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Contacting Shining Path - part 3
Contacting Shining Path - part 2
Contacting Shining Path - part 1
1995
A boy from the religious mission located in Puerto Ocopa, Satipo, displays a large scar made by a terrorist commander
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Murder of Quenteroni natives
Between June and July 1994, the Shining Path PCP killed around seventy natives of the Quenteroni community. The victims were people the subversives considered useless for work or for the war, including children, the sick and the elderly. This act of extreme violence occurred in the context of the war …
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Attack on settlers' camps in Satipo with mutilation of children
A column of approximately 200 Shining Path elements attacked eight colonist camps in the province of Satipo. They killed more than 55 people, including natives and settlers, and cut off the ears of 14 children. This massive attack exemplifies the brutality of the Shining Path against civilian populations, including the …
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Forced recruitment of 24 students in Satipo
Shining Path forcibly recruited 24 students between 10 and 12 years of age. The children were subjected to strict rules: they could only eat when ordered to do so by the Shining Path members, otherwise they were killed for breaking the rules. Methods of execution included tying hands, hanging and …
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Pozo Rico Massacre
On March 19, 1992, about thirty villagers fleeing from the Alto Cuchara hamlet because of the bombings encountered a military patrol near Pozo Rico. The military separated the women and children and executed them with gunfire, first the men, then the women and finally the children. After a month, Benito …
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Parent's murder witnessed by 3-year-old child
Wilmer, a 3-year-old boy, witnessed the murder of his parents by the Shining Path. They threw a machete at his mother's belly and there was a lot of blood, and they put a bullet in his father's head. The boy wanted them to get up but they wouldn't talk to …
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Attack on Sonomoro with burning of young girl
Shining Path attacked Sonomoro in the afternoon. A female terrorist captured a family and doused them with gasoline, then set fire to the car and people. Esmeralda Carhuamaca Romero, 10 years old, ran out with fire on her back and managed to put it out by throwing herself on the …
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Mutilation of peasants' hands in Iguaín
One month before the 1990 general elections, the Shining Path barbarically attacked the district of Iguaín. The subversives mutilated the hands of peasants, among them children, with the intention of causing terror in the population so that they would not go to vote. At the hacienda, an armed group dressed …
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Separation of children from their families in camps
In the Shining Path camps, when people arrived from different sides, they would form and separate them into groups of 10. At the age of 11 or 12, the children were separated from their parents and from the 'masses' to join the future combat group. A 14-year-old girl recounts: 'When …
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Massacre in a community and forced recruitment of children by Sendero
At approximately 4:00 a.m., Shining Path terrorists had almost finished killing all the inhabitants of one community, including small children and infants. The terrorists commented: 'only the intelligent ones will be left here, and those who are not, will die'. They proceeded to interrogate the surviving children about their knowledge. …
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Forced recruitment of 10 year old child by MRTA
A boy of about 10 years old was kidnapped by the MRTA. There were minors even younger than him. The subversives said that it is better to be a minor than an adult. That day they had taken 4, 5 or 6 children. They used them for spying. They trained …
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Murder of Ashaninkas who tried to escape
When approximately 10 Ashaninka tried to escape from Shining Path captivity, the subversives began to kill all the Ashaninka in the group. They took them under false pretenses, telling them they would live alone and happy, but they killed them with axes, machetes and knives. The children also had their …
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Military training for children as young as 7 years old
In Shining Path camps, children studied and worked from the age of 7, picking rice and working according to their ability. From the age of 12 they took up arms. They studied pure Shining Path politics with a teacher every day. They were taught to make weapons out of sticks …
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Child punished for eating bananas at hiking camp
In a Shining Path camp, a watchman punished the young son of one of the declarants with chicote (pieces of thick vines) because, due to his hunger, he had eaten 5 bananas without asking permission. The punishment was applied in front of everyone as a lesson for the rest. This …
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Murder of 9 children during captivity
A mother says that the Shining Path killed her 9 children during captivity. The children got sick because they did not eat well, everything was measured and in small portions, without salt or oil, only nettle and other herbs. When the hikers ordered a 'retreat', the children who could not …
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Intensified recruitment of youths and children by PCP-SL in Satipo
During 1989, the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) significantly intensified the recruitment of youth and children in the province of Satipo. This recruitment campaign was carried out both in the cities and in rural areas near the highway. Forced recruitment was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to …
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Recruitment and training of 13-year-old boy in Ashaninka community
A 13-year-old boy recounts his recruitment by the Shining Path in the Ashaninka community. He says 'when I was little I didn't know what life was like, I practically opened my eyes to it, I thought it was the truth'. From 5 to 10 years old, they were pioneers and …
