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PERU: Courts Move Closer to Clarifying Accomarca Massacre

"They entered the village and called all the peasants together, tortured them to make them say who were terrorists, and killed them because they didn't talk," testified former soldier José Contreras, one of those involved in the 1985 killing of 69 people in the southern Peruvian village of Accomarca. More than two decades after the massacre, Contreras and other soldiers have begun to be arrested and tried for killing 30 women, 23 children and 16 men in the highlands village of Accomarca, under the command of then lieutenant Telmo Hurtado. (IPS - click here to read complete article by Ángel Páez)


Peru on alert

For the past two weeks, as many as 12,000 indigenous Peruvians from 65 tribes, armed with weapons such as bows and arrows, squared off with police in protest of two new laws. The "laws of the jungle," as they are not so affectionately called, were passed with the intention of promoting development in poor tribal areas by allowing an indigenous community to approve the sale of tribal lands by simple majority vote. (ISN - click here to read complete article by Nathaniel Foote)


CompTIA Hosts SME Innovation Seminar at 2008 APEC Ministerial in Peru

CompTIA, in cooperation with the International Trade Administration, hosted a seminar for small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Ministerial in Chiclayo, Peru, today. The seminar, representing broad views on how to nurture and boost SME innovation through technology, aims to provide APECs 21 economies with a roadmap toward greater prosperity in our increasingly ICT-connected, global economy. (Market Watch - click here to read complete article)


Peru: Young lives through the lens

"We can show how we suffered during the earthquake and how we are building new lives," says 13-year-old Ernesto Tayasco, one of 16 students at a school in Peru's Chincha province who have taken part in a creative psychosocial project run by the Red Cross. Ernesto and his classmates from the Colegio Mariscal Andres Aurelio in Chincha were given ten disposable cameras each, and asked to capture how their lives changed when an earthquake hit the province on 15 August 2007. (Relief Web - click here to read complete article by Winnie Romeril)


HPU Director Of Nonprofit Management Takes Part In Service Mission In Peru

David F. Walker, associate professor and director of the nonprofit management program at High Point University, took quite an adventure this summer - he traveled to Peru for two weeks as part of a service mission. Walker met with Conrado Olivera Alcocer, the executive director of Uniendo Manos Contra la Pobreza, a nongovernmental organization based in Lima, Peru, that is working to alleviate poverty in many areas of the country. (HPU - click here to read complete article)