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Alan Garcia never told us “Forgive me, I made a mistake”.
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That what all of us who were affected were waiting for.
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In his first time in government Alan Garcia was young
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and in his second government he had an interview in the Santa Rosa Hotel, with (ANFASEP´s) President
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Angelica (who has now passed on). He rubbed her shoulder and told her
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“Mamacita I made a mistake that time because I was young and now,
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I am older and more mature, I know how to think
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I know how to think and now I have returned to give you all a good compensation.
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This was the conversation he had with the Mother President Angelica Mendoza.
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Throughout history tea was primarily prepared for the noble class even in fields of battle.
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Later the idea of setting aside arms and differences to leave room for tea emerged.
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There, we were all equals.
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But he never asked for our forgiveness, he called us ‘Terrucas’
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the sons of Terrucas, and families of Terrucas.
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I lost a family member in the military battle at the hands of the terrorists.
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If I was a Terruca, the terrorists would not have killed my family.
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On 2 July 1983 they Mama Angelica’s son out of her house.
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That’s when she started to look for him. She knew that they took him to the barracks out here in
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“Los Cabitos”.
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She would even bring a lunch and they would take it from her at the barracks.
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After one week though they had him disappeared.
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In the exhumation it was found that he was tied with cables around his arms,
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neck, and groin.
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In these exhumations there are also young people and pregnant women
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with their husbands found. The military cruelly tortured and buried him here.
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20,329 missing persons, only the remains of 865 of them have been located and returned
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to their families for burial. These statistics make Peru second only after Guatemala for countries with the most missing persons in Latin America.
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We call this place Sanctuary of Memory in La Hoyada
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because in 1980 until year 2,000 we suffered violence in Ayacucho, mainly in Ayacucho.
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Our relatives were detained by the law enforcement authorities.
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Tea Ceremony is about a rapport host and guests, building a space of harmony,
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offering the sincerity of their hearts
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We came with the idea of sharing something with the “mamitas”,
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we believe our gathering help us
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heal our memories and the place
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Detained people were brought to these military facilities.
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Here they (the military) tortured and killed them.
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Then they hid the bodies in this place that was a burial site, they called it as cemetery.
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When they killed people they ordered bring them to the cemetery.
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It was known that there was an oven (incinerator). They buried, and after a while
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they exhumated then they incinerated those buried bodies.
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After only 109 have found,
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only 9 or 14 corpses have been identified from the ANFASEP members.
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That is why we as association ANFASEP demand that a Sanctuary for Memory is built
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Really, he was there detained and then they made him disappear.
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And, so it happened to other people
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That is why mama Mendoza since 1983 started looking for their son.
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I said:
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“Poor woman, there are other mothers looking for their children”. In 1983, it happened to me also.
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On 1 December they took my husband from home and took him to the barracks.
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to the group of mama Angelica I joined to look for them.
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Most people knew they were detained there.
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Then in 1984, around 1985, Mama Angelica said ‘It is said that in the barracks they are killing
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people and in the adjacent lot, they are burning, it is said there is an oven,
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but no one gave us any information.
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We came from far. In those times there was nothing in these grounds, they were barren.
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We couldn’t approach because the military had up there a surveillance tower
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guarding all these lands. And that’s why nobody approached (they could be shot down).
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But we knew.
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In 1987 we have adopted a strategy, to know if it they were lying us or if it was true
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what people said, but from this place there was always coming smoke. But when we asked,
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they told us “no, they are making bread for the army men, they burn the bones of the animals they use for food”.
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So they said to us. In 1987 we made a strategy, three women: myself,
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Mrs. Felicita and Mrs. Maura. We said “if they are really burning animal bones and making bread”
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This was an unanswered question. One day we came here when we knew that
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the military men were raising the flag. All members of battalion attended this in the square.
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When we were looking from the distance, there was no one in the tower, no one was there,
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no one.
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We got down here and found ashes, a skull.
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Then we took that… various NGOs supported us to find out if these ashes were
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from humans or really from animals. But that didn’t happen
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Then they denied it, always denied it.
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How many people have died in this place. We cannot say. Maybe there are none.
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I knew people were detained here. Mama Angelica knew that in these barracks
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her son was detained. Because her son, in the lid of the lunchbox sent a note:
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“Mum, I am OK. Don’t worry but get a lawyer for getting me out of here”
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So was this little note sent to her.
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What have they done in the barracks, I think they have burned all those people here,
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I may not find my (people). Not only me. Maybe twenty,
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twenty-one thousand people missing in those times.
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Part of them may have been burned and disappeared in the barracks, others,
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where should they be?
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This is what this space is for us. It is a sacred space because here is that our relatives
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have cried, they suffered here, how they’ve been killed?
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How they died in so much torture and pain?
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That’s why we ask for a Memorial Sanctuary to be built here,
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not only for the relatives but for the youth.
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To educate them, for this never to happen again,
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this situation we have been telling for 20 years.
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For this reason, ANFASEP works for it not to repeat again.
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Young people coming here will see all that happened will reflect
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and will not believe in negative ideologies and ideas.