ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF STORM IN THE ANDES 101 MINUTES
(VO INCLUDED )
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Stockholm 1990. Me, at a demonstration
in support of the revolution in Peru.
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When I was a child my Peruvian father
often spoke about his sister Augusta.
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She was the heroine
who started a revolution for the poor in Peru.
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They were called 'Sendero Luminoso'
- 'The Shining Path'
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It sounded like an exiting fairy tale.
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Augusta married Abimael Guzman,
the leader of 'Shining Path'...
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...at my grandparent's house
in Ayacucho in the Andes.
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Together they started
an armed insurgency in 1980.
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Abimael was called 'president Gonzalo'.
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'President Gonzalo is the leader
bringing victory to the peoples of the world.'
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Dad...
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You didn't want me to make this journey.
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But I want to know the truth
and I understand it is not a fairy tale.
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Are you afraid...that I won't be as loyal
to Sendero and Abimael as the rest of the family?
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Dad.
Why don't you trust me?
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I want to understand
why your sister started a war.
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Augusta is my relative.
She is my aunt.
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Your grandfather wrote
me a very beautiful letter.
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He wrote that he longed for Peru.
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-Once he sent me a photo.
-Of your family.
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Oh, it's my mother,
and my father.
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He longed for Peru.
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It's nearly thirty years
since they left Peru.
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I hope this does not happen again.
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It was terrible.
Everyone accused each other.
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People informed on each other
and the army came without forewarning.
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-And your family suffered?
-Very much so.
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Two of my brothers were jailed
accused of belonging to Sendero.
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They threatened to throw them from a helicopter...
if they didn't tell the truth.
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They knew nothing.
They were not involved.
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They beat them up and drowned them in water.
My brother Mario died as a consequence.
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This happened here in Ayacucho.
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-And how is your grandmother Delia?
-She is fine.
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But she would like to have some of
Augusta's belongings.
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Her belongings?
That will be difficult. Who would give you?
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They will never give you.
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Granma wants to know how Augusta died
and where Abimael buried her.
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In a locked glass case the intelligence services
keep a few of Augusta's belongings.
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A plastic rose.
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A wig.
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A wallet.
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"Gifts and personal objects of the terrorist
Augusta La Torre Carrasco..."
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"...alias comrade Norah."
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My aunt.
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'...taking on the heroic resistance offering our life,
for the party and the revolution...'
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They had a dream of equal rights
for everyone in this country.
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But the dream turned
into a terrible nightmare.
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IS EVERYTHING LOST FOR PERU?
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Sendero Luminoso initiated a civil war
that lasted 20 years.
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It brought Peru
close to total collapse.
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Security forces found the picture of Abimael
at the wake of Augusta in a Sendero hideout.
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Ever since his arrest in 1992
Abimael has refused to tell how Augusta died...
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...and where the body is buried.
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Not even grandmother gets to know.
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My father is Peruvian, from Ayacucho.
And all my family are in Sweden.
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-And he is brother of Augusta.
-I know.
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-Is he younger than Sacha?
-Yes.
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I was a good friend of Sacha.
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We made protest posters
together in the house of your grandfather.
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And Augusta...
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...what a rare beauty!
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Passionate, honest...
without any trace of hypocrisy.
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She was always outspoken:
'But Carlos , what's up!'
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Right in the street!
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I think she became subordinated
to this aristocratic person...
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...who wanted to be admired, so typical
of the old Ayacucho aristocracy.
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Augusta used to
walk slightly behind Abimael.
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In the street.
Like this.
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Dad...
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I have asked you so many times...
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...what really happened here in Ayacucho.
But you never answered.
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I started searching
for the answers on my own.
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I got in touch with a photographer
who had worked a long time in Peru.
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He had documented the life of the Andean peasants
in the seventies, before the war.
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He had returned with his camera
and the pictures from 40 years ago.
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-Do you remember who took the photos?
-That man.
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-He was young then. How is he now?
-Like us.
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We will take several pictures.
Also with me in it.
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After so many years!!
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He asked me to come to Peru and meet Flor,
who grew up there during the war.
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Like me she was looking for the answers
to the riddles of her childhood.
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-And here you are!
-Certainly.
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-There is my dad.
-Imagine.
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Peasant leader.
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You were so young daddy!
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That was how I came to Peru
for the first time.
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Like thousands of others the family of Flor
escaped the terror in the Andes...
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...to the slums in Lima.
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When I arrive in Lima I am told
that Flor does not really want to see me.
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She believes
that my family started the war.
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I feel as if I am carrying everything
my family has tried to hide.
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I am afraid.
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-Here comes Josefin.
-Hi.
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/tc 00:15:04:12 00:15:06:08
So this is her?
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-Flor, I have something for you.
-Oh, thank you.
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-Her name is Josefin. Say hello.
-I had a similar sweater when I was a kid.
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May I present Josefin.
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And this is Samuel,
the source of all this.
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So your mother is Swedish.
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-Nice!!
-So you liked it?
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Yes, a French perfume!
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/tc 00:15:49:08 00:15:54:14
Finally we have to start talking
about the inevitable.
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Mikael told us about you...
and your background.
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I was dubious about all this at first.
No, no and no!
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Why?
Because in one way or another, not you but...
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...your father's family.
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Has a political responsibility for all this.
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They involved thousands of young people
in a confused attempt at revolution...
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Thousands died as a consequence.
And he was one of them.
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We only lost one child but there are
families who lost all their children.
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And Abimael is directly responsible
for what happened.
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And evidently those around him.
In this case his wife.
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I am not in Peru to defend Sendero.
I am here to understand what happened...
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/tc 00:17:18:20 00:17:20:16
And why?
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I came with fresh eyes.
I don't know a lot...
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...about your reality.
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But I am here to understand.
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I say...
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...they misled the revolution.
They themselves...
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/tc 00:17:51:07 00:17:57:11
But the error is of the party.
The leadership of the party.
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When Sendero was repressed
it was the population that suffered the violence
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Claudio is a result of that.
He died...or disappeared...
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/tc 00:18:13:04 00:18:16:22
And until this day we only have the photo.
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/tc 00:18:25:17 00:18:31:19
Flor ir ceaselessly trying to find out
the truth about her disappeared brother.
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/tc 00:18:32:10 00:18:37:17
She was the last
of her family to see Claudio.
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She was only eight
when he disappeared.
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Claudio started studying literature.
Politics were all around.
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The police often
intervened at the University.
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Claudio was arrested in march 1986.
He was accused of belonging to Sendero.
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Another story.
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Flor does not believe
the accusation against Claudio.
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Reading manuscripts he left behind
she tries to understand what happened.
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"Inside him a feeling
of compassion came alive."
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"With those who suffered.
With the people of the land."
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"And so the words of his father
started to grow in his mind."
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Claudio.
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Claudio.
With Dad, when he was still young.
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My son became a student.
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He was the first person from the village
to enter university.
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My son was intelligent.
Intelligent and tender.
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He liked to write poetry.
He also wrote poetry to me.
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Here is the manuscript of
"Tales of two kingdoms". Short stories...
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...that finally were published.
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'For Samuel and Simeona,
who taught me never to bow to anyone.'
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And that is true.
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Claudio left his words behind.
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/tc 00:21:04:19 00:21:10:08
Augusta left only silence
and a few images.
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Here are photos
from the archive of my father.
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My father photographed
the middle- and upper classes.
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Poor people seldom had their photo taken.
But these people had probably saved money...
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/tc 00:21:31:19 00:21:38:21
I find the man who photographed
the wedding of Augusta and Abimael.
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Your aunt Augusta visited the photo studio...
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...to have her picture taken for official use.
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I remember her as a women who
could have earned status and prestige.
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She was a women
who had a great social conscience.
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And in Ayacucho there were hard times
with deep social inequality.
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Nevertheless we were greatly surprised
by her transforamtion when she married Abimael Guzman.
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They went the violent way
wanting to change Peru by force...
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This is definitely the last photo that was taken.
1973 or -74.
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In 1975 they went underground.
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And were never again seen in public.
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Long live the Communist Party of Peru!
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/tc 00:22:58:18 00:23:05:02
Senedero started the insurgency
in the Andes in 1980.
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The army was sent to the mountains
to crush the uprising.
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They made no difference
between the guilty and the innocent.
