Solidarity Campaign with the Displaced Brothers and Sisters Who Are Victims of Violence

This work discusses the relationship between the Catholic Christian message and the situation of peasant families who were forced to leave their place of origin due to the political violence that was ravaging interior regions of the country such as Ayacucho in particular. Sendero Luminoso, joined by other terrorist groups such as the MRTA, subjected peasant populations to their program of terror. They mercilessly murdered authorities, police officers, leaders and ordinary residents and peasants. They forced the population to supply them with food and forcibly recruited children and adolescents, instilling terror in the population. The theater of terrorist action expanded to more than a third of the country, directly affecting much of the sierra and the high jungle (where it becomes entangled with the drug trafficking program). Displaced families settled in the marginal areas of the country's cities, above all in Lima. They thus shared the hardships of the other residents of human settlements: lack of basic services, unemployment, etc. For these families, the problem of employment proved to be one of the most serious. For adults it meant changing their activity, since their main occupation had been agriculture.