By Elizabeth Lino Cornejo
I was crying at the barracks, where a guard told me I'll kill you, you know that have brought you here? I said: If you know why I come. He replied: Not here, india, gosh, I'm going to shoot. I said, let me away with my son. Hope
I was crying at the barracks, where a guard told me I'll kill you, you know that have brought you here? I said: If you know why I come. He replied: Not here, india, gosh, I'm going to shoot. I said, let me away with my son. Hope
Zavaleta
ANFASEP
How long lost son? How long will your silence? Singing a song with these lyrics marched through streets with the smell of death, fear and packed with soldiers, a group of women, boys and girls who like unique
s symbol of political struggle carried a banner and a cross on the top scoring "NO KILL". It was 1985 and John Paul II arrived in Ayacucho, the security measures were extreme and the group could not reach him. But this only to illustrate the countless times when I walked crying out for justice, seeking to be heard and found nothing but silence contempt, humiliation and hatred of the authorities. Walking
has been constant for over 20 years, walking and finding the doors closed, threatening faces and stigmatization. The terror, the awakened one night by pulling down their doors, settled in their lives thrown into the clutches of despair.
looking
have walked under the government, claiming support for the release of their husbands, sons, brothers, help arrives and to find those in the middle of that terrible night had been kidnapped. In principle, the ultimate goal of the association was "to identify the whereabouts of their missing relatives."
ANFASEP Today women are the face, the years have strengthened their spirit of struggle and have overcome fear. At the beginning the women met in secret, met in the streets, at the doors of police stations, where the body dumps hopeless walked among rotting bodies eaten by dogs and pigs, seeking to find the son, brother or partner who they were ripped from their hands. In the midst of that pain, blood, orphans and families were split search, the children were neglected their basic needs. Children grew up amidst the lack, poverty and labor.
The National Association of Relatives Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared of Peru began with a meeting a September 2, 1983, a few days three of its members traveled to Lima with a desire to file complaints of disappearances to the Government, slept in Mars Field. ANFASEP groups Quechua-speaking peasant women and young orphans who unfairly suffered as a consequence not only of terror but because of laziness and discrimination in a country that is still not able to feel this pain in your skin and a state that does not come with repair .
Testimonials pain and anger
Then
came a captain, saying, "Damn, we should kill this old." They said, 'Lord, I have no fear of death, die, die, I will give the five little sun that I have, for the loss of your bullet, but first tell me where my son, when you know where my son is going to die in peace "
came a captain, saying, "Damn, we should kill this old." They said, 'Lord, I have no fear of death, die, die, I will give the five little sun that I have, for the loss of your bullet, but first tell me where my son, when you know where my son is going to die in peace "
Angélica Mendoza De Ascarza
In 2007 the association issued how long your silence? A book containing testimonies of 33 members and partners ANFASEP, whose value lies as a historical document, moreover, that this in their collection and systematization was worked by the young people of the partnership, children walked with their mother and shared dining tables in the days of search. The book is divided into two parts, one that accounts for the formation of the organization, the creation of the Museum of Memory ANFASEP "That does not repeat itself, as well as detailing the history and political violence in Ayacucho. The second part, the bulk of the testimony of pain, injustice and abuse escape through those who know the struggle, strength and determination in pursuit of truth and justice.
The book becomes an essential document taking us to an important part of our history from the voices of its protagonists with names and faces. A book becomes tangible need half stories told by selfish interests and also three years after its publication dissemination has not had the attention they deserve.
few years ago academic debates questioned the rationale of the testimony, perhaps to other societies this is no longer important and has been relegated to only one academic paper which discusses structures and forms. In Spain, the assurance is urgently needed because we need political change. The testimony particularized history, becomes flesh and blood, makes visible to people and situations that are repeatedly reduced to groups of no great importance for the official story. Shows a slice of life that we live but what happens around us. The testimony would be introduced for study in school and university classrooms, it is urgent journey through memory. We need to know the story from all voices, from all the struggles, as is the struggle of mothers ANFASEP.
Todo
No "repair" is going to back to life, dignity, and the lost years. But the state has an obligation comply with the care of impoverished families with terror, to whom the orphans, stigma and racism treated them less than human beings. And we, citizens, we have to remain vigilant as guardians of that memory, as sentient beings to build a new country without forgetting, working for justice and equality.
ANFASEP
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