Reference :
V-P-PE-E-00909
Date :
10/2014
Caption :
Huancasancos. One of the twins blows smoke into his father's cranium as a sign of respect for a last smoke during a family vigil in the house in which his father Felix was murdered, along with their mother Olga.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
Edma, 49, and Nilton, 46, lost both their parents during the conflict. They were forced into raising their brothers and sisters. When their father, who was a judge, was killed, they were smuggled outside of Huancasancos in fruit baskets during the violence by their parents, for fear that they might be killed. After receiving word of their father’s death, they came back to be with the family. Six months later, they found themselves orphaned after their mother was executed. The children all suffer from the emotional scars of losing their parents as well as struggling economically. They also must face the perpetrators of their parents crime on a regular basis as they live within their own community.
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.
ICRC website, article of the 19 July 2015:
“Treinta años después de la violencia armada 1980-2000 en Perú, los familiares de los desaparecidos buscan aún los cuerpos y el cierre de este ciclo.
Artículo publicado originalmente por Al Jazeera.
Ayacucho, Perú – Paralizadas por más de una década debido al conflicto de Sendero Luminoso y las fuerzas armadas durante las décadas de 80 y 90, las comunidades peruanas encontraron un lento camino hacia la recuperación con pocas respuestas acerca de la suerte de sus queridos familiares.
Hasta ahora solo se han identificado los restos de 1.300 víctimas y entregado éstos a sus familiares, de un total de aproximadamente 16.000 personas en todo el país.
A fines de octubre 2014 se realizó una ceremonia en Los Andes. Los miembros de las familias de desaparecidos acudieron desde varias provincias de los alrededores de Ayacucho, algunos viajaron 24 horas en minivan e incluso en mula, para recoger los restos de sus seres queridos.
Ochenta y cinco ataúdes blancos alineados en el patio del Instituto de Medicina Legal de Ayacucho fueron entregados a sus familiares. Los miembros de las familias y los voluntarios trasladaron luego los ataúdes por la plaza principal de Ayacucho y los llevaron de vuelta hacia sus casas para darles una digna sepultura.
Después de más de treinta años luego del conflicto, el país aún necesita un sistema adecuado que pueda contribuir con la recuperación de los desaparecidos.
El Ministerio de Justicia del Perú ha estado trabajando en un proyecto de ley desde el año 2014 que, si se implementara, ayudaría a aliviar el sufrimiento de miles de familias con un nuevo enfoque en la investigación forense y la exhumación de víctimas, brindando apoyo psicosocial a los familiares de las víctimas y dando apoyo material y logístico durante la restitución de restos. »
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digital
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5616x3744
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landscape
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