Word: stollings
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Both Middlebury College Professor David Stoll and The New York Times have recently questioned the accuracy of Menchu's account...
...book, Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans, Stoll questions Menchu's account of her education and the deaths of her family...
...York Times article on Stoll's assertions reported that one brother who dies of starvation in I, Rigoberta Menchu never existed. The article says that Menchu, who claimed to have been uneducated, actually studied for several years in a Catholic school...
After examining Guatemalan archival material and conducting interviews with survivors of the events, Stoll concluded many of the claims Menchu makes in the book were either distorted or completely fabricated...
Horowitz cites Stoll's book, which concludes that the killings were in response to a previous attack by Marxist guerillas with which Menchu's family members worked...