Unearthing the War's Worst Massacre
The bodies were not difficult to locate, as they lay just below the surface. But the peasants of the southern Peruvian community of Putis had to persevere for 24 years before they were exhumed. In 1984, 125 men, women, and children were shot by members of the army after digging their own graves. The largest massacre of civilians in Peru's internal war (1980–2000) is only now coming to light thanks to the determination of the victims' families.