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/tc 00:23:25:03 00:23:31:20
A reign of terror
descended on the Andes.
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/tc 00:23:42:10 00:23:48:18
Sendero retaliated brutally
and killed many innocents.
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/tc 00:23:48:21 00:23:53:21
This is how exploiters and informers die.
Long live the People's War!
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/tc 00:26:13:11 00:26:19:03
I am in an interview.
I call you when I am ready.
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/tc 00:26:20:03 00:26:25:20
It's great that you have come to Peru
and talked to people.
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/tc 00:26:25:13 00:26:28:08
I am sure it's been
good for people to talk to you.
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/tc 00:26:29:21 00:26:36:17
I get the impression that it is
hard for you to be here.
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Yes, it's hard...
I feel that I am carrying it all by myself.
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/tc 00:26:41:17 00:26:45:23
I understand my father and my uncles...
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I am here to do something
they can't do.
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/tc 00:26:54:15 00:26:57:03
That's why...
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/tc 00:27:08:13 00:27:14:10
Dad.
You are avoiding my questions.
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/tc 00:27:14:20 00:27:19:05
You don't want to
be in this film.
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/tc 00:27:21:05 00:27:26:05
You deny what I tell
you about Peru.
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/tc 00:27:28:09 00:27:36:05
What version have your family told you
about what happened here in Peru?
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For my family...the revolution
and what happened in Peru is also a wound.
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It is also something
we don't talk a lot about, because...
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Ever since I was a child I wanted to know
what happened in Peru and with Augusta.
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/tc 00:28:00:18 00:28:05:00
Maybe truth hurts...
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/tc 00:28:05:20 00:28:14:03
Because she was part of
the armed struggle they initiated.
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/tc 00:28:14:07 00:28:20:18
-She participated...
-She was second in command after Abimal.
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/tc 00:28:23:22 00:28:30:24
We are opening the deepest wound of Peru.
They want to keep it hidden.
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/tc 00:28:31:04 00:28:40:17
They want to hide the wound
although it is not healed at all.
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/tc 00:28:41:02 00:28:45:11
I am sorry that you too have been hurt.
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/tc 00:28:45:16 00:28:53:18
Maybe you have never shared
the opinions of the aunt you never met.
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/tc 00:28:54:23 00:29:01:00
Augusta was also a daughter, a sister...
I don't understand...
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/tc 00:29:01:12 00:29:06:09
...since I don't live with these things.
I live in Sweden.
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/tc 00:29:06:19 00:29:14:14
I never experienced a civil war,
an armed struggle, a peoples war...
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Dad.
Down in the valley lies the estate Iribamba.
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That is where you grew up
together with Augusta.
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Everyone describes it as paradise.
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Now it is abandoned and destroyed
from the war started by Abimael and Augusta.
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Your ancestors were friends of my grandmother
so we always visited during vacations.
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/tc 00:29:57:21 00:30:04:18
Over there were the orange trees
and we ate as much as we could.
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/tc 00:30:05:08 00:30:10:16
The oranges were sweet as honey.
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/tc 00:30:13:00 00:30:23:04
Augusta and I were the youngest
and in the evenings we played 'zampay'.
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-'Zampay'?
-Hide and seek.
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/tc 00:30:39:05 00:30:44:11
-How was life in Iribamba?
-It was a rich life.
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They had everything
in abundance because there...
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/tc 00:30:49:11 00:30:55:23
...people worked
at the command of the landlord...
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/tc 00:30:56:08 00:31:01:01
...the masters of the land,
your grandfathers.
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/tc 00:31:01:13 00:31:05:23
Even your great grandfathers.
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/tc 00:31:06:04 00:31:09:17
We are family!
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After supper the adults talked.
/file 0210
/tc 00:31:14:08 00:31:21:16
Augusta and I were the minors
so we should not talk, only listen...
/file 0211
/tc 00:31:22:02 00:31:27:19
...to the Stalinist and reformist
discussions of the adults.
/file 0212
/tc 00:31:27:24 00:31:32:06
So there were frequent debates?
/file 0213
/tc 00:31:32:12 00:31:36:24
Family discussions.
/file 0214
/tc 00:31:37:09 00:31:42:24
Once my father told your great grandmother
to give away the land if she was a communist.
/file 0215
/tc 00:31:43:05 00:31:51:18
'No Don David, don't touch what is mine!'
That's some communism.
/file 0216
/tc 00:31:56:06 00:32:04:04
-How was Augusta.
-Cheerful and rather straightforward.
/file 0217
/tc 00:32:04:12 00:32:08:08
She taught us to understand
the world around us.
/file 0218
/tc 00:32:08:14 00:32:13:05
She liked our family,
especially my father.
/file 0219
/tc 00:32:13:18 00:32:17:05
All of us spoke Quechua.
/file 0220
/tc 00:32:17:15 00:32:23:05
And she was delighted
'How great, you all speak Quechua!'
/file 0221
/tc 00:32:23:09 00:32:30:15
She taught us
to appreciate our roots.
/file 0222
/tc 00:32:32:08 00:32:40:09
How is it possible that Augusta
who grew up here joined Sendero?
/file 0223
/tc 00:32:42:17 00:32:51:01
I think she was affected
by the inequalities she saw.
/file 0224
/tc 00:32:51:13 00:32:56:12
The difference between
those who had and those who didn't.
/file 0225
/tc 00:32:56:22 00:33:02:19
Then she entered
the school of the nuns.
/file 0226
/tc 00:33:02:23 00:33:09:10
And she became the
spokesperson of the students.
/file 0227
/tc 00:33:10:11 00:33:17:14
So she had a certain formation
that was completed when Abimael...
/file 0228
/tc 00:33:18:05 00:33:21:11
...rented a room in the house.
/file 0229
/tc 00:33:21:15 00:33:26:08
She shared her ideas
about the classes with Abimael.
/file 0230
/tc 00:33:26:11 00:33:34:04
-But she had those ideas before meeting Abimael.
-She had them, but they were dormant.
/file 0231
/tc 00:33:34:16 00:33:42:09
To me, she was
the brain of the organisation.
/file 0232
/tc 00:33:43:00 00:33:49:22
Abimael never spent time
in the countryside. He stayed at the university.
/file 0233
/tc 00:33:54:06 00:34:00:05
It must have been in 1982.
The last time I saw her.
/file 0234
/tc 00:34:01:12 00:34:05:15
Disguised as a peasant woman.
/file 0235
/tc 00:34:35:24 00:34:44:10
Flor and I don't say much on the long trip
to the village were she and Claudio were born.
/file 0236
/tc 00:34:45:20 00:34:52:10
Does she think that it was Augusta
who brought the war to her village?
/file 0237
/tc 00:35:07:17 00:35:13:04
The family of Flor
escaped the village during the war.
/file 0238
/tc 00:35:13:06 00:35:16:00
I can't!
OK, carry.
/file 0239
/tc 00:35:17:20 00:35:26:00
But her parents always return
to the land that cost them so much.
/file 0240
/tc 00:35:32:17 00:35:35:02
Help me!
/file 0241
/tc 00:35:35:20 00:35:39:14
You won't make it.
/file 0242
/tc 00:35:40:12 00:35:44:11
-Mother I can't!
-Hurry up.
/file 0243
/tc 00:35:52:24 00:35:56:24
Take it away.
/file 0244
/tc 00:36:00:24 00:36:06:01
I am no good at carrying.
/file 0245
/tc 00:36:27:08 00:36:29:23
Claudio...
/file 0246
/tc 00:36:30:12 00:36:32:24
...and Augusta.
/file 0247
/tc 00:36:33:11 00:36:40:10
Two names that unite us
but also creates an abyss between us.
/file 0248
/tc 00:36:44:02 00:36:50:07
Claudio was the son of a poor peasant
fighting for the right to his land.
/file 0249
/tc 00:36:52:01 00:36:57:07
Augusta was the daughter
of a communist landlord.
/file 0250
/tc 00:36:57:16 00:36:59:07
My grandfather.
/file 0251
/tc 00:37:09:16 00:37:13:03
Let me talk to your mother.
/file 0252
/tc 00:37:13:11 00:37:18:22
We are at the height of Churapayana
going to Huancane.
/file 0253
/tc 00:37:19:21 00:37:24:15
I just wanted to check
if the cell phone worked here.
