Tombstone and Memorial, at El Angel cemetery in Lima, of Uchuraccay Massacre Victims: Eduardo De la Piniella, Pedro Sanchez, Felix Gavilan, Willy Retto, Jorge Luis Mendivil, Jorge Sedano, Amador Garcia, Octavio Infante. On January 26, 1983, about forty indigenous community members from Uchuraccay village murdered eight Peruvian journalists from various national news media, who had come to investigate a massacre committed by the terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso in a neighboring municipality. The peasants mistook the journalists for members of the Shining Path and killed them with stones

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Tombstone and Memorial, at El Angel cemetery in Lima, of Uchuraccay Massacre Victims: Eduardo De la Piniella, Pedro Sanchez, Felix Gavilan, Willy Retto, Jorge Luis Mendivil, Jorge Sedano, Amador Garcia, Octavio Infante. On January 26, 1983, about forty indigenous community members from Uchuraccay village murdered eight Peruvian journalists from various national news media, who had come to investigate a massacre committed by the terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso in a neighboring municipality. The peasants mistook the journalists for members of the Shining Path and killed them with stones and machetes.

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