Reference :
V-P-PE-E-00892
Date :
10/2014
Caption :
Near Huancasancos. Libia, who lost her husband 30 years ago, tends to her fields.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
Lybia, 63 years old, raised her five children as a single mother after her husband was killed 30 years ago. She had no money to support her children afterwards. So they went to Lima to stay with relatives, living separately, studying and trying to find a better life. Libia supported them all until they were a bit older and she was able to return home and work on her family’s farm, in which she still rises at dawn to tend even though she is into her sixties.
On October 27 2014, after almost 30 years of waiting, the families of 80 people unaccounted for between 1983 and1984 came from different regions of the country, to retrieve the remains of their loved ones at the Legal Medicine Institute of Ayacucho. The victims who were from various communities of Ayacucho such as Chungui, Huancasancos, Huanta, Vilcashuamán, Tambo, Canayre, and Huamanga were exhumed and identified during 2014. Many government and nongovernmental organisations contributed to the event such as the International Committee of the Red Cross who provided transportation of families and coffins to the communities from Ayacucho, as well as the Peruvian Red Cross who provided shelter for many families who came to recover their loved ones from far away communities. Between 13,000 and 16,000 people disappeared during the armed violence that took place in Peru between years 1980 and 2000. Many families are still left without any knowledge of the fate of their relatives, they cannot give them a decent burial, solve official issues of widowhood or orphan hood, to receive economical, psychological or psychosocial support and obtain reparation.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
5616x3744
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
