Escape from Capaya barracks
One witness fled from the Capaya barracks in 1989 and was helped by a peasant who asked him to take his daughter for fear that the soldiers would rape and kill her, as had happened to her cousins.
One witness recounts that when he fled from the Capaya barracks in 1989, he was helped by a peasant in exchange for taking his daughter. The peasant was afraid of the soldiers because they raped and killed women, as had happened to his cousins. This testimony is evidence of the climate of terror that prevailed in the area due to the rapes and murders committed by soldiers against civilian women. The case illustrates how peasant families lived in constant fear for the safety of their daughters and female relatives in the face of the military presence in the barracks.