Peru’s Largest Mass Grave With 100 Bodies Of Children Found
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 5:02 pm Under World News
PUTIS, Peru, A team of forensic anthropologists working in this Andean ghost town uncovered the remains of children shot and buried in a mass grave of victims of Peru’s 1980-2000 internal war.
More than 100 bodies are feared buried at this remote hamlet in Ayacucho province, the largest known grave of its type in Peru, according to government prosecutors.
The grave is located in Putis, a hamlet 3,500 meters (11,500 feet) above sea level and some 650 kilometers (400 miles) south-east of Lima. The site was abandoned soon after 123 people — men, women and children — from area farming communities were slaughtered there on December 13, 1984.
According to Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), army soldiers suspected the farmers supported guerrillas with the Shining Path. Ayacucho is one of Peru’s poorest provinces and the birthplace of the Maoist insurgency.
Peruvians are still coming to terms with the abuses committed during the bitter 1980-2000 war against the Shining Path and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) insurgencies. Nearly 70,000 people were either killed or went missing during that period, according to government figures.
According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission there are more than 4,000 mass graves hidden in different parts of the country.
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