Uchuraccay massacre: victim's son questions official version 43 years on
Forty-three years after the Uchuraccay massacre, a son of one of the slain journalists challenges the official version of Peru's deadliest crime against the press.
Uchuraccay, 43 years on: a son reopens the debate over the journalists' massacre
Google News PE — Crime reports on a story from elpais.com about the Uchuraccay killings, the largest murder of journalists in Peruvian history, which this year marks four decades and three years since it occurred.
In January 1983, eight journalists and their guide were killed in the Andean community of Uchuraccay, in Ayacucho, amid an armed internal conflict. The official version, backed at the time by a commission headed by writer Mario Vargas Llosa, attributed the killings to community members who mistook the journalists for members of Shining Path.
Now, the son of one of the slain journalists challenges that conclusion. According to the media outlet, the family member questions the foundations of the official investigation and argues that the truth about what happened that day was never established rigorously.
The Uchuraccay case remains one of the most painful and debated episodes in Latin American journalism, and the demand for truth and justice continues to be felt among the victims' families.
Source: Google News PE — Crime