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The Past is Present Memories of Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict
Jonathan Moller

The Past is Present Memories of Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict

These images are taken from a larger series, an 8 year project that I did in Peru - https://www.jonathanmoller.org/peru-the-past-is-present-2008-2016/. The book came out in 2017 - https://www.jonathanmoller.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Peru-ThePastIsPresent-info-EnglishSpanish.pdf

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Created
May 19, 2020
Updated
Feb 08, 2022
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#Peru #Indigenous People #Civil War #Violence #South America

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On the side of the Pan-American Highway, Otilia León Velásquez, the sister of Gilmar Ramiro León, looks at the crosses that mark the spot where, in 2011, the remains of Gilmar and the other eight men were found and exhumed in 2011. Huanca Corral, Santa, 2013
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Reynalda Andagua Gonzales talks about her son, Martín Roca Casas, who disappeared in 1993. Javier Roca, Martín’s father, appears in the mirror next to an altar dedicated to the memory of his son. “He was kidnapped, tortured, murdered and incinerated during the government of Alberto Fujimori”. Lima, 2009
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Manchay, Lima, Peru, 2013
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Lima, Peru, 2013
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Villacuri, Ica, Peru, 2014
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Accomarca, Ayacucho, Peru, 2014
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Upiray, Ayacucho, Peru, 2014
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Since the middle of the 1980s Saturna Chocce Valencia has lived and worked on this farm. Saturna is one of only two survivors of the Putka massacre, where forty men, women and children were killed by ronderos, members of a Self-Defense Committee who were supported by the military. Huanta, Ayacucho Region, 2009
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Benita Pariona de Arango (on the left) in her house with her daughter and some of their neighbors. In 1984 soldiers killed Benita’s husband, Filemón Arango Soca. Seven years later the Shining Path killed her oldest son. Another of her sons, along with twenty others, was killed by the police. Ñuñunhuaycco, Ayacucho Region, 2014
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Alejandro Castillo and his wife, Rosa Chávez de Castillo, parents of Denis Atilio Castillo Chávez. Denis was one of the nine people detained and killed on May 2, 1992 by the Grupo Colina. Santa, Ancash Region, 2013
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