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Peru: Children of journalists murdered in Uchuraccay still await justice

“Their parents were taken from them in 1983, and since then they've asked for the case to be clarified and for justice to be done. 'These are photos that shock me, that always scared me because to me they meant death,'  journalist Alicia Retto said, recalling the snapshots of her father, photographer Willy Retto, taken before he was killed along with nine other people by a group of peasants from Uchuraccay, Ayacucho, on Jan. 26, 1983.

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Yesterday, Jan. 25, at the "Martyrs of Uchuraccay: Stories from the journalists' children" panel, organized by the Peruvian National Association of Journalists, the host and three other journalists spoke about the difficult situation they lived through.

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The journalists called for an institutional commission to find out the truth behind the massacre."

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