Did they all die?

This book was supposed to appear toward the end of last year, approximately, but due to causes and contingencies not always of fate's making, but rather various impediments both major and minor, such intentions were thwarted. However, now you have it in your hands (I hope not as a survivor of a remote and forgotten age) attempting to open up the images and memories of the past, the blocked versions of the present—in short, to make available to everyone the truth about the genocide that occurred on June 19, 1986, in Lima's prisons. The book has an aspiration and pursues a single objective. Its aspiration: that the "memory of the people" continue burning and singing "among birds and trees" despite such a barbaric and cruel genocide, and that its light spread and find its way into every corner of our history, even reaching—not only from mouth to mouth, but from stone to stone, from branch to branch—the footsteps of our children, so that we may know, with absolute clarity, who were the actors behind this unjustifiable operation, which to this day—and forever—will continue to produce wounds. (Excerpt from the preface.)