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Peasant woman demands answers about a relative's disappearance
A peasant woman demands answers about the disappearance of a family member on May 2, 1984. In a dramatic struggle to learn the fate of their missing relatives and denounce those responsible for their disappearances, wives, mothers, and sisters of victims of the violence made pilgrimages to military barracks, state institutions, and media outlets. In the face of the ineffectiveness of their individual efforts, on September 2, 1983, a group of women from Ayacucho founded the Asociación Nacional de Familiares de Secuestrados, Detenidos y Desparecidos del Perú (ANFASEP). By year's end, the association had reported 600 cases.