Unveiling secrets of war in the Peruvian Andes
The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. When the military and counterinsurgency police forces were dispatched to oppose the insurrection, the violence quickly escalated. The peasant community of Sarhua was a...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
[2011]
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| Summary: | The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. When the military and counterinsurgency police forces were dispatched to oppose the insurrection, the violence quickly escalated. The peasant community of Sarhua was at the epicenter of the conflict, and this small village is the focus of Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes. There, nearly a decade after the event, Olga M. González follows the tangled thread of a public secret: the disappearance of Narciso Huicho, the man blamed for plunging Sarhua into a conflict that would sunder the community for years. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, maps 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780226302706 |