Mass Graves Are an Open Wound in Peru
The discovery of mass graves in Andean zones and in the jungle over the past eight months — containing the skeletal remains of victims of the war that ravaged Peru — has become an open wound in the country, according to human rights organizations. The most recent findings occurred in January in the southern Andean region of the country and in September of the previous year in the Amazon region, where bodies bearing signs of torture and extrajudicial executions were found. Published on March 15, 2001.