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Seeing Again: Reliving the horrors of Peru’s civil war

Seeing Again: Reliving the horrors of Peru’s civil war

Thirty years after they reported from the epicentre of a civil war in the Peruvian highlands of Ayacucho, three photojournalists return in search of the people they photographed.

Armed with handmade weapons, Indigenous residents of the area had fought back against the brutal Maoist armed group known as the Shining Path.

Vera Lentz, Alejandro Balaguer and Oscar Medrano had captured their resistance in photographs. Now, as they encounter survivors, memories are stirred that challenge the official history of the war.

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