/file 0254
/tc 00:37:30:05 00:37:35:05
It worked!
First time it works.
/file 0255
/tc 00:37:37:04 00:37:45:04
I also worked the land up there.
On your uncle Genaro's land, up there.
/file 0256
/tc 00:37:47:11 00:37:52:19
Claudio wanted to
write about it all, didn't he?
/file 0257
/tc 00:37:53:05 00:37:59:23
-He participated in the land occupations like all kids.
-Yes he did.
/file 0258
/tc 00:38:00:10 00:38:09:15
But then he goes to Lima
and gets influenced by ideologies.
/file 0259
/tc 00:38:09:19 00:38:14:20
But he didn't want to
get involved, he...
/file 0260
/tc 00:38:15:00 00:38:20:05
...wanted to write.
/file 0261
/tc 00:38:21:05 00:38:26:21
He always argued against exploitation,
and the conditions of the peasants.
/file 0262
/tc 00:38:27:00 00:38:31:00
He also experienced part of it.
/file 0263
/tc 00:38:32:11 00:38:39:18
'They only remember us at election time
when they come to buy our votes, said his father.'
/file 0264
/tc 00:38:40:20 00:38:48:11
'It was the truth.
In this area there were no doctors. Nothing.'
/file 0265
/tc 00:38:50:18 00:38:56:21
'When people protested,
soldiers were sent to crush them.'
/file 0266
/tc 00:38:58:03 00:39:02:02
'That was what governement was.'
/file 0267
/tc 00:39:11:18 00:39:20:14
Claudio writes about an oppression
going on since the Spanish conquest.
/file 0268
/tc 00:39:26:02 00:39:31:22
Four hundred years ago, the eyewitness
Guaman Poma documented the fall of the Incas...
/file 0269
/tc 00:39:32:03 00:39:36:19
...in a handwritten book.
/file 0270
/tc 00:39:37:11 00:39:44:18
He tells about a civilisation
extending over large parts of the Andes.
/file 0271
/tc 00:39:45:05 00:39:52:14
There were grand constructions,
roads, bridges and planned farming.
/file 0272
/tc 00:39:53:07 00:40:02:05
Everything was organized to survive for centuries.
/file 0273
/tc 00:40:13:20 00:40:19:19
'Legislation of the Incas.'
/file 0274
/tc 00:40:21:05 00:40:25:22
'We command an abundance
of food in the kingdom.'
/file 0275
/tc 00:40:26:02 00:40:31:02
'Lots of corn, potatoes
and ocas should be planted.'
/file 0276
/tc 00:40:31:07 00:40:38:02
'So that there will be enough
to eat all the year around.'
/file 0277
/tc 00:40:39:24 00:40:45:11
Guaman Poma describes
a kingdom that is doomed.
/file 0278
/tc 00:40:47:12 00:40:54:08
The Spanish conquerors are approaching
from the other side of the ocean.
/file 0279
/tc 00:40:57:19 00:41:05:00
The horses and superior weapons
of the Spaniards decide the outcome of the battle.
/file 0280
/tc 00:41:16:18 00:41:24:06
The Inca Atahualpa
is taken prisoner and executed.
/file 0281
/tc 00:41:26:21 00:41:34:07
'The land will be lost,
the kingdom will be laid waste and abandoned.'
/file 0282
/tc 00:41:36:19 00:41:46:01
Guaman Poma writes his book in secrecy
while serving the new Spanish lords.
/file 0283
/tc 00:41:52:15 00:41:59:24
'They rob the Indians of their land,
their homes, women and daughters.'
/file 0284
/tc 00:42:01:18 00:42:07:11
'And there is no way out
because they all get together.'
/file 0285
/tc 00:42:07:15 00:42:09:02
'The judge...
/file 0286
/tc 00:42:09:03 00:42:11:01
'The judge...the administrator...
/file 0287
/tc 00:42:11:02 00:42:12:24
The judge...the administrator...
...the colonel...
/file 0288
/tc 00:42:13:00 00:42:15:20
The judge...the administrator...
...the colonel...priests
/file 0289
/tc 00:42:17:06 00:42:22:21
'All are against the poor.'
/file 0290
/tc 00:42:24:00 00:42:27:21
'Writing about it
is to cry.'
/file 0291
/tc 00:42:39:08 00:42:46:16
Ever since the conquest countless
indigenous rebellions have been defeated.
/file 0292
/tc 00:42:47:02 00:42:54:00
Little changed until the peasants won the
struggle for the right to land in the 1970's.
/file 0293
/tc 00:42:54:16 00:43:01:12
-There is the estate Huancahuacho.
-Yes, Huancahuacho. And the house.
/file 0294
/tc 00:43:02:18 00:43:06:04
-There you are.
-Yes.
/file 0295
/tc 00:43:06:13 00:43:11:24
-How did they treat us at work?
-Terribly bad!
/file 0296
/tc 00:43:12:03 00:43:17:21
We couldn't even taste one fruit
because they smelled us in the mouth.
/file 0297
/tc 00:43:18:11 00:43:21:08
-When leaving work.
-Yes.
/file 0298
/tc 00:43:21:10 00:43:26:22
'If you have eaten, then everyone has eaten
and will be punished' , they said.
/file 0299
/tc 00:43:27:06 00:43:33:05
-And then we were punished.
-We had to work two days without pay.
/file 0300
/tc 00:43:33:21 00:43:38:12
'You have eaten your fill', they said.
/file 0301
/tc 00:43:40:14 00:43:46:21
And we milked the cows and couldn't
even have the skim.
/file 0302
/tc 00:43:47:02 00:43:49:03
Nothing!
/file 0303
/tc 00:43:49:07 00:43:54:02
We couldn't even
give the skim to the kids.
/file 0304
/tc 00:43:54:16 00:43:59:17
We were many labourers
and had a lot of children.
/file 0305
/tc 00:44:00:10 00:44:06:24
Then you were happy
when we took over the land?
/file 0306
/tc 00:44:07:03 00:44:10:14
When we became free.
/file 0307
/tc 00:44:11:15 00:44:16:20
-Then we were happy. Finally.
-Happy.
/file 0308
/tc 00:44:17:11 00:44:21:17
"Long live the land occupations!"
/file 0309
/tc 00:44:22:02 00:44:30:03
When finally the land was recaptured 1974
Samuel was one of the leaders.
/file 0310
/tc 00:44:31:22 00:44:36:24
-There you are!
-Yes.
/file 0311
/tc 00:44:37:22 00:44:42:14
Well Don Nestor,
as always with our coca.
/file 0312
/tc 00:44:43:01 00:44:47:08
-And we were never without coca.
-Never.
/file 0313
/tc 00:44:47:16 00:44:49:22
There you are.
/file 0314
/tc 00:44:50:09 00:44:54:02
-Yes, that is me.
-And brave.
/file 0315
/tc 00:44:54:12 00:45:00:20
I was the one
who threw out the landlord.
/file 0316
/tc 00:45:17:08 00:45:21:02
Long live the land occupations!
/file 0317
/tc 00:45:21:12 00:45:25:23
Long live Osccollo!
/file 0318
/tc 00:45:27:19 00:45:32:21
We were united.
Like one hand. United!
/file 0319
/tc 00:45:33:15 00:45:39:02
-When you entered the estate?
-Exactly.
/file 0320
/tc 00:45:40:02 00:45:46:19
We came at night,
at three o'clock in the morning.
/file 0321
/tc 00:45:47:23 00:45:54:09
From two sides, towards the estate.
As if going to work.
/file 0322
/tc 00:45:55:01 00:46:00:18
The landlord came out carrying his rifle
to hand out the tools.
/file 0323
/tc 00:46:01:01 00:46:07:15
Handing out the tools
he also hands out coca for everyone.
/file 0324
/tc 00:46:08:03 00:46:12:09
But then...
Do you know what happened?
/file 0325
/tc 00:46:12:21 00:46:18:06
With his rifle...
Come brother, come here a moment.
/file 0326
/tc 00:46:18:16 00:46:25:10
-Let us pretend you are the landlord, with his rifle.
-Sure.
/file 0327
/tc 00:46:25:15 00:46:32:03
The workers gather
receiving their coca and the tools.
/file 0328
/tc 00:46:32:12 00:46:37:12
While he is occupied
one of us takes his rifle away.
