Barrios Altos
On the night of November 3, 1991 ,a “pollada” was taking place on the first floor of the building located at No. 840 Jiron Huanta to raise funds to repair that building. At approximately 23:30 hours, six armed and hooded individuals entered the building .The attackers ordered the meeting attendees to lie on the floor, where they fired indiscriminately for about two minutes, killing 15 of them including an 8 year old child and seriously injuring four others, one of which was permanently paralyzed. It was verified that the attackers were military members and were after a meeting of rebels which actually took place on the second floor of the building while the “pollada” and the attack was carried out on the first floor.
Felipe León León, survivor, was shot seven times and still has a bullet in the body. Suffer from discrimination by their neighbors, they still think he is a terrorist.
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La Cantuta
At dawn on July 18, 1992, members of the Army Intelligence Service, many of which allegedly belonged to the "Colina Group", entered the residence of the Universidad Enrique Guzmán y Valle , Better known as La Cantuta. Once inside, the troops forced the students out of their room and lie face down on the floor. They were looking for Shining Path militants, the terrorist group author of a recent bombing attack in Lima. Nine students and one teacher were separated from the rest. None of them were seen again.
Gisela Ortiz,sister of Enrique Ortiz Perea, one of the missing . The body of his brother was the only one found in the graves of Cieneguilla. She has been the spokesman of the relatives of the missing during the procees against former President Alberto Fujimori.
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Ayahuarcuna Bridge
Huanta, on the way to Ayacucho, the creek and the bridge of lime and stone, there are known by this name prehispanic which means place where they hang the dead. In December 1983, 16 peasants are killed by Shinning Path.
Esperanza Zabaleta Ochatoma, 70. She found her husband among the 16 people killed in the bridge Ayahuarcuna.
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Putis
On December 13, 1984, members of the Peruvian Army base Putis ordered the men of the community of the same name to dig a grave for the construction of a fish farm. When the alleged pool was ready, the troops met the hundreds of people around the pool, including men, women and children, and without further explanation were shot to kill.
Teodosia Condorai Quispe,was one of the survivors of the massacre. Lost 10 members of his family. After the exhumation of the grave, managed to identify 7 of his family. No soldier has been convicted of crimes against the civilian population of Putis.
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Socos
November 13, 1983, a total of thirty-two peasant men and women participating in a family party in the district of Socos, located 18 kilometers from the city of Ayacucho, were arbitrarily executed by eleven members of the former Civil Guard.
Ángel Quispe, 34 years old lost his parents and brothers in the massacre, all his immediate family disappeared. He remained by himself at eight years old.
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Uchuraccay
January 26, 1983. The journalists Eduardo de la Piniella, Pedro Sanchez, Felix Gavilan, Willy Retto, Jorge Luis Mendivil, Jorge Sedano, Amador Garcia, Octavio Infante and Juan Argumedo, the guide, left to Uchuraccay to investigate the deaths of seven suspected Shining Path members in hands of the villagers there. Hours later, mistaken for terrorists, the local farmers brutally murdered the journelists with sticks and stones. They had been alerted and instigated by a Marine patrol to murder anyone suspected of subversive.
Alicia RettoWilly Retto daughter. She never met him, his mother was pregnant 6 months when the massacre happened. He died on January 26, she was born on 28 April. She is 28 years old and also a journalist.
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