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Peru - Atrocities Liane Hansen talks with reporter Anne Moncrief in Ayacucho, Peru, where the Truth and Reconciliation commission has just concluded four days of hearings into the country's 20-year civil conflict. The conflict caught farmers and townspeople in the middle of fighting between the Shining Path leftist guerillas and government forces. Both sides took a terrible toll on civilian life, as survivors recounted to the commission.

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Liane Hansen talks with reporter Anne Moncrief in Ayacucho, Peru, where the Truth and Reconciliation commission has just concluded four days of hearings into the country's 20-year civil conflict. The conflict caught farmers and townspeople in the middle of fighting between the Shining Path leftist guerillas and government forces. Both sides took a terrible toll on civilian life, as survivors recounted to the commission.