/file 0329
/tc 00:46:38:01 00:46:42:17
In that moment
Escarzena lost his power!
/file 0330
/tc 00:46:43:03 00:46:49:06
When he lost his rifle he lost his power.
He could not defend himself!
/file 0331
/tc 00:46:49:16 00:46:54:10
And when he was disarmed
you threw him out.
/file 0332
/tc 00:46:54:17 00:46:59:13
No, we tied him
to the horse.
/file 0333
/tc 00:46:59:21 00:47:06:00
-He pretended to faint.
-But away with him!
/file 0334
/tc 00:47:06:03 00:47:12:23
-But without hurting him?
-Without hurting him.
/file 0335
/tc 00:47:13:11 00:47:19:12
-Since it was about the land.
-The land, the land.
/file 0336
/tc 00:47:29:13 00:47:35:09
The peasants liberated themselves
from the landlords without violence.
/file 0337
/tc 00:47:35:16 00:47:40:11
"We fight for independence.
Land to all the peasants!"
/file 0338
/tc 00:47:41:03 00:47:46:03
The land reform of general Velasco...
/file 0339
/tc 00:47:46:16 00:47:52:18
...had changed the situation in
favor of the peasants.
/file 0340
/tc 00:47:53:06 00:47:57:24
But the victory over the landlords
was short-lived.
/file 0341
/tc 00:47:58:03 00:48:02:14
What happened after
you had taken back the land?
/file 0342
/tc 00:48:03:02 00:48:11:04
The organisation was crushed...
/file 0343
/tc 00:48:12:01 00:48:17:15
...because the leaders were imprisoned
and we were weakened.
/file 0344
/tc 00:48:17:24 00:48:23:11
The government changed
and the land once again came in dispute.
/file 0345
/tc 00:48:30:15 00:48:37:05
The military reformists were overthrown
by a conservative military coup.
/file 0346
/tc 00:48:38:16 00:48:43:12
The hope
of peaceful change dies.
/file 0347
/tc 00:48:45:05 00:48:50:23
'When his father arrived
he asked him what had happened.'
/file 0348
/tc 00:48:51:02 00:48:55:12
'In a few words he told him.'
/file 0349
/tc 00:48:55:17 00:49:00:05
'They had taken back their land,
and not only there...'
/file 0350
/tc 00:49:00:13 00:49:05:13
'...but in lots of villages
they had done the same.'
/file 0351
/tc 00:49:05:17 00:49:12:13
'So the governement sent a battalion
of soldiers to quell them.'
/file 0352
/tc 00:49:17:19 00:49:23:24
In these years the hope for peaceful change
was crushed all over Latin America.
/file 0353
/tc 00:49:25:22 00:49:31:12
In Chile president Allende
dies in a coup led by general Pinochet.
/file 0354
/tc 00:49:32:19 00:49:37:19
In Argentina the military
seizes power in 1976.
/file 0355
/tc 00:49:49:18 00:49:56:23
The conditions of exploitation
and inequality were so extreme that...
/file 0356
/tc 00:49:57:02 00:50:04:03
...if someone seriously
spoke of revolutionary change...
/file 0357
/tc 00:50:04:16 00:50:07:13
...and we were many
talking about it.
/file 0358
/tc 00:50:07:15 00:50:13:24
Everyone expected an armed uprising
and people believed...
/file 0359
/tc 00:50:14:21 00:50:22:14
...that Peru of that time
would change like Cuba.
/file 0360
/tc 00:50:25:23 00:50:29:09
"We have started a socialist revolution!"
/file 0361
/tc 00:50:35:07 00:50:40:15
In Vietnam an army of peasants
defeats the US superpower.
/file 0362
/tc 00:50:41:24 00:50:49:00
Among the Peruvian peasant leaders
some see Mao's China as a model.
/file 0363
/tc 00:50:58:10 00:51:04:17
Augusta and Abimael travel to China
and believe they see the future.
/file 0364
/tc 00:51:07:15 00:51:15:21
When they came back
they were transformed!
/file 0365
/tc 00:51:17:01 00:51:24:09
They talked about the cultural revolution
and of changing their way of thinking.
/file 0366
/tc 00:51:24:17 00:51:29:19
They thought it was possible to change
someone's way of thinking.
/file 0367
/tc 00:51:31:22 00:51:36:20
Augusta secretly arrives
to the region of Samuel and Claudio.
/file 0368
/tc 00:51:37:03 00:51:43:09
She brings a promise of violent revolution
without betrayal of the peasants.
/file 0369
/tc 00:51:45:01 00:51:50:13
In 1978 Augusta La Torre
appears in Cayara.
/file 0370
/tc 00:51:50:24 00:51:55:00
I didn't know her,
but she presented herself.
/file 0371
/tc 00:51:55:08 00:52:00:06
-So she presented herself as Augusta?
-Yes.
/file 0372
/tc 00:52:00:15 00:52:06:02
And she said that she was the wife
of Abimael Guzman.
/file 0373
/tc 00:52:06:15 00:52:14:08
In a short conversation she said:
'Teacher, in the coming three days...'
/file 0374
/tc 00:52:15:10 00:52:19:00
'...we will have an open debate
here in Cayara...'
/file 0375
/tc 00:52:19:10 00:52:27:18
Down there my aunt Augusta meets with
the local leaders of the peasants.
/file 0376
/tc 00:52:28:06 00:52:33:09
As director of the school I coordinated...
/file 0377
/tc 00:52:33:19 00:52:38:15
..the visit of Augusta La Torre.
/file 0378
/tc 00:52:38:21 00:52:45:10
I was ordered to close
the school for three days.
/file 0379
/tc 00:52:45:18 00:52:50:17
So they came and talked nicely to you.
And were you present during the meeting?
/file 0380
/tc 00:52:51:01 00:52:58:22
Yes, and Sendero Luminoso
determined that the land occupations...
/file 0381
/tc 00:52:59:16 00:53:04:20
...were a mistake,
according to them.
/file 0382
/tc 00:53:05:10 00:53:07:17
-And then what happened
with the peasants?
/file 0383
/tc 00:53:07:21 00:53:11:08
-The peasants
were confused, of course!
/file 0384
/tc 00:53:13:01 00:53:23:12
Sendero talked about a peoples war.
And I said NO!
/file 0385
/tc 00:53:24:07 00:53:30:16
-So they wanted to imitate China
although Peru was different?
/file 0386
/tc 00:53:30:21 00:53:34:03
Yes.
/file 0387
/tc 00:53:38:12 00:53:43:14
Members of Sendero began
to visit the villages.
/file 0388
/tc 00:53:43:18 00:53:50:18
They started party schools,
punished criminals and recruited people.
/file 0389
/tc 00:53:51:12 00:53:55:13
In the beginning
the recruitment was voluntary.
/file 0390
/tc 00:53:57:01 00:54:04:18
Thank you aunt! You never denied us food
and you treated us like your own children.
/file 0391
/tc 00:54:05:04 00:54:08:15
How we have cried!
/file 0392
/tc 00:54:08:20 00:54:11:15
We shared all our sorrows.
/file 0393
/tc 00:54:11:20 00:54:16:05
-Aunt, who came first; the military or Sendero?
-Sendero.
/file 0394
/tc 00:54:16:07 00:54:20:05
The military came after them.
/file 0395
/tc 00:54:20:09 00:54:26:04
How come that some villagers
were convinced to join that group?
/file 0396
/tc 00:54:26:11 00:54:30:04
Through meetings.
Meetings.
/file 0397
/tc 00:54:30:16 00:54:34:02
What did they say to people?
/file 0398
/tc 00:54:34:05 00:54:40:04
They promised that poverty was going to end.
Totally!
/file 0399
/tc 00:54:40:13 00:54:46:08
No poverty!
Poor and rich were going to be equal.
/file 0400
/tc 00:54:46:11 00:54:49:04
That convinced people.
/file 0401
/tc 00:54:49:07 00:54:55:07
But it was not true.
They cheated people with lies.
/file 0402
/tc 00:54:55:10 00:54:58:16
There was no equality.
/file 0403
/tc 00:54:58:19 00:55:03:08
-Instead there was physical and psychological abuse.
-Were they armed?
/file 0404
/tc 00:55:03:11 00:55:07:13
Not at first,
but then little by little...
/file 0405
/tc 00:55:07:20 00:55:13:12
I was told that they
handed over arms to people...
