Sunday, June 6, 2021

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DAY: LOCAL SELF-DEFENSE PERUVIAN MILITIA AGAINST THE SHINING PATH, April 12, 1990

 After the Sendero Luminoso's (Shining Path) attacks in Chuppac, Department of Ayacucho, which occurred on April 8, 1990, the people of that community set up peasant patrols with the support of the Peruvian Army. Between 1980 and 2000, the armed conflict in Peru claimed the lives of some 70,000 people making it the bloodiest war in Peruvian history since the European colonization. 

-Photo by Jorge Torres. Yuyanapaq, Para recordar. Relato visual del conflicto armado interno en el Perú. https://issuu.com/kath.../docs/yuyaexhibitbook_singles_part1

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THE EIGHT-NATION ALLIANCE’S CAPTURE OF THE TAKU FORTS, June 16-17, 1900

During the Boxer Rebellion, an Eight-Nation gunboat squadron bombarded the Chinese forts situated at the mouth of the Hai (Peiho) river. ...