National Museum of Peru

I visited the biggest museum in Lima, Museo de la Nacion. There was mostly pictures of the past. The most interesting was the years of terrorism 1980-2000 that I have already written of before. Here are some shocking pictures and stories from that time.

A woman accused of being a member in a terrorist group in Cusco prison in 1985. The child was the product of rape perpetrated by law enforcement officials.

Parents of Ernesto Castillo Paez show a photograph of their son, a student at the catholic university, who was detained and then was dissappeared by the members of the national police in Villa El Salvador on October 21, 1990.

Rescue efforts after a car bomb from the terrorist group exploded in Lima September 9, 1992.

Relatives of one of the thirteen victims murdered on February 11, 1985 by alleged terrorist group members in various of the Marginal Road, in Tingo Maria.

An undentified woman was transferred to the morgue of Ayacucho after a confrontation between members of the terrorists and the national police. November 1983.

Survivor of massacre of Lunamarca recovering at the regional hospital of Ayacucho in 1983.

Exhumation of the remains of journalists killed in Uchuracay, Ayacucho in January 1983.