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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 02:59 PM Sep 2014

Peru: massacre victims exhumed in Ayacucho

Peru: massacre victims exhumed in Ayacucho
Submitted by WW4 Report on Fri, 09/26/2014 - 00:22

Investigators from the Fiscalía, Peru's public prosecutor, exhumed 21 bodies from four mass graves in a remote area of Ayacucho region, the office announced Sept. 15. The find was made at the hamlet of Belen Chapi, in the Paccha area of Chungui district, in a zone of high jungle known as the Oreja de Perro which had been a stronghold of the Shining Path rebels in the 1980s. The bodies are believed to be those a group of peasants summarily executed by security forces on suspicion of being guerilla collaborators on July 14, 1984—although the remains of none more said to have been killed that day remain missing. Authorities will now begin the work of identifying the remains, as well as naming the members of the army and National Police who were responsible for the massacre.

Investigators were led to the spot by Dolores Guzmán, the sole survivor of the massacre. She said she was spared because one of her cousins was a police guide. The day after the killings, she was marched out of the police-occupied hamlet and released. The cost of keeping her life was to prepare a last meal for the condemned. She cooked sweetened pumpkin and personally fed each detainee because their hands were bound behind them. No one begged for mercy, Guzmán told a reporter from the Associated Press. But the silence broke when the killing began, she said. "The children cried the loudest." (AP, Sept. 18; EFE Sept. 15)

http://ww4report.com/node/13569

(Short article, no more at link.)

This massacre was brought to the world courtesy of Peruvian President, Fernando Belaúnde Terry.

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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
3. I keep track of all the sources I've run across, return to them regularly to check them for new ones
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 10:53 PM
Sep 2014

It's so hard to get real news about the Americas that hasn't been wildly framed by official US sources I try hard to save the links to every source I've found when I can manage it.

I need to find sources outside ordinary US media, although some domestic sources do retain enough elements of truth it's possible to see some of the story, even if it's between the lines!

I'll bet you've noticed how US sources, and wire sources like Reuters and AP almost ALWAYS use any story about a leftist led country to work in material attacking the President, relentlessly, to the point it sounds as if they simply copy and past the propaganda part in every time.

An example could be a story which might say that some progressive step forward was made in one of the countries but the opposition says it sucks, and the President should be shot in the streets as soon as possible, that even the poor can't stand him/her, and why doesn't he/she drop dead!

So they use the "news" event as the opening in order to spew the completely negative crappola regarding the leftist leaders.

It gets amusing once you've seen it long enough. You really know to look for it.

I feel a need to find more honorable, trustworthy information if I possibly can. I'm not close to giving up! I need to find out for myself, making up for lost time, lost to my own ignorance from the days I trusted our home-grown "news" sources, and I feel I should make that info. available to anyone who wants to read it.

You are truly very kind, jwirr. So glad we're all watching Latin America events together.

So much happening there happens because of US pressure of one kind or another, and US covert machinations we never know about until after it has been declassified and released to authors, etc. through the Freedom of Information Act, years and years later.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
4. In other words you work hard at this. My interest was first peaked by reading Naomi Klien's book.
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 10:10 AM
Sep 2014

Now I follow what you are writing as the follow up that I can believe. Thank God there are a few links to media that are still telling the truth. And thank you for taking the time to find them.

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