/file 0406
/tc 00:55:13:20 00:55:17:15
People were forced to accept arms.
/file 0407
/tc 00:55:17:23 00:55:24:15
In a meeting they were forced.
Forced.
/file 0408
/tc 00:55:24:23 00:55:30:21
-Celestino was forced to.
-And if not they would kill him. That was it.
/file 0409
/tc 00:55:31:08 00:55:36:02
People from here were forced.
Everyone was forced.
/file 0410
/tc 00:55:49:04 00:55:54:12
In one of the villages people felt
so threatened by Sendero...
/file 0411
/tc 00:55:54:20 00:55:58:21
...that the authorities were informed.
/file 0412
/tc 00:56:01:05 00:56:05:02
I had a strong and well-spoken son.
/file 0413
/tc 00:56:06:09 00:56:10:23
Valeriano went quickly to Andahuaylas.
/file 0414
/tc 00:56:11:08 00:56:15:24
They immediately sent helicopters.
/file 0415
/tc 00:56:16:12 00:56:22:02
So police and military arrived
and started chasing them.
/file 0416
/tc 00:56:17:10 00:56:23:19
The leader of Sendero was a teacher
from the University in Humamanga.
/file 0417
/tc 00:56:24:04 00:56:28:14
They tried to escape
without returning the fire.
/file 0418
/tc 00:56:28:20 00:56:33:12
-Their weapons didn't work.
-They only served to intimidate.
/file 0419
/tc 00:56:34:14 00:56:41:09
The prisoners were
placed in an old cart like this...
/file 0420
/tc 00:56:41:13 00:56:46:11
And they shot them all.
/file 0421
/tc 00:56:46:18 00:56:53:22
-That was no arrest but a massacre!
-But they would have massacred us.
/file 0422
/tc 00:56:54:09 00:57:00:21
Afterwards the movement wanted revenge
and came back a year later...
/file 0423
/tc 00:57:01:10 00:57:07:22
... looking for those
who had informed the police.
/file 0424
/tc 00:57:08:14 00:57:12:21
As result
four persons died here in Antasco.
/file 0425
/tc 00:57:13:05 00:57:17:20
And her....
father was one of the victims.
/file 0426
/tc 00:57:18:06 00:57:23:10
-My mother was left pregnant.
-How old were you?
/file 0427
/tc 00:57:23:14 00:57:27:02
-Almost seven. And I saw how they killed my father.
-You saw it...
/file 0428
/tc 00:57:27:11 00:57:32:07
They were buried in the school.
My father too.
/file 0429
/tc 00:57:32:12 00:57:37:19
Two days later
the military arrived.
/file 0430
/tc 00:57:47:20 00:57:53:16
The army attacked
as a foreign occupying force.
/file 0431
/tc 00:57:58:08 00:58:04:10
Every poor peasant was
suspected of being a terrorist.
/file 0432
/tc 00:58:11:02 00:58:16:07
They started abusing ordinary people.
/file 0433
/tc 00:58:16:14 00:58:22:21
They raped women and there are children
of soldiers here in Antasco.
/file 0434
/tc 00:58:24:10 00:58:32:07
Many innocents were accused
of terrorism and were beaten and massacred.
/file 0435
/tc 00:58:32:15 00:58:38:24
-Bastards!
-This happened in the villages. A terrible injustice...
/file 0436
/tc 00:58:41:03 00:58:47:08
It seemed like nothing had changed
since Guaman Poma wrote his book.
/file 0437
/tc 00:58:48:13 00:58:55:18
"Everyone is against the poor.
And there is no way out"
/file 0438
/tc 00:58:58:24 00:59:05:05
The army left a trail of
massacres and destroyed villages.
/file 0439
/tc 00:59:24:03 00:59:31:16
In this place...
between 1983 and 1985...
/file 0440
/tc 00:59:31:24 00:59:37:09
They assassinated people
brought to these military barracks.
/file 0441
/tc 00:59:38:11 00:59:44:02
They also cremated the bodies.
There are furnaces.
/file 0442
/tc 00:59:47:23 00:59:53:20
The military entered my house at night
and abducted my husband...
/file 0443
/tc 00:59:53:23 01:00:00:14
...accusing him of terrorism
although I know that he was never a terrorist.
/file 0444
/tc 01:00:01:05 01:00:07:22
-He was only a worker and university student.
-And you still don't know what happened to him?
/file 0445
/tc 01:00:08:05 01:00:15:08
They took him to the barracks
and tortured him.
/file 0446
/tc 01:00:15:13 01:00:19:05
A military told me.
/file 0447
/tc 01:00:19:13 01:00:25:01
Without any investigation they
came to his home and took him.
/file 0448
/tc 01:00:25:11 01:00:32:09
With what justification?
They didn't know who was a terrorist and killed anyone.
/file 0449
/tc 01:00:32:24 01:00:37:23
Most of those killed were innocent.
/file 0450
/tc 01:00:38:08 01:00:42:03
Fortunately...
I am still alive...
/file 0451
/tc 01:00:52:00 01:00:55:20
We have been through so much...
/file 0452
/tc 01:00:55:23 01:01:00:23
Sometimes I curse...
Abimael Guzman.
/file 0453
/tc 01:01:01:10 01:01:07:02
Had he not started all this,
we would not have suffered so.
/file 0454
/tc 01:01:11:07 01:01:18:21
The problem of Sendero's revolution
was that it was no liberating revolution.
/file 0455
/tc 01:01:19:04 01:01:25:02
First and foremost you had to give your life
to become a revolutionary.
/file 0456
/tc 01:01:25:15 01:01:33:09
...then they used the righteous resentment,
as I call it...
/file 0457
/tc 01:01:33:12 01:01:38:06
Not that I as peasant will
have a better life with the revolution...
/file 0458
/tc 01:01:38:14 01:01:41:23
But I will be able
to fuck those bastards...
/file 0459
/tc 01:01:42:06 01:01:47:18
So the violence
that he advocated is...
/file 0460
/tc 01:01:48:10 01:01:56:09
...terrible, because it is not about killing
but an ideological violence to subordinate people.
/file 0461
/tc 01:01:56:17 01:02:02:23
And it is a violence where he says that...
/file 0462
/tc 01:02:04:02 01:02:09:12
...to win the war
you have to make two things.
/file 0463
/tc 01:02:10:05 01:02:17:10
Give the peasant a weapon
and let him feel the power.
/file 0464
/tc 01:02:21:02 01:02:23:23
Let him taste it.
/file 0465
/tc 01:02:24:07 01:02:27:14
Someone who has tasted power...
/file 0466
/tc 01:02:27:19 01:02:30:07
...will not give up the power!
/file 0467
/tc 01:02:30:15 01:02:37:07
But this peasant who has power...the weapon...
also uses it to oppress his wife.
/file 0468
/tc 01:02:37:14 01:02:42:12
To abuse his women
and install his dictatorship.
/file 0469
/tc 01:02:56:06 01:03:01:18
What happened
to the house over there?
/file 0470
/tc 01:03:02:02 01:03:08:24
It was a community house but
also served as school.
/file 0471
/tc 01:03:10:05 01:03:17:21
They burnt it down in 1984.
Sendero Luminoso.
/file 0472
/tc 01:03:18:11 01:03:21:11
But why did Sendero kill people here?
/file 0473
/tc 01:03:21:24 01:03:27:01
That is a very good question.
Why did Sendero kill people here?
/file 0474
/tc 01:03:27:05 01:03:34:23
We got organised and decided
that we did not want to join their ranks.
/file 0475
/tc 01:03:35:09 01:03:39:13
So people here
organised against Sendero.
/file 0476
/tc 01:03:39:16 01:03:42:03
Let me tell you.
/file 0477
/tc 01:03:42:08 01:03:49:18
In 1984 I was 16 years old.
/file 0478
/tc 01:03:49:24 01:03:56:24
My mother told me to take
our sheep to pasture.
/file 0479
/tc 01:03:57:18 01:04:06:09
So I went with all the animals.
When I came back I couldn't find my mother.
/file 0480
/tc 01:04:08:23 01:04:14:18
I went over the river,
close to where we are now...
/file 0481
/tc 01:04:14:24 01:04:19:05
There I found my mother buried.
/file 0482
/tc 01:04:19:15 01:04:23:22
The earth had been dug up.
