During a massacre in the community of Hierba Buenayoc, female Shining Path terrorists mercilessly butchered babies, arguing that it was difficult to raise them and that they should kill them. An 8-year-old witness witnessed how they picked up the babies like rabbits and butchered them. This act exemplifies the extreme …
An 8-year-old girl witnessed her parents and older siblings being beaten by the Shining Path. The children began to scream but out of fear they had to stay quiet. Many urinated and relieved themselves on their clothes. Despite the girl's pleas for mercy and compassion, they killed her mother and …
The Shining Path gathered children to take them to the bush at the point of beatings. When some of the children resisted, the terrorists grabbed one of them, beat him even more, and forced the other children to grab him tightly. In the presence of everyone, they cut off his …
In May 1980, military forces entered areas under subversive control, prompting the forced relocation of civilians, including children, the elderly, and the sick, to various bases in the mountains. Many, especially children and the sick, died during these movements due to malnutrition and anemia. Those unable to continue were executed …