Cette série de portraits réalisée en collaboration avec les Droits de l'Homme, ce Devoir de mémoire, nous rappelle les conséquences dramatiques des années de violence perpétrée par le Sentier Lumineux (plus de 26 000 morts, 4 000 disparus et 50 000 orphelins), et les dérives du gouvernement Fujimori (massacre de "La Cantuta", le 18 juillet 1992. Neufs étudiants et un professeur sont enlevés aux environs d'une heure du matin par un escadron de la mort, le groupe "Colina", formé en 1990 et auteur d'une série de violation des droits humains : disparitions forcées, exécutions extra judiciaires d'étudiants, de paysans, de journalistes...) Le groupe "Les innocents libérés" se composent d'anciens prisonniers condamnés à tort pour terrorisme, tous libérés faute de preuves et se battent encore aujourd'hui pour que justice soit faite. Le peuple péruvien s'organise et prend le même chemin de lutte contre l'impérialisme américain, comme tant d'autres en Amérique latine Lima, Pérou 2006
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Oscar Carlos Paitan P was imprisoned for terrorist acts in the Castro Castro high security prison in Lima, from 28/04/1991 until 04/10/1996. He was tortured and humiliated there. They released him for lack of evidence.
JAF0069822 © Fred Jacquemot
Félix Cuicapusa Martel was imprisoned for terrorist acts in the Castro Castro high security prison in Lima from 03/10/1991 until 17/08/1995. He was tortured and humiliated there. They released him for lack of evidence.
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JAF0069851 © Fred Jacquemot
Maria Cecilia Malpartida Cajas was imprisoned for terrorist acts in the San Marco prison in Huanuco and the Huamancac Prison in Huancayo from 01/10/1992 until 28/07/1997. She survived torture, electrical burns, the plunging of her head under water, Coca Cola up the nose, rape attempts... She was also told that she has AIDS and was hit and fractured. Threats of rape with the handle of a hammer. They released her for lack of evidence.
JAF0069818 © Fred Jacquemot
"Witchcraft".
JAF0069874 © Fred Jacquemot
JAF0069844 © Fred Jacquemot
"Terror".
JAF0069850 © Fred Jacquemot
Cirila Ramos Hancco was imprisoned in the San Sebastian Prison and the Yana Mayo Prison in Puno, and the Chorillos Prison in Lima from 1992 to Dec 1996. "There are so many innocent people in prison. So many people like me who were put away. They all say they know nothing about it. They rape the women and young girls..." She was freed for lack of evidence.
JAF0069820 © Fred Jacquemot
Doris Rodriguez Anampa. Victim of a bombing at the age of 15, on April 8th 1990. Imprisoned for terrorism. Liberated for lack of evidence.
JAF0069833 © Fred Jacquemot
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Doris Caqui Mari Teofilo Rimac C, assassinated the 23/06/1986 by military officers from the Carmen Chico base in Pasco. "There was no justice, no repossession of the bodies. The soldiers don't want to talk. I dearly wish to find my husband's remains, to give him a Christian burial. But this is impossible for us, as well as for the 12 026 other 'missing persons'..." (President of the Families Association).
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Gladys Canales Martinez was imprisoned for terrorist acts at the Chorillos high security prison in Lima from 24/10/1993 until May 2001. "Twenty-five people with balaclavas came in at 4 am, with a girl whose face was covered. They forced her to designate me. It was at the time of repentance. I was tortured, and presented before the judges with my face covered, where I was accused of being the leader of a group of 7 people, a military and political comandante. The sentence lasted 20 years, 12 for the others, including the repentant one. My life goals were ruined, my family disintegrated..." She was released for lack of evidence.
JAF0069823 © Fred Jacquemot
The Oritz Family. The son, Enrique O, was tortured and assassinated at the age of 21, after a military intervention at the National University of Education, known as 'the Cantuta Massacre' (18/07/1992). "... 7 male students, 2 female students and a teacher were abducted at around 1 am by a death squad (the 'Colina' group which was trained in 1990, during Fujimori's government, and who has been the author of a series of human rights violations: forced disappearances, extra-judiciary executions of students, peasants and journalists.) First they were assassinated and buried, then they were moved, to be burnt and buried again... We are not seeking vengeance, only justice, so that these acts will not go unpunished." "It has been 14 years now since my son disappeared and we still have not obtained justice."
JAF0069829 © Fred Jacquemot
JAF0069857 © Fred Jacquemot
Marisol Chavez Ruiz Père Segundo Hilario C, was abducted and assassinated the 06/06/1991. "... We left everything after our father's disappearance. We seek amends and justice. My hopes and dreams didn't come true..."
JAF0069826 © Fred Jacquemot
Pamela Huaringa was abducted and tortured by the police the 22/11/2004 following the assassination of his 36-year old brother, Ricardo H, by the Peruvian police on November 14th 2004. She still recieves threatening anonymous telephone calls.
JAF0069828 © Fred Jacquemot
JAF0069849 © Fred Jacquemot
Raida Condon Fils Armando Richard Amaro C was tortured and assassinated at the age of 25 after a military intervention at the National University of Education, that became known as 'The Cantuta Massacre' (18/07/1992). "... 7 male students, 2 female students and a teacher were abducted at around 1 am by a death squad (the 'Colina' group which was trained in 1990, during Fujimori's government, and who has been the author of a series of human rights violations: forced disappearances, extra-judiciary executions of students, peasants and journalists.) First they were assassinated and buried, then they were moved, to be burnt and buried again... We are not seeking vengeance, only justice, so that these acts will not go unpunished."
JAF0069830 © Fred Jacquemot
"Assassin".
JAF0069852 © Fred Jacquemot
Silvia Dreyfus Tafur. Her husband Oscar Hugo Caldas V was denounced to the Peruvian police and assassinated at the age of 39 on the 29th of March 1990. She was falsely accused of her husband's murder by her in-laws.
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JAF0069853 © Fred Jacquemot
JAF0069845 © Fred Jacquemot
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JAF0069894 © Fred Jacquemot
JAF0069843 © Fred Jacquemot