/file 0483
/tc 01:04:24:05 01:04:30:01
I found the handkerchief
she used when chewing coca.
/file 0484
/tc 01:04:30:09 01:04:35:22
It was bloody.
"What have they done to my mother!" I said
/file 0485
/tc 01:04:36:00 01:04:44:00
I started digging and found her.
They had not buried her deep.
/file 0486
/tc 01:04:44:03 01:04:51:06
They had slit her throat
and cut her here and there.
/file 0487
/tc 01:04:51:11 01:04:55:13
This part was totally mutilated.
/file 0488
/tc 01:04:55:18 01:05:01:12
They had slaughtered her like an animal.
I tried to lift her.
/file 0489
/tc 01:05:02:00 01:05:09:05
'Mother, please wake up! What have I done to you?
Have I ever disobeyed you?'
/file 0490
/tc 01:05:09:19 01:05:16:13
'Talk to me! If we are to die it should be together!'
I said and tried to lift her up.
/file 0491
/tc 01:05:16:16 01:05:21:16
But I couldn't hold her,
the throat was cut.
/file 0492
/tc 01:05:21:23 01:05:26:11
I couldn't leave my mother.
/file 0493
/tc 01:05:26:19 01:05:34:11
I took her away from there and went back.
'They have murdered my mother!' I said
/file 0494
/tc 01:05:34:14 01:05:38:14
'Who were they?' I asked.
/file 0495
/tc 01:05:38:20 01:05:43:08
'We don't know.
Even their cloths were foreign', they said.
/file 0496
/tc 01:06:07:18 01:06:16:05
Sendero appeared because of the discrimination.
Sendero Luminoso profited from this.
/file 0497
/tc 01:06:18:01 01:06:24:09
They destroyed the villages
and we the innocent suffered.
/file 0498
/tc 01:06:24:15 01:06:29:17
It is not my fault
that I am an orphan.
/file 0499
/tc 01:07:08:08 01:07:14:04
You got to know her through the photos.
/file 0500
/tc 01:07:15:06 01:07:22:17
What do you think
when visiting us here in Ayacucho?
/file 0501
/tc 01:07:22:22 01:07:31:09
-We never expected to meet some of Augusta's family again.
-Never!
/file 0502
/tc 01:07:42:08 01:07:51:20
It is so difficult.
I came to Peru to understand Augusta, but...
/file 0503
/tc 01:07:52:16 01:07:58:22
...also this country,
and all that has happened.
/file 0504
/tc 01:07:59:05 01:08:08:00
But every time I turn a stone
there is a new mystery.
/file 0505
/tc 01:08:08:18 01:08:15:24
And there is something
I do not understand.
/file 0506
/tc 01:08:19:04 01:08:26:02
Everyone says that Augusta
was a very simple person.
/file 0507
/tc 01:08:26:17 01:08:31:22
Logical, intelligent and beautiful.
/file 0508
/tc 01:08:32:04 01:08:39:05
But she joined this organization, that...
/file 0509
/tc 01:08:40:01 01:08:47:04
...committed very serious errors.
/file 0510
/tc 01:08:47:13 01:08:54:14
And I do not understand.
It is like she...
/file 0511
/tc 01:08:56:09 01:09:01:13
...had two personalities
/file 0512
/tc 01:09:01:22 01:09:09:24
One very soft...
and another very rigid.
/file 0513
/tc 01:09:10:20 01:09:17:05
With politics and all that.
/file 0514
/tc 01:09:49:11 01:09:56:10
I am afraid
to be linked to the family of Josefin.
/file 0515
/tc 01:09:58:14 01:10:05:08
Unfortunately we are in different positions.
Very different.
/file 0516
/tc 01:10:05:16 01:10:09:20
I have said before that it was not
my brother who started the war.
/file 0517
/tc 01:10:09:24 01:10:15:03
It was practically started by her family.
/file 0518
/tc 01:10:15:03 01:10:18:10
We are paying the price.
/file 0519
/tc 01:10:18:20 01:10:24:10
We have lost a family member.
Our pain is different from theirs.
/file 0520
/tc 01:10:25:05 01:10:28:05
I know she will understand.
/file 0521
/tc 01:10:28:09 01:10:34:10
But anyhow we have had
totally different lives.
/file 0522
/tc 01:10:35:05 01:10:40:15
I accepted this because
I wanted Claudio to be known.
/file 0523
/tc 01:10:40:20 01:10:46:10
Because often in a genocide...
/file 0524
/tc 01:10:47:10 01:10:53:00
...they brand the victims terrorists
even though most were not, like my brother.
/file 0525
/tc 01:10:53:10 01:10:58:00
And that said apart from his ideas
which I am proud of.
/file 0526
/tc 01:10:58:10 01:11:03:18
And one of his ideals
was to bring forward his family.
/file 0527
/tc 01:11:35:18 01:11:39:20
What happened to Claudio and Sendero?
/file 0528
/tc 01:11:40:08 01:11:46:03
Claudio left the village
before Sendero came here.
/file 0529
/tc 01:11:46:17 01:11:55:02
Claudio became politically aware
after seeing our father in the land occupations.
/file 0530
/tc 01:11:57:04 01:12:07:05
At the university he didn't participate
very actively, it seems.
/file 0531
/tc 01:12:10:08 01:12:15:16
Why?
Because people who entered the party...
/file 0532
/tc 01:12:16:02 01:12:24:18
...forgot their family, their future and everything else.
They surrendered their life to the struggle.
/file 0533
/tc 01:12:24:22 01:12:29:09
Claudio never went that far.
Why?
/file 0534
/tc 01:12:29:14 01:12:33:13
Because he was
more of a son, a brother.
/file 0535
/tc 01:12:33:16 01:12:39:18
'I want something better for my parents
and my siblings. I want to finish my studies.'
/file 0536
/tc 01:12:40:02 01:12:44:22
'I want my siblings to become something.'
He chose that path.
/file 0537
/tc 01:12:45:08 01:12:50:05
And left the other.
/file 0538
/tc 01:12:55:20 01:12:58:07
But it was too late.
/file 0539
/tc 01:13:01:11 01:13:07:12
Claudio was arrested and
brought to the Fronton prison.
/file 0540
/tc 01:13:12:22 01:13:19:09
On the island there were
those involved in the struggle.
/file 0541
/tc 01:13:19:13 01:13:23:09
-And you belonged to this group?
-Let's say so.
/file 0542
/tc 01:13:23:12 01:13:30:20
And those who had been involved involuntarily
because anyone was arrested those days.
/file 0543
/tc 01:13:30:24 01:13:37:20
Maybe he was innocent
as I suppose you believe.
/file 0544
/tc 01:13:37:24 01:13:44:11
But at that time the situation
and the movement was so strong...
/file 0545
/tc 01:13:44:15 01:13:47:24
...that people got involved
because of that feeling.
/file 0546
/tc 01:14:02:00 01:14:09:06
I remember the first time I visited the island.
The songs of the family members...
/file 0547
/tc 01:14:18:14 01:14:25:00
Sendero took control
of the prisons from inside.
/file 0548
/tc 01:14:26:18 01:14:32:24
The fighters of the Communist Party of Peru
welcome you...
/file 0549
/tc 01:14:33:06 01:14:36:21
...being temporary prisoners of war here.
/file 0550
/tc 01:14:37:00 01:14:42:11
Long live the struggle
of the family committees!
/file 0551
/tc 01:15:35:09 01:15:41:12
Abimael called the prisons
'The shining trenches of combat.'
/file 0552
/tc 01:15:42:00 01:15:49 :12
Giving your life for the struggle was
an importante part of the ideology of Sendero.
/file 0553
/tc 01:15:51:19 01:16:00:03
We are firmly commited to the armed struggle
because that is how we destroy the old order.
/file 0554
/tc 01:16:00:09 01:16:03:21
And create the new state;
the popular republic of new democracy.
/file 0555
/tc 01:16:04:09 01:16:10:19
President Gonzalo has developed
the guiding thoughts to the highest levels.
/file 0556
/tc 01:16:11:08 01:16:16:08
He is the fourth pillar of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
/file 0557
/tc 01:16:25:20 01:16:33:10
The war between Sendero and the army
also went on in the prisons.
