Ghosts of Uchuraccay: on to a place of dark secrets and many changes —

New Internationalist, March, 2000

What happened to him? He's not in Ayacucho any more, and no-one seems to know what has become of him. Like so many, he seems to have slipped into silence.

Another is Zosimar Roca, the human-rights lawyer I visited in Ayacucho City in 1985. His office had just been bombed by the Republican Guard. He was acting as a defence lawyer for the Uchuraccay peasants accused of killing the journalists. He left Ayacucho suddenly the same year, apparently for exile in Nicaragua.

Meanwhile those eventually convicted of the killing have died, carrying God-only-knows-what secrets to their graves.