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Tensions have risen in Guatemala since anti-government activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum won the Nobel peace prize last month, the students said...
...government's big fear is that events may take place fueled by the awarding of the Nobel prize which the government won't be able to hold back," Peralta said...
...NOBEL PRIZE: Strike Against Racism...
...NORWAY'S NOBEL COMMITTEE HAS never been reluctant to use the immense prestige of its Peace Prize to make a political point. Over the years it has found timely reason to honor such powerful figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Willy Brandt, Lech Walesa and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Few of those were more calculatedly controversial than this year's Nobel Peace laureate, Rigoberta Menchu. The award to the 33-year-old Guatemalan Indian-rights activist was announced in the week marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World...
...Nobel Committee considered the possibility that it might seem to be honoring an advocate of guerrilla warfare but rejected the idea. Sejersted said the panel had left "no leaf unturned" in investigating her career. He did not claim that every single action she had ever taken was pacific, but "it is our clear conclusion that her long-term goal is peace...