/file 0558
/tc 01:16:36:08 01:16:42:11
Hundreds of prisoners were killed
without any chance to stand trial.
/file 0559
/tc 01:16:42:23 01:16:51:15
The family members of the prisoners
became helpless witnesses to the events.
/file 0560
/tc 01:16:55:13 01:16:58:11
As president of Peru
it is painful to...
/file 0561
/tc 01:16:59:16 01:17:07:24
Flor is convinced that president Garcia
gave the order to attack Fronton.
/file 0562
/tc 01:17:16:01 01:17:22:11
We had been told that the military
planned to attack the island.
/file 0563
/tc 01:17:22:24 01:17:30:17
So we were preparing
for a genocide.
/file 0564
/tc 01:17:31:02 01:17:34:10
A slaughter was coming.
/file 0565
/tc 01:17:35:20 01:17:44:18
When the mutiny started
you took three hostages from the guards.
/file 0566
/tc 01:17:45:05 01:17:49:13
If they didn't want to negotiate,
just kill us...
/file 0567
/tc 01:17:49:18 01:17:54:21
...then we had to act first
to face what was coming.
/file 0568
/tc 01:17:55:15 01:18:02:02
-So you took hostages.
-Our only chance was to take hostages.
/file 0569
/tc 01:18:10:14 01:18:19:05
When the marines attack
the prisoners in Fronton...
/file 0570
/tc 01:18:24:10 01:18:29:17
Most of them will never
see their family members again.
/file 0571
/tc 01:18:30:20 01:18:36:05
'Prison authority -
killers of political prisoners!'
/file 0572
/tc 01:18:41:04 01:18:49:03
Ever since the massacre Flor and her family
fight for the restitution of Claudio.
/file 0573
/tc 01:18:50:00 01:18:53:07
The survivors say...
/file 0574
/tc 01:18:53:15 01:18:59:20
...that people were separated after
having been brought out and then taken aside.
/file 0575
/tc 01:19:00:05 01:19:03:09
And there they
are shot.
/file 0576
/tc 01:19:03:13 01:19:10:12
Alan Garcia denies knowing anything.
Who then gave the order to the marines?
/file 0577
/tc 01:19:10:16 01:19:14:21
Was he not the supreme chief
of the armed forces?
/file 0578
/tc 01:19:15:02 01:19:20:06
We are convinced that the simultaneous attack
on the three prisons is inconceivable...
/file 0579
/tc 01:19:20:14 01:19:24:09
...without an order from high up.
And Alan Garcia was in command.
/file 0580
/tc 01:19:24:16 01:19:31:09
I have read documentation
and there is strong evidence that he gave the order.
/file 0581
/tc 01:20:08:16 01:20:11:04
I saw it myself.
/file 0582
/tc 01:20:11:08 01:20:16:09
I have never
seen anything as cruel as that.
/file 0583
/tc 01:20:16:13 01:20:20:05
To me that was very cruel.
/file 0584
/tc 01:20:20:15 01:20:27:08
You can say a lot about us there
but the great majority were never tried.
/file 0585
/tc 01:20:27:19 01:20:33:01
And no one can be
found guilty without a verdict.
/file 0586
/tc 01:20:33:07 01:20:38:07
The drama is not only about Claudio
but of many people there.
/file 0587
/tc 01:20:38:14 01:20:44:17
I was there
with a person I saw die...
/file 0588
/tc 01:20:45:00 01:20:52:00
He was hit by a bazooka
and disappeared in front of my eyes.
/file 0589
/tc 01:20:52:03 01:20:59:20
-Disappeared?
-Disappeared. A bazooka shell shreds you in pieces.
/file 0590
/tc 01:21:09:03 01:21:16:17
-So everyone in his group died?
-Yes, everyone.
/file 0591
/tc 01:21:30:10 01:21:36:00
We are not alone,
but I always ask why us?
/file 0592
/tc 01:21:36:04 01:21:38:23
Why Claudio?
/file 0593
/tc 01:21:39:02 01:21:43:12
Alan Garcia personally
directed that massacre.
/file 0594
/tc 01:21:43:17 01:21:49:14
Apart from Alan Garcia beeing a murderer
who ordered the killing of the prisoners...
/file 0595
/tc 01:21:50:03 01:21:58:06
...somebody on the other side is also guilty.
-The order for the mutiny came from above.
/file 0596
/tc 01:21:58:10 01:22:03:20
-From above...from Abimael.
-Abimael Guzman. He gave the order.
/file 0597
/tc 01:22:31:19 01:22:37:17
Register.
Disappeared.
/file 0598
/tc 01:22:37:21 01:22:45:03
The lawyer on the case of Claudio
finally discovers that he still...
/file 0599
/tc 01:22:45:21 01:22:49:19
...decades after his death
has a search warrant.
/file 0600
/tc 01:22:50:02 01:22:54:13
To the Peruvian state
he is still fugitive.
/file 0601
/tc 01:22:54:16 01:23:01:08
...and since there is no justice...
they have just continued and continued...
/file 0602
/tc 01:23:02:01 01:23:06:06
And what have they found against your brother?
A poem.
/file 0603
/tc 01:23:06:23 01:23:14:01
That he admits to have written.
'Yes, I wrote that poem, because I think like that.'
/file 0604
/tc 01:23:14:08 01:23:21:07
'I have read in the papers
about the struggle of persons in Sendero.'
/file 0605
/tc 01:23:21:12 01:23:26:03
'And I think they
want to create a just world.'
/file 0606
/tc 01:23:26:07 01:23:29:17
His THOUGHTS.
/file 0607
/tc 01:23:29:20 01:23:37:13
'Is it true that you wrote the poem:
"Song to a fighter" ? about the soldier-peasant...'
/file 0608
/tc 01:23:37:16 01:23:42:17
'...his weapon and the connection
to the communist party of Peru?'
/file 0609
/tc 01:23:43:07 01:23:47:03
'Yes, it's true that I wrote that poem.'
/file 0610
/tc 01:23:47:08 01:23:52:22
'I do not and have not belonged to the party
but I have sympathized.'
/file 0611
/tc 01:23:53:03 01:23:57:12
Yes,
And his sympathy was expressed in the poem.
/file 0612
/tc 01:23:57:18 01:24:01:12
We don't have to agree with him.
/file 0613
/tc 01:24:01:18 01:24:08:04
But that does not lead to a prison sentence.
Much less the death penalty that he received.
/file 0614
/tc 01:24:08:11 01:24:18:17
We believe that the victims of Fronton
must be accepted as victims.
/file 0615
/tc 01:24:18:24 01:24:22:06
Having belonged
to Sendero or not.
/file 0616
/tc 01:24:22:12 01:24:26:23
If they had belonged to Sendero Luminoso
they should be punished by the state.
/file 0617
/tc 01:24:27:10 01:24:29:23
But not with capital penalty.
/file 0618
/tc 01:24:30:04 01:24:35:02
In Claudio's case I am convinced
that a court would have...
/file 0619
/tc 01:24:35:08 01:24:39:20
...set him free.
/file 0620
/tc 01:24:55:10 01:25:02:05
-What do you think happened to Augusta?
-A video was published...
/file 0621
/tc 01:25:02:19 01:25:14:00
They confiscated a video from Sendero
where she appears in a coffin.
/file 0622
/tc 01:25:16:22 01:25:25:12
At some point they had arrived at
insoluble political contradictions.
/file 0623
/tc 01:25:25:16 01:25:28:18
Despite being married.
/file 0624
/tc 01:25:29:10 01:25:33:23
She believed that the people's war
should be fought in the countryside.
/file 0625
/tc 01:25:34:08 01:25:39:24
But they wanted it to take place in the city.
And according to the press...
/file 0626
/tc 01:25:40:04 01:25:46:15
...Abimael's people
tried to kill her.
/file 0627
/tc 01:25:52:11 01:26:01:19
Abimael directed the revolt from his hiding in Lima.
He ordered the war to the capital.
/file 0628
/tc 01:26:20:24 01:26:26:15
Peru was pushed close to
catastrophy by violence and economical ruin.
/file 0629
/tc 01:26:27:24 01:26:32:12
Poverty steadily became worse.
/file 0630
/tc 01:26:33:14 01:26:39:02
In the last democratic election
the winner was Alberto Fujimori.
/file 0631
/tc 01:26:42:09 01:26:46:19
Soon he dissolved the parliament
and assumed dictatorial power.
