AP's Michelle Ray Ortiz broke the Rigoberta Menchu story!


"Nobel panel stands by laureate"


Adapted from this original source: The San Antonio EXPRESS - NEWS, Wednesday, December 16, 1998, page 8 A.

"MEXICO CITY -- A report claiming Rigoberta Menchu, the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner fabricated key details in her acclaimed autobiography doesn't discredit her work for Indians, her human rights foundation and the Nobel committee said Tuesday.

"U.S. anthropologist David Stoll asserts that the 1983 book, I, Rigberta Menchu inaccurately says Menchu had no formal education, watched a younger brother starve to death and witnessed th eexecution - by - burning of another brother.

"Details of Stoll's new book, Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans were reported Tuesday by the New York Times.

"Stoll, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, didn't return messages let at his office.

"A Times reporter also conducted interviews in Guatemala that contradicted Menchu's account, the newspaper said.

"Menchu's autobiography cannot be the eyewitness account it purports to be because she repeatedly describes experiences she never had herself, Stoll wrote.

"In September, Menchu refused to address Stoll's criticisms, dismissing them as part of a racist political agenda intended to gain publicity, the newspaper said...."


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