Massive torture in Guatemala

Massive torture in Guatemala

Introduction

Rigoberta Menchu Tum is the native of the Latin American country Guatemala. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1992 for promoting indigenous rights in the country and Prince of Asturias in 1998. She is an activist and fights for the rights of women and peasants in Guatemala. She joined organizations like the Committee for Peasant and the 31st of January Popular Front for these purposes (Gossen p.64). He made vigorous efforts in creating United Representation of the Guatemalan Opposition. She received the Nobel Prize for her efforts. Her focus and efforts worked for indigenous people in Guatemala. She struggled against military oppression in Guatemala.

She wrote her autobiography and published in English in 1983. It was a successful autobiography, and it garbs attentions of human rights activists and other NGOs. She made efforts for the rights of indigenous people of Guatemala. In her autobiography, she told her story of early life as an underprivileged peasant's daughter.

Torture Scene in the Book and Its Significance

The story is about the struggle of indigenous people against the Guatemalan Government. She fights for the right of Mayan indigenous people. Menchu tells that she was unable to take formal education, but she put efforts to teach herself. She worked as a maid in a convent school at that time. She decided to learn Spanish, at the age of seventeen. Spanish language helps her to fight against the Guatemalan Military in 1980. She describes that the conflict of Guatemala army against revolutionary group remain from 1960 to 1996. These conflicts took lives of 200,000 people. The indigenous people of Mayan targeted in the year 1978 to 1983.

Her brother Petrocinio buried alive in public by the Guatemalan army and authorities forced her family member to watch this whole scene while they performing their act of burning. This was a cruel and brutal torture scene that Menchu narrated. Not only that the Wealthy European government killed her father and mother because, her father was against the interest of them. She wrote that Guatemalan army attack Mayan Villagers rigorously. The narration of these violent activities in the book gained popularity and attracted a wide audience. She told that their lives were miserable, and it was not easy to survive in the hostile environment. They treat people like animal. It was difficult to believe that these problems will ever change. The Guatemalan army does not let animal go they killed animals too.

She said that her mother was kidnapped, and she was raped by a high ranking army officer. She said that she knew how step by step her mother was raped and tortured. Her mother never laid them to stay back she always wanted to fight for the enemies, for that she supported her husband and children. Her father keeps fighting for the indigenous people and died for them. Her father was respectful member of Peasant Union Committee. He was assassinated by the authorities his intact skin ...