/file 0632
/tc 01:26:56:11 01:27:03:09
The terror of the death patrols of the state
and Sendero brought Peru towards the abyss.
/file 0633
/tc 01:27:09:23 01:27:17:09
Augusta was already dead
and I was four years old.
/file 0634
/tc 01:27:18:06 01:27:25:08
At my daycare in Sweden I painted
the Peruvian flag all in red.
/file 0635
/tc 01:27:47:05 01:27:53:04
To me there was something
filthy between them.
/file 0636
/tc 01:27:53:22 01:28:01:20
Within the power there are many factors.
Who can do what and be where, etc.
/file 0637
/tc 01:28:02:06 01:28:08:07
You eliminate the enemy
and step into his place.
/file 0638
/tc 01:28:08:18 01:28:14:15
Someone arranged
the murder of Augusta.
/file 0639
/tc 01:28:14:22 01:28:17:24
They murdered her.
/file 0640
/tc 01:28:20:07 01:28:26:15
They took her power
because she had power over Abimael.
/file 0641
/tc 01:28:26:24 01:28:34:08
She had a lot of power
and someone at the top didn't like it.
/file 0642
/tc 01:28:34:11 01:28:40:07
I have the impression
that it was the one he later married.
/file 0643
/tc 01:28:49:17 01:28:58:16
I think she was ill. He knew it and
unless she went abroad for treatment...
/file 0644
/tc 01:28:59:08 01:29:02:10
...she was going to die.
/file 0645
/tc 01:29:02:14 01:29:06:14
Augusta also knew.
/file 0646
/tc 01:29:07:05 01:29:14:13
If you know that you will die
without treatment...and that you may be cured.
/file 0647
/tc 01:29:15:17 01:29:22:01
Then you make a decision about your life.
And what decision did Augusta make?
/file 0648
/tc 01:29:22:10 01:29:24:21
To die.
/file 0649
/tc 01:29:25:05 01:29:29:18
I am sure that
she was also influenced by...
/file 0650
/tc 01:29:30:00 01:29:37:22
..being part of a triangle that
would not end well for her.
/file 0651
/tc 01:29:44:08 01:29:51:14
1992- four years after the death of Augusta,
Abimael and the heads of Sendero were arrested.
/file 0652
/tc 01:29:53:04 01:30:01:02
Elena Iparraguirre had already
assumed the role of Augusta by the side of Abimael.
/file 0653
/tc 01:30:01:20 01:30:05:11
If you die,
this will remain.
/file 0654
/tc 01:30:05:18 01:30:13:03
It can never be wiped out.
And as we know history will recognize it.
/file 0655
/tc 01:30:15:01 01:30:20:07
Even if we are persecuted and executed.
/file 0656
/tc 01:30:29:08 01:30:37:05
The leaders of Sendero were arrested
and exhibited to the world press.
/file 0657
/tc 01:30:38:18 01:30:46:20
Abimael Guzman, president of the
central committee of Sendero Luminoso...
/file 0658
/tc 01:30:47:07 01:30:51:00
Marital status:
widow.
/file 0659
/tc 01:30:51:06 01:30:57:16
On the 30th of September 1965, in Ayacucho
married to Augusta La Torre Carrasco...
/file 0660
/tc 01:30:57:24 01:31:01:11
...who died in 1988.
/file 0661
/tc 01:31:01:17 01:31:08:03
It is just a temporary setback
on the long road.
/file 0662
/tc 01:31:08:10 01:31:14:19
We will triumph!
You will see!
/file 0663
/tc 01:31:22:17 01:31:27:21
What do you feel for Abimael Guzman?
/file 0664
/tc 01:31:29:19 01:31:35:13
Sometimes I hate him.
/file 0665
/tc 01:31:36:15 01:31:39:21
I am sure...
/file 0666
/tc 01:31:40:00 01:31:44:05
...that he knows
what happened to Augusta.
/file 0667
/tc 01:31:44:13 01:31:50:18
Everyone lives their tragedy
in their own way.
/file 0668
/tc 01:31:51:23 01:31:56:10
To find peace and the...
/file 0669
/tc 01:31:56:13 01:32:02:02
...tranquillity you are missing
you must find out...
/file 0670
/tc 01:32:02:05 01:32:08:21
...what happened, why
and above all; where is he?
/file 0671
/tc 01:33:10:20 01:33:16:19
Mr Samuel, as you know the case of
Claudio Gonzales Barbaran has been closed.
/file 0672
/tc 01:33:16:23 01:33:22:01
The result was satisfactory...
/file 0673
/tc 01:33:22:08 01:33:26:16
...giving moral support to
a victim of the violence.
/file 0674
/tc 01:33:27:03 01:33:36:06
Dignifying and including
Claudio in the victims register...
/file 0675
/tc 01:33:36:08 01:33:43:19
...with the state recognizing
him as a victim of the violence.
/file 0676
/tc 01:33:44:21 01:33:52:12
The only consolation
is that my son was innocent.
/file 0677
/tc 01:33:53:04 01:33:58:17
And in his innocence they killed him.
/file 0678
/tc 01:33:59:02 01:34:05:02
Those responsible
should be sentenced a thousand times.
/file 0679
/tc 01:34:08:02 01:34:12:12
But it would be better...
/file 0680
/tc 01:34:13:00 01:34:17:13
...that the one responsible paid the price...
/file 0681
/tc 01:34:17:19 01:34:24:04
....the one who in that moment
was the supreme commander of the armed forces.
/file 0682
/tc 01:34:24:08 01:34:30:22
Everyone knows
but they can not prosecute this person.
/file 0683
/tc 01:34:31:10 01:34:38:21
I can only trust that the divine justice
sooner or later will make this person pay.
/file 0684
/tc 01:34:38:24 01:34:43:06
In the hardest way possible.
/file 0685
/tc 01:35:02:03 01:35:09:11
I have been harsh,
maybe because of my experiences.
/file 0686
/tc 01:35:09:18 01:35:16:24
You came here to know the truth...
about what really happened.
/file 0687
/tc 01:35:19:12 01:35:28:07
It is brave of you to seek the true story
And not be carried away by the myths.
/file 0688
/tc 01:35:29:03 01:35:35:00
The made-up stories they told.
/file 0689
/tc 01:35:35:21 01:35:40:05
It is important for me to be here.
/file 0690
/tc 01:35:40:12 01:35:47:09
I have discovered a lot about Peru,
the war and the peasants in the countryside.
/file 0691
/tc 01:35:49:01 01:35:55:18
And it is hard to realize
that Augusta took part in all this.
/file 0692
/tc 01:35:57:10 01:36:02:19
But it is good for you to know.
It is good.
/file 0693
/tc 01:36:06:19 01:36:14:18
Don't you feel more free without blindfolds.
Now that you know the truth?
/file 0694
/tc 01:36:14:22 01:36:18:16
-Don't you feel freer?
-Yes, of course.
/file 0695
/tc 01:36:19:02 01:36:25:08
And freedom has a price.
/file 0696
/tc 01:36:26:00 01:36:34:04
You are free because you decided to be.
But your family...
/file 0697
/tc 01:36:37:00 01:36:40:08
But they are still your family...
/file 0698
/tc 01:37:01:24 01:37:05:05
Dad.
/file 0699
/tc 01:37:06:01 01:37:12:07
I was so afraid to make this journey.
/file 0700
/tc 01:37:14:04 01:37:18:21
But I am not afraid
anymore.
/file 0701
/tc 01:37:20:13 01:37:26:19
The fairy-tale you told me
was not true.
/file 0702
/tc 01:37:32:05 01:37:39:00
But what I found was
so much more valuable.
/file 0703
/tc 01:37:40:19 01:37:45:21
I have met terrible cruelty.
/file 0704
/tc 01:37:46:11 01:37:51:10
But also the most profound tenderness.
/file 0705
/tc 01:38:00:09 01:38:04:02
'He looked at the sky and smiled.'
/file 0706
/tc 01:38:05:02 01:38:11:02
'Remembering how he had said good-bye
crying as never before.'
/file 0707
/tc 01:38:12:14 01:38:20:19
'It was five, six years since he left
his beloved village, his land.'
/file 0708
/tc 01:38:26:01 01:38:32:19
'Now he was back,
and he thought it was forever.'