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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for
1992 to Rigoberta Menchú from Guatemala, in recognition of her work for social
justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of
indigenous peoples.
Like many other countries in South and Central America, Guatemala has
experienced great tension between the descendants of European immigrants and the
native Indian population. In the 1970s and 1980s, that tension came to a head in
the large-scale repression of Indian peoples. Menchu has come to play an
increasingly prominent part as an advocate of native rights.
Rigoberta Menchú grew up in poverty, in a family which has undergone the most
brutal suppression and persecution. In her social and political work, she has
always borne in mind that the long-term objective of the struggle is peace.
Today, Rigoberta Menchú stands out as a vivid symbol of peace and
reconciliation across ethnic, cultural and social dividing lines, in her own
country, on the American continent, and in the world.
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Norveški Komitet za dodelu Nobelove nagrade za mir zaključio je, da
Nobelovu nagradu za 1992. godinu dodeli Rigoberti Menčú iz Guatemale za njen
rad i socijalnu pravednost i etničko-kulturno pomirenje na bazi međusobnog
respekta za domorodačke narode. Kao i u mnogim drugim zemljama u južnoj i
srednjoj Americi, i u Guatemali vladaju velike napetosti između potomaka
evropskih doseljenika i indijanskih prastanovnika. U toku 70-tih i 80-tih godina
ove napetosti dovele su do masovnih napada i akcija protiv indijanskog stanovništva.
Menčú je spremno preuzela sve zahtevniju ulogu advokata domorodaca. Rigoberta
Menčú
odrasla je u siromaštvu, u porodici koja je kao i mnoge druge morala iskusiti
najbrutalnije načine tlačenja.
U toku svog socijalnog i političkog rada ona je uvek pazila na to da je
dugoročni cilj svađa i nasilja u svakom slučaju samo mir.
Rigoberta Menčú danas predstavlja jak simbol za mir i pomirenje i izvan etničkih,
kulturnih i socijalnih granica kako u svojoj zemlji, tako i na
američkom kontinentu i širom sveta. |
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