Peru families receive 'dirty war' bodies

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Irish Examiner

Peru families receive 'dirty war' bodies
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 06:48 AM

Peruvian farmers came from remote mountains and jungle valleys to receive the exhumed remains of loved ones killed three decades ago during Peru’s dirty war.

Hundreds arrived in the Ayacucho state capital for yesterday’s handover of 80 sets of remains.


Simple white coffins bore the bones of fathers, mothers, wives, children and brothers.


Julio Quispe took delivery of the bones of his wife, Elisa, and their one-year-old child.

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A truth commission found that some 70,000 died in the conflict.



Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/peru-families-receive-dirty-war-bodies-647829.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Peru Dirty War bodies returned to relatives

27 October 2014 Last updated at 20:56 ET
Peru Dirty War bodies returned to relatives



Families of 80 of Peru's Dirty War victims have received their exhumed bodies at a ceremony in the southern city of Ayacucho.

The bodies were exhumed between 2011 and 2013 by forensic teams in the provinces of Ayacucho and Huancavelica.

More than half of them were the victims of Shining Path rebels, while the others were killed by security forces.

A truth commission found that some 70,000 people died in the conflict which lasted from 1980 to 2000.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29797359

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. I once took a bus from Ayacucho to the Peruvian Amazon.

Past burnt out villages and roadside grave sites.

This was way off the beaten path. When little kids saw the white man coming, they would hide behind their fathers.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Horrendous. Unspeakable. As a person of conscience, you would have been so disturbed

as that discovery loomed into view.

Our corporate media has made EVERY effort to make sure the U.S. population doesn't learn about so many Latin American atrocities when they have happened, leaving it up for enterprising, and courageous individuals to try to get declassified, decades later, through the Freedom of Information Act, when they are trying to write books about it, after years of requests denied.

You must have been surprised to learn when you got home that no one around seemed to know anything about these atrocities.

What a shock it has had to be to the citizens of these places as they realize those they would have originally called for help in their moment of greatest desperation were the ones creating the atrocities.

The same governments, before they relinquish power, always have put immunity in place for those who committed the crimes against humanity, making it almost impossible for the oppressed to get public acknowledgment even for the evil war upon the poor, upon the helpless, the unlucky masses without powerful allies.