To Remember…

At the Museo de la Nacion, the exhibit that was the best done was an exhibition about the years of terrorism in Peru, from around 1980 to the mid-1990s.  It was almost all black-and-white photos, done in the style of the Holocaust museum, and it was truly an evocative display.

A Quechua militiawoman in Ayacucho

Pro-revolution graffiti in a school classroom

Dead dog with a sign around its neck. Reminds me of The Dancer Upstairs.

Tunnel used by Shining Path revolutionaries to escape prison

Save us from the Guerilla War

Military state

Prison demonstrations in solidarity to Presidente Gonzalo

In comes the army

Presidente Gonzalo, leader of the Shining Path, in prison

An orphanage

Tarata, site of a bombing in Miraflores

Members of the Shining Path

Faces of the missing

Orphaned by terrorism