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Rigoberto Menchu Or Tum: Human Rights Activist

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Rigoberto Menchu or Tum was a Human Rights Activist. She was born January 15 1959 in Laj Chimel, Guatemala. She is a Guatemalan. She was raised in a poor village called Chimel. Her family were of the Mayan Quiche Tribe, a tribe that has no legal rights or protection. She and her family traveled to the coast to work long hour at large coffee or cotton plantation. Condition was hard back then. If children did not work, they would not eat. Her two brothers died, one from pesticides and the other from malnutrition. When her brothers died they were not allow to bury them. And they were force to leave the plantation without being paid. In 1979 her older brother was killed in front of her very eyes. In 1980 her mother was kidnapped and then was killed
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