Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said he doubts this, however, since an independent truth commission has just released a report showing that the majority of deaths were Mayan, and that these offenses were usually perpetrated by the Guatemalan army...
After examining Guatemalan archival material and conducting interviews with survivors of the events, Stoll concluded many of the claims Menchu makes in the book were either distorted or completely fabricated...
Menchu, a Quiche Mayan, won the Nobel peace Prize in 1992 after this auto-biographical work was published, which details the terrors perpetrated against her family during the Guatemalan insurrection. But since the prize was awarded, the book's authorship and the truth of its accounts have been called into question...
...adapted from an article written by CPSC member David Horowitz, takes issue with Menchu's account of the death of family members at the hands of Guatemalan government troops...
...said he doubts this, however, since an independent truth commission has just released a report showing that the majority of deaths were Mayan, and that these offenses were usually perpetrated by the Guatemalan army...