Rigoberta Menchu has the value of representing the story not just of a witness but rather the personal experience of a protagonist and the interpretation of that which her own eyes saw and wept, that which her own ears heard, and that which they were told.
		The testimony of Rigoberta Menchu has the bias and the courage of a victim who, in addition to what she personally suffered, had a right to assume as her own personal story the atrocities that her people lived through.
		That path took Rigoberta Menchu to the Nobel Peace Prize, and this contributed, in an effective way, to the opening of the road to peace in Guatemala, and the recognition of the situation and the indigenous demands expressed in the declaration of the International Year and Decade of Indigenous Peoples.
	www.fhrg.org /mench1.htm (769 words)

	I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar
		The Menchus were a poor Mayan family living on the margins of a country from which they had been dispossessed by the Spanish conquistadors, whose descendants are known as ladinos, and who try to drive the Menchus and other Indian peasants off unclaimed land that they had cultivated.
		Rigobertas response to this exposure of her lies has been, on the one hand, "no comment" and, on the other, to add another liethe denial that she had anything to do with the book that made her famous.
		The fictional story of Rigoberta Menchu is a piece of Communist propaganda designed to incite hatred of Europeans, westerners, and the societies they have built, and to build support for Communist and terrorist organizations at war with the democracies of the West.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=1186 (1973 words)

	Rigoberta Menchú: Liar
		Rigoberta infers that her father was an innocent killed by the army because of his participation in a political demonstration.
		Certainly Rigoberta was a representative of her people, but hiding behind that was a more partisan role, as a representative of the revolutionary movement, and hiding behind that was an even more unsettling possibility: that she represented the audiences whose assumptions about indigenas she mirrored so effectively.
		Exposing problems in Rigoberta’s story was to expose how supporters have subliminally used it to clothe their own contradictions, in a Durkheimian case of society worshiping itself.
	www.academia.org /campus_reports/1999/january_1999_6.html (1696 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar by David Horowitz
		The Menchus were not part of the landless poor, and Rigoberta had no brother who starved to death, at least none that her own family could remember.
		The fictional life of Rigoberta Menchu is a piece of Communist propaganda designed to incite hatred of Europeans and Westerners, and the societies they have built, and to organize support for Communist and terrorist organizations at war with the democracies of the West.
		Rigoberta Menchu made a fool of the credulous defenders of Third World-ism on the Nobel Prize committee, and of her feckless academic sponsors at Stanford and other universities, all of whom were looking for such a fraud to legitimate their fantasies.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1193 (2547 words)

	Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Rigoberta Menchu Tum was born in 1959 in northwestern Guatemala to a Quiche-Mayan family.
		When she was young, a couple of her siblings and friends died because of unsafe labor conditions and extreme poverty.
		In 1992, Rigoberta received the Nobel Peace Prize, allowing her to return to Guatemala and work to make the treatment of her people and others better.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/menchutum.html (228 words)

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		In this regard it is not that important if Rigoberta herself was illiterate and did not speak Spanish, because in fact the great majority of Indian women living in villages in Guatemala are illiterate and at best speak a few words of Spanish.
		Is it really critical if Rigoberta's brother was burnt to death by the Guatemalan army, as her text indicates, or whether his body was burnt after he had been shot dead by the same army, as some of Stoll's informants claim?
		I don't blame Rigoberta Menchú for not emphasizing those in her text; that was not her purpose.
	www.smcm.edu /users/jrrogachevsky/stollrev.html (2594 words)

	1992 Interview with Rigoberta Menchu Tum
		At twenty years of age, Rigoberta Menchu had already lost her father, her mother and a brother as a result of the indiscriminate violence exercised by the armed forces of Guatemala.
		Her father, Vicente Menchu, along with other indigenous, was burned alive by the army when he participated in the peaceful takeover of the Spanish embassy.
		Rigoberta Menchu: I was born in a family where Papa struggled for 22 years for the piece of land where we were born.
	www.indians.org /welker/menchu2.htm (2836 words)

	Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Biography
		Rigoberta Menchú was born on January 9, 1959 to a poor Indian peasant family and raised in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture.
		In 1980, she figured prominently in a strike the CUC organized for better conditions for farm workers on the Pacific coast, and on May 1, 1981, she was active in large demonstrations in the capital.
		Stoll’s critical examination of Rigoberta’s autobiography, based on local interviews and documentary sources, shows that parts of her own and her family history are not correct, even when she speaks as an eyewitness of events described.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1992/tum-bio.html (1017 words)

