Massacre in Lima and Callao prisons

There was a massacre of prisoners in the jails of Lima and Callao, where hundreds of human beings died. The bishops of Peru pronounced themselves against violence 'wherever it came from'. They pointed out that they could not accept the method of terror as a means to achieve change, but neither could they accept that the way to make those who have embarked on this erroneous path change is to respond to them with the same means. They demanded that the announced investigation be carried out with complete objectivity. Many sectors of the Church and lay movements issued statements condemning the massacre.