-Caveat Lector- © 2001 Alabama Live, LLC Investigation underway into mass grave found in Peru The Associated Press 5/5/01 9:40 PM LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Authorities on Saturday traveled to a remote Andean village to investigate a grave containing at least 20 bodies thought to have been killed during a brutal war between Peru's military and leftist guerrillas in the 1980s. Residents of Capaya, a tiny community that was caught in the crossfire between rebels and soldiers, say they found the grave more than three years ago on the grounds of a former military encampment when they began digging to expand the hamlet's church. Local authorities belief there are three more mass graves nearby, each with a similar number of bodies, regional ombudsman Silvio Campana said. But villagers kept the discovery secret out of fear. Campana opened an investigation last week after receiving confidential information from a resident. "We saw the remains of at least 20 humans. It frightened us and we decided to stop the church expansion," Capaya mayor Eber Bonifacio told newspaper El Comercio. A team of Peruvian forensic anthropologists set out Saturday morning from the provincial capital of Abancay to the remote farming community 280 miles southeast of Lima, expecting to make the final leg on horseback. The war between Peru's military and Maoist Shining Path and pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement rebels left 30,000 people dead and thousand more missing before the rebels were largely defeated in the early 1990s. Similar mass graves have been found in Peru over the past decade. Authorities would not say whether they thought the military or guerrillas were responsible for the bodies. The military and Shining Path rebels both regularly attacked communities seen as sympathetic to the other side. The army established a makeshift outpost at Capaya in 1987 to fight guerrilla activity in the area but disbanded the operation in 1991. Copyright 2001 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
