"Guatemala, country of Central America. The dominance of an Indian culture within its interior uplands distinguishes Guatemala from its Central American neighbours."
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"Rigoberta Menchú, (born January 9, 1959, Chimel, Guatemala), Guatemalan Indian-rights activist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1992."
Rigoberta Menchú Tum The Nobel Peace Prize 1992
"Prize motivation: "for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples."
"At the height of the Guatemalan civil war (1960–1996) that pitted leftist guerilla organizations against a succession of military regimes, José Efraín Ríos Montt (b. 1926– ) was proclaimed president following the March 1982 uprising against President Fernando Romeo Lucas García (1978–1982); nearly 17 months later his regime, characterized by widespread human rights violations, was itself overthrown in a coup."
"In 2001 The Asociación para la Justicia y Reconciliación, a Guatemalan organization set up to investigate abuses committed in the Guatemalan civil war, charged that Ríos Montt had promoted what amounted to a genocidal policy to destroy ethnic Maya communities that were seen by the military as providing a base for the insurgents."
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