Youth Views on the Internal Armed Conflict
In Ayacucho, a city of about 150,000 inhabitants that lived through the harsh blows of violence during the 20 years of internal armed conflict, a large part of the population had never heard of the Asociación Nacional de Familiares de desaparecidos y secuestrados del Perú, ANFASEP, the first victims' organization to begin organizing in Ayacucho, nor of Señora Angélica Mendoza, its founder, who together with other women began the long search for their relatives — sons, daughters, fathers — taken from their homes and then disappeared by military or police forces.