1 00:00:02,750 --> 00:00:06,458 Alan Garcia never told us “Forgive me, I made a mistake”. 2 00:00:06,458 --> 00:00:09,292 That what all of us who were affected were waiting for. 3 00:00:09,292 --> 00:00:12,000 In his first time in government Alan Garcia was young 4 00:00:12,583 --> 00:00:18,333 and in his second government he had an interview in the Santa Rosa Hotel, with (ANFASEP´s) President 5 00:00:19,375 --> 00:00:26,667 Angelica (who has now passed on). He rubbed her shoulder and told her 6 00:00:27,208 --> 00:00:30,667 “Mamacita I made a mistake that time because I was young and now, 7 00:00:30,667 --> 00:00:34,000 I am older and more mature, I know how to think 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,417 I know how to think and now I have returned to give you all a good compensation. 9 00:00:39,208 --> 00:00:43,292 This was the conversation he had with the Mother President Angelica Mendoza. 10 00:00:44,708 --> 00:00:50,625 Throughout history tea was primarily prepared for the noble class even in fields of battle. 11 00:00:50,625 --> 00:00:57,500 Later the idea of setting aside arms and differences to leave room for tea emerged. 12 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:02,542 There, we were all equals. 13 00:01:03,417 --> 00:01:07,917 But he never asked for our forgiveness, he called us ‘Terrucas’ 14 00:01:07,917 --> 00:01:11,167 the sons of Terrucas, and families of Terrucas. 15 00:01:11,458 --> 00:01:15,292 I lost a family member in the military battle at the hands of the terrorists. 16 00:01:15,292 --> 00:01:18,000 If I was a Terruca, the terrorists would not have killed my family. 17 00:01:19,375 --> 00:01:26,417 On 2 July 1983 they Mama Angelica’s son out of her house. 18 00:01:26,542 --> 00:01:33,000 That’s when she started to look for him. She knew that they took him to the barracks out here in 19 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 “Los Cabitos”. 20 00:01:35,458 --> 00:01:40,458 She would even bring a lunch and they would take it from her at the barracks. 21 00:01:42,167 --> 00:01:45,625 After one week though they had him disappeared. 22 00:01:46,958 --> 00:01:52,292 In the exhumation it was found that he was tied with cables around his arms, 23 00:01:53,458 --> 00:01:58,208 neck, and groin. 24 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,292 In these exhumations there are also young people and pregnant women 25 00:02:08,167 --> 00:02:15,625 with their husbands found. The military cruelly tortured and buried him here. 26 00:02:16,875 --> 00:02:22,042 20,329 missing persons, only the remains of 865 of them have been located and returned 27 00:02:22,042 --> 00:02:27,250 to their families for burial. These statistics make Peru second only after Guatemala for countries with the most missing persons in Latin America. 28 00:02:27,708 --> 00:02:31,333 We call this place Sanctuary of Memory in La Hoyada 29 00:02:31,792 --> 00:02:40,625 because in 1980 until year 2,000 we suffered violence in Ayacucho, mainly in Ayacucho. 30 00:02:40,625 --> 00:02:44,750 Our relatives were detained by the law enforcement authorities. 31 00:02:46,333 --> 00:02:52,792 Tea Ceremony is about a rapport host and guests, building a space of harmony, 32 00:02:53,625 --> 00:02:56,875 offering the sincerity of their hearts 33 00:02:57,167 --> 00:03:02,250 We came with the idea of sharing something with the “mamitas”, 34 00:03:02,250 --> 00:03:04,708 we believe our gathering help us 35 00:03:04,708 --> 00:03:07,167 heal our memories and the place 36 00:03:09,333 --> 00:03:13,458 Detained people were brought to these military facilities. 37 00:03:13,458 --> 00:03:16,583 Here they (the military) tortured and killed them. 38 00:03:18,458 --> 00:03:23,583 Then they hid the bodies in this place that was a burial site, they called it as cemetery. 39 00:03:24,625 --> 00:03:27,542 When they killed people they ordered bring them to the cemetery. 40 00:03:28,208 --> 00:03:33,708 It was known that there was an oven (incinerator). They buried, and after a while 41 00:03:34,417 --> 00:03:40,333 they exhumated then they incinerated those buried bodies. 42 00:03:41,500 --> 00:03:44,417 After only 109 have found, 43 00:03:47,083 --> 00:03:52,500 only 9 or 14 corpses have been identified from the ANFASEP members. 44 00:03:56,083 --> 00:04:00,875 That is why we as association ANFASEP demand that a Sanctuary for Memory is built 45 00:04:03,458 --> 00:04:07,500 Really, he was there detained and then they made him disappear. 