Peru families receive 'dirty war' bodies
Peru families receive 'dirty war' bodies
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 06:48 AM
Peruvian farmers came from remote mountains and jungle valleys to receive the exhumed remains of loved ones killed three decades ago during Peru’s dirty war.
Hundreds arrived in the Ayacucho state capital for yesterday’s handover of 80 sets of remains.
Simple white coffins bore the bones of fathers, mothers, wives, children and brothers.
Julio Quispe took delivery of the bones of his wife, Elisa, and their one-year-old child.
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A truth commission found that some 70,000 died in the conflict.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/peru-families-receive-dirty-war-bodies-647829.html
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27 October 2014 Last updated at 20:56 ET
Peru Dirty War bodies returned to relatives
Families of 80 of Peru's Dirty War victims have received their exhumed bodies at a ceremony in the southern city of Ayacucho.
The bodies were exhumed between 2011 and 2013 by forensic teams in the provinces of Ayacucho and Huancavelica.
More than half of them were the victims of Shining Path rebels, while the others were killed by security forces.
A truth commission found that some 70,000 people died in the conflict which lasted from 1980 to 2000.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29797359
