Book reveals details of massacre of journalists in Peru
Book reveals details of massacre of journalists in Peru
Published January 19, 2015/
EFE
By David Blanco Bonilla
More than three decades after eight journalists and their guide were killed in the southern region of Ayacucho, details of the event that marked the history of the Peruvian press are coming to light in a book due out this week.
"Uchuraccay, el pueblo donde morian los que llegaban a pie," (Uchuraccay, the town where those who arrived on foot died) is the result of 2 1/2 years of work by reporters Victor and Jaime Tipe Sanchez.
Journalists Eduardo de la Piniella, Jorge Sedano, Amador Garcia, Luis Mendivil, Felix Gavilano, Pedro Sanchez, Octavio Infante and Willy Retto and their guide, Juan Argumedo, were slain on Jan. 16, 1983 in Uchuraccay, which sits at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters (13,125 feet) above sea level.
The men were on their way to report on recent military operations against Shining Path guerrillas that had resulted in deaths in the area.
Responding to a public uproar, the 1980-1985 administration of President Fernando Belaunde Terry created an investigative commission led by writer Mario Vargas Llosa, whose final report concluded that the peasants in Uchuraccay were solely responsible for the reporters' deaths.
The victims' families, however, have always rejected the panel's conclusion, insisting that military "infiltrators" promoted the lynching.
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