	[04-07-99] Mary Jo McConahay, Rigoberta Menchu's Truth
		Later I came to realize that Menchu's accounts -- of her mother's torture, her brother's assassination -- were examples, not even the worst examples, of the Guatemalan army's efforts to cleanse the countryside of Indians who might sympathize with leftist rebels.
		In the years that followed, with publication of her book "I, Rigoberta Menchu," and in church basements and living-room meetings, she came to stand for those who remained unheard, seeking attention for massacres the world was ignoring.
		For all the contention, an aspect of solidarity arises: "To attack Menchu's prestige is to attack the prestige of all Guatemala's indigenous people, because it is she who represents them before the world," Congressman Aroldo Quej told the local press.
	www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/5.07/990407-menchu.html (836 words)

	I, Rigoberta Menchu
		Menchu describes in horrific detail the murders of her brother, father, and mother at the hands of the Guatemalan Army.
		Rigoberta Menchu, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her on the 500th anniversary of the European colonization of the Americas, is a Guatemalan indigenous rights activist.
		Menchu's voice is still speaking today as her country reorganizes into a fragile democracy for the betterment of the lives of all the Guatemalan people.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/irigobertamenchu.html (3963 words)

	The My Hero Project - Rigoberta Menchu Tum
		Rigoberta Menchú, as so many other indigenous people did, lost members of her family from murders orchestrated by the Ladinos government.
		In the end, though the stories depicted in I, Rigoberta Menchú is not her own true story, it is an epitome of the story of all poor Guatemalans.
		Rigoberta Menchú's statement in response to the September 11 attacks.
	www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=r_menchu (1378 words)

	Women's Equity Resource Center
		Rigoberta Menchu's father fought as a leader against the government which was taking the Indians' land by force.
		Rigoberta Menchu soon fled to Mexico where she dictated her autobiography, which is in the style of Latin American oral history.
		Rigoberta Menchu used her Nobel Peace Prize money to set up a foundation to fight for human rights, and continues to be active globally as a human rights activist.
	www.edc.org /WomensEquity/women/menchu.htm (220 words)

	Rigoberta Menchu Tum
		I, Rigoberta Menchu is a testimonial piece, a format of writing to which I am slowly growing accustomed.
		Menchu condones the gender roles perpetuated by Mayan custom—women must be made aware of reproductive responsibility at ten years of age.
		Perhaps we may argue that Menchu is a feminist because she breaks from this role (but yet still praises it) by not marrying in her youth, by branching out to aid other villages, by exiling herself, by orating her cultural biography.
	blogalice.com /node/76/print (1077 words)

	Rigoberta Menchu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This incident came two days after Rigoberta Menchu Tum, founder and President of the FRMT, was followed by an individual in a white pick-up truck as she drove to the FRMT's offices.
		Rigoberta Menchu Tum was followed until she arrived at the FRMT offices.
		Recently, Rigoberta Menchu Tum has been a prominent member of the recently formed Frente Civico por la Democracia, Civic Front for Democracy, a coalition of organizations and political parties established in the wake of recent political violence to ensure that the general elections scheduled for November 2003 are transparent and free.
	www.rtfcam.org /take_action/Menchu.htm (825 words)

	Rigoberta Menchu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Menchu’s book pretends to be the tale of how her Mayan family attempted to protect their land from the predations of greedy white capitalists and alien interlopers.
		For example, the dramatic heart of her story comes when Menchu’s brother is tortured and burned in a town square by the monstrous military.
		Their enthusiastic acceptance of Menchu’s phony story may have encouraged the guerrillas to continue their unwelcome bloodletting for another decade after their failure was assured.
	www.weirdrepublic.com /episode11.htm (460 words)

	AllRefer.com - Rigoberta MenchU (Social Reformers) - Encyclopedia
		Rigoberta MenchU[rE´´gOber´tA menchOO´] Pronunciation Key, 1959–;, Guatemalan social reformer.
		Protesters against human-rights abuses, her father, mother, and younger brother were killed by Guatamalan soldiers, and in 1981 MenchU fled the country and settled in Mexico.
		In 1998 her autobiographical I, Rigoberta MenchU (1983) was attacked as partly fabricated, provoking international controversy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Menchu-R.html (229 words)

	Rigoberta Menchú - Great Men and Women of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Rigoberta Menchu was born into poverty in a small Guatemalan village, she worked with her parents, tending corn and beans on their small plot.
		Rigoberta's father, Vicente, was one of the first in their region to seek justice and a better life for the indian people.
		In 1983 her testimonial book, I, Rigoberta Menchú, An Indian Woman in Guatemala, was published, followed by various of her texts and poems.
	homepage.oanet.com /jaywhy/rigoberta.htm (226 words)

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