... the upper 20% of the people is still practiced, however, without people like Rigoberta Menchu it is difficult to say that that world would ever have been made aware of these atrocities. In her autobiography, I, Rigoberta Menchu, she recaps the horrors that her family and the other indigenous peoples around her ... of this, Guatemalan Indians chose to rise up against the military and go to war against them in the late 1970s and 80s. Rigoberta Menchu's autobiography illustrates the reasons behind these uprising and the horrific ways in which her people were tortured and killed for years. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate