Human Rights: Peru army may have killed farmers

Friday, October 10, 2008
Human Rights: Peru army may have killed farmers

Five people killed by the army during a raid in the Andean region of Vizcatan last month may have been farmers, not terrorists as the government claims, a top Peruvian human rights group said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

"In spite of the advanced state of decomposition (of the bodies), they could be identified because of the clothes they were wearing. Obviously, they could be citizens of the area and not terrorists," said Yuber Alarcon, a lawyer for the group APRODEH.

The case has stirred controversy in a country still haunted by a 1980-2000 civil war, which killed 69,000 people and put civilians in the middle of a conflict between the military and leftist guerrilla groups like the Shining Path.

Alarcon said an additional 11 people were missing following the army's Sept. 14 raid, a claim the military denies.

More:
http://ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/2008/10/human-rights-peru-army-may-have-killed.html

A little further down in the article:

"'It is no secret to anyone that Vizcatan is a complicated, conflict zone,' said Defense Minister Antero Flores-Araoz. 'All the people who were in Vizcatan were terrorists, narco-terrorists or collaborators.'"

How convenient for the government, that all the people in a region are terrorists!

And, how odd that he would call that "complicated." It sounds Bushwhacko simple to me: nuke 'em all, shockin awe, mission accomplished.