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Forced recruitment and murder of child in Puerto Nuevo Ashaninka
Shining Path forcibly recruited a 13-year-old boy in the Puerto Nuevo Ashaninka Native Community. The boy tells how the subversives hanged and filleted with knives children who did not obey their mothers, cutting them to the heart to kill them and then bury them. This testimony shows the brutality of …
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Massacre in Rumi-Rumi perpetrated by the Shining Path
The Shining Path perpetrated a massacre in the public square of the Rumi-Rumi hamlet. Twenty-four peasants were killed, among them 14 adults and 10 children, gunned down for the crime of having organized civil defense patrols. Most of the victims were authorities and young people from the village. As a …
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Use of child bomber killed in attack
A minor of approximately 14 years of age got out of a car carrying a powerful explosive to detonate it at the residence of the Investigative Police. The device exploded surprisingly one meter away from the police premises. The package contained eight sticks of dynamite that had been ignited seconds …
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Killing of children and sick people during trekking retreats
During Shining Path retreats into the bush, they forced the captive population to move to different bases. After three days of walking, the hikers began to kill children and old people who could not continue, saying 'he who can, will arrive; and he who cannot, will stay where he is'. …
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Murder of villagers in Yanasraccay
The Shining Path murdered villagers in Yanasraccay, including parents. The subversives justified the murder of children by arguing that when they grew up and realized what had happened, they could take revenge or seek justice. For this reason, they decided not to leave the children alive. This testimony reveals the …
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Slaughter of villagers in Chaupihuasi
The Shining Path perpetrated a massacre of almost all the inhabitants of the village of Chaupihuasi. Peasants were killed without distinction of age, including 14 adult peasants, 10 children and older pupils of 7 and 8 years old who died together with their teacher at the school. Only very young …
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Killing of children who resisted conscription
The Shining Path gathered children to take them to the bush at the point of beatings. When some of the children resisted, the terrorists grabbed one of them, beat him even more, and forced the other children to grab him tightly. In the presence of everyone, they cut off his …
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8-year-old girl witnesses massacre, cares for dying mother
An 8-year-old girl witnessed her parents and older siblings being beaten by the Shining Path. The children began to scream but out of fear they had to stay quiet. Many urinated and relieved themselves on their clothes. Despite the girl's pleas for mercy and compassion, they killed her mother and …
Documents 14
Twenty-Five Stories Not to Forget
This collection of testimonies gathered and selected by the author during his time in Ayacucho between 1987 and 1991, in the midst of the internal armed conflict, constitutes a valuable …
Terrorists in the VRAE Bury Children in Mass Graves
"From a very young age they took me to the jungle. They forced me to have children. They (the ringleaders) said: You are single, you join (the terrorist column) to …
Remains of Another 20 Victims Exhumed in Chungui
The remains of 20 more people — including 10 children — killed at the Chungui base between 1983 and 1989 were exhumed by forensic experts from the specialized forensic team …
Children Used as Soldiers in Peru
Report submitted to the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) at its 138th session by the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos. It addresses the use of children and adolescents in …
THE SAD STORY OF A SHINING PATH CHILD
Alcides V.C. (age 8) is one of two children who on January 26 were freed from the clutches of Sendero Luminoso in the Valle de los Ríos Apurímac y Ene …
The Children of Ayacucho. An Anthropology of Adoption and Family Building in Peru
This valuable ethnographic study analyzes those informal arrangements by which Andean children are sent by their parents to live in new households. At first glance, the "circulation" of children may …
The Government Condemned Shining Path's Recruitment of Children
The head of the Peruvian Council of Ministers, Yehude Simon, condemned today the recruitment of children by Sendero Luminoso, after a television channel broadcast footage on Sunday showing minors in …
Human Rights Groups Condemn the Use of Children by Shining Path in Peru
Human rights groups condemned on Saturday the use of minors by the armed group Sendero Luminoso in its terrorist activities, as occurred the previous Sunday in its most recent attack, …
Communiqué: Ombudsman's Office Strongly Condemns Recruitment of Minors for Terrorist Activities
The Defensoría del Pueblo issued a communiqué today in which it EXPRESSES, before public opinion, its most profound REJECTION of the use of minors in terrorist activities, as was observed …
Violence against girls and boys
Why publish the CVR report on the impact of 20 years of political violence on children in Peru? The answer is simple: no one can doubt that it was precisely …
Incense and Broom
The mission of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary in Huancapi began during the harshest years of terrorism in our Peru. As is well known, its cradle was the university …
Between Play and War. Psychological and Sociocultural Resources of Asháninka Children in the Face of Political Violence
This text is situated within the singularly dramatic framework of political violence, which having erupted in the 1980s extended into the early 1990s. Specifically, it grows from the work experience …
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 …
The Children of the War
The book brings together the various papers presented at the seminar "Violence, Family and Child," organized in the city of Ayacucho by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad …