Peru widens civil war compensation for victims of sexual violence
Peru widens civil war compensation for victims of sexual violence
New law extends reparation payments to survivors of sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced abortion and kidnapping
Mattia Cabitza
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 June 2012 09.51 EDT
The testimonies of sexual abuses committed during Peru's bloody internal conflict make for grim reading.
"When the first man was finished, the other abused her in the same way," recalls a teenager who witnessed her sister's rape in 1989, at the height of the country's worst political violence.
"They then gave her some cookies," she continues. "And they told her not to tell her family or they would come back and make her disappear."
Peru's truth and reconciliation commission estimates that 69,000 people, most of them civilians, died or disappeared during the conflict between 1980 and 2000 that pitted government forces against armed rebels.
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