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After 37 years, dozens of victims of the worst massacre in Peru's conflict with radical left-wing guerrillas will finally be laid to rest in their Andean village following a years-long identification…

After 37 years, dozens of victims of the worst massacre in Perus conflict with radical left-wing guerrillas will finally be laid to rest in their Andean village following a years-long identification process. A funeral ceremony will take place Friday in the tiny isolated village of Accomarca where i ..

Accomarca, Peru, May 19 (EFE).- This community in the Andean region of Ayacucho made a start Thursday on healing the wounds from the slaughter of 69 residents in 1985 by Peruvian army troops who falsely accused the villagers of supporting Shining Path guerrillas. After a wait of 37 years, Accomarca this week received the remains …

The bodies were exhumed from a mass grave to be identified using DNA tests.

Looking backward

Peruvian writer criticises incumbent’s ‘clowning around’ but says he is still preferable to former president

Sister María Agustina Rivas Lopez (1920-1990), who was executed by members of the Maoist Shining Path organization, was beatified on May 7.

Sister Lopezs murder highlighted the senselessness of violence, crime, injustice

Good Shepherd Sr. María Agustina Rivas Lopez, who was murdered by terrorists during Peru's political violence, was beatified May 7 ...

Sister María Agustina Rivas Lopez, who was murdered by terrorists during Perus political violence, was beatified May 7 during a liturgy in the same plaza where she was shot to death in 1990.