Peru: Putis - 27 Years Since The Massacre - Video

Peru: Putis - 27 Years Since The Massacre - Video   The video reminds us one more time of the massacre of the Putis community - Ayacucho, where more than 120 peasants were killed by members of the Peruvian Army. In 1984 the Peruvian military ordered the people of Putis, Peru to dig a pit, then they gathered the local population around it and executed all of them with gunfire and buried them in the excavated pit. The total number of victims is estimated at 123 men and women from the towns...

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