46 00:04:07,750 --> 00:04:09,375 And, so it happened to other people 47 00:04:09,583 --> 00:04:16,417 That is why mama Mendoza since 1983 started looking for their son. 48 00:04:19,208 --> 00:04:21,208 I said: 49 00:04:21,208 --> 00:04:28,792 “Poor woman, there are other mothers looking for their children”. In 1983, it happened to me also. 50 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,542 On 1 December they took my husband from home and took him to the barracks. 51 00:04:35,167 --> 00:04:39,125 to the group of mama Angelica I joined to look for them. 52 00:04:39,625 --> 00:04:42,833 Most people knew they were detained there. 53 00:04:44,292 --> 00:04:53,500 Then in 1984, around 1985, Mama Angelica said ‘It is said that in the barracks they are killing 54 00:04:54,333 --> 00:05:01,292 people and in the adjacent lot, they are burning, it is said there is an oven, 55 00:05:05,083 --> 00:05:08,417 but no one gave us any information. 56 00:05:08,417 --> 00:05:16,708 We came from far. In those times there was nothing in these grounds, they were barren. 57 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:29,208 We couldn’t approach because the military had up there a surveillance tower 58 00:05:29,458 --> 00:05:33,125 guarding all these lands. And that’s why nobody approached (they could be shot down). 59 00:05:33,417 --> 00:05:35,125 But we knew. 60 00:05:35,375 --> 00:05:44,542 In 1987 we have adopted a strategy, to know if it they were lying us or if it was true 61 00:05:45,125 --> 00:05:50,375 what people said, but from this place there was always coming smoke. But when we asked, 62 00:05:51,375 --> 00:06:00,125 they told us “no, they are making bread for the army men, they burn the bones of the animals they use for food”. 63 00:06:03,917 --> 00:06:09,000 So they said to us. In 1987 we made a strategy, three women: myself, 64 00:06:09,292 --> 00:06:18,375 Mrs. Felicita and Mrs. Maura. We said “if they are really burning animal bones and making bread” 65 00:06:19,083 --> 00:06:25,000 This was an unanswered question. One day we came here when we knew that 66 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:31,042 the military men were raising the flag. All members of battalion attended this in the square. 67 00:06:31,042 --> 00:06:36,667 When we were looking from the distance, there was no one in the tower, no one was there, 68 00:06:36,667 --> 00:06:38,125 no one. 69 00:06:38,958 --> 00:06:47,208 We got down here and found ashes, a skull. 70 00:06:48,792 --> 00:06:59,333 Then we took that… various NGOs supported us to find out if these ashes were 71 00:07:01,042 --> 00:07:06,708 from humans or really from animals. But that didn’t happen 72 00:07:09,417 --> 00:07:12,417 Then they denied it, always denied it. 73 00:07:13,458 --> 00:07:19,833 How many people have died in this place. We cannot say. Maybe there are none. 74 00:07:21,125 --> 00:07:26,542 I knew people were detained here. Mama Angelica knew that in these barracks 75 00:07:26,542 --> 00:07:32,750 her son was detained. Because her son, in the lid of the lunchbox sent a note: 76 00:07:34,917 --> 00:07:43,125 “Mum, I am OK. Don’t worry but get a lawyer for getting me out of here” 77 00:07:43,125 --> 00:07:46,167 So was this little note sent to her. 78 00:07:47,417 --> 00:07:52,625 What have they done in the barracks, I think they have burned all those people here, 79 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:59,833 I may not find my (people). Not only me. Maybe twenty, 80 00:07:59,833 --> 00:08:02,833 twenty-one thousand people missing in those times. 81 00:08:04,042 --> 00:08:09,333 Part of them may have been burned and disappeared in the barracks, others, 82 00:08:09,333 --> 00:08:11,667 where should they be? 83 00:08:11,667 --> 00:08:18,542 This is what this space is for us. It is a sacred space because here is that our relatives 84 00:08:18,542 --> 00:08:21,792 have cried, they suffered here, how they’ve been killed? 85 00:08:21,792 --> 00:08:25,042 How they died in so much torture and pain? 86 00:08:26,333 --> 00:08:30,292 That’s why we ask for a Memorial Sanctuary to be built here, 87 00:08:30,375 --> 00:08:34,292 not only for the relatives but for the youth. 88 00:08:34,625 --> 00:08:39,625 To educate them, for this never to happen again, 89 00:08:39,958 --> 00:08:43,250 this situation we have been telling for 20 years. 90 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:48,083 For this reason, ANFASEP works for it not to repeat again. 91 00:08:48,833 --> 00:08:57,042 Young people coming here will see all that happened will reflect 92 00:08:57,042 --> 00:09:01,000 and will not believe in negative ideologies and ideas.