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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dan Collyns in Lima

‘It was a massacre’: fury and grief amid Peru’s worst political violence in years

Lisbeth Candia wept uncontrollably as she waited in Cusco’s central morgue to recover the body of her brother Remo, the latest protester to be killed by Peruvian security forces as the country experiences its worst political violence in decades.

“Let there be no more deaths, let his be the last,” she said between sobs. “We don’t want his death to have been in vain,” she told the Guardian by phone.

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