In January 2005, exhumations began in the La Hoyada sector, the training grounds of the "Los Cabitos" Barracks. As a result, 15 complete bodies were found along with remains of …
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2 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
The bodies were not difficult to locate, as they lay just below the surface. But the peasants of the southern Peruvian community of Putis had to persevere for 24 years …
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Caretas article on discovery of corpses in Moyuna
On April 21, 1994, the weekly Caretas published an article describing the discovery of the body of a young woman and five unrecognizable bodies in Moyuna. Journalists Cecilia Valenzuela, Oscar Medrano of Caretas, along with Gilberto Hume and Josefina Townsend of CNN and Channel 9, were in the area of …
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12 additional corpses found in the Huallaga River
Another 12 corpses reappeared floating in the Huallaga River. The official version was that it was a settling of scores between drug traffickers and Shining Path members, but again, there were voices that blamed the forces controlling drug trafficking and subversion as the perpetrators of the deaths. The truth and …
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30 dead bodies found in the Huallaga river
Thirty bodies of presumed DEA informants were found floating in the waters of the Huallaga River, although others said they were of peasants presumed to be Shining Path or drug traffickers. The official version was that it was a settling of scores between drug traffickers and Shining Path members, but …
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1990
Bodies of the seven peasants murdered on November 29, 1990
1984
Bodies from the Ñeque mass grave, Huamanga
1984
Exhumation of mass graves found in the locality of Ñeque in Huamanga
1984
Transfer of bodies found in the Pucayacu mass graves
1983