In 1992, Rigoberta Menchú, a 33 year old Maya Quiché Indian, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of Guatemala’s Indian peoples. A spotlight on human rights abuses directed at American Indians in Guatemala. During the years of Guatemala’s thirty-six year long internal conflict in the 1970s and 80s, the longest in Latin America, the military turned on the Indians, accusing them of anti-government leftist leanings. A truth commission set up after the war ended said that more than 200,000 civilians were killed during the conflict and some 400 Mayan villages were razed. 38,000 people were taken by military death squads and never seen again. Thousands of children were orphaned, and one million people uprooted to become refugees. womeninworldhistory/contemporary-08.html
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