"For me, the '80s were a sickness of the Path," Barboza Vargas told AFP, wearing a colorful crown of parrot feathers and hedgehog quills. "We are convinced that this (conflict) has betrayed our Ashaninka people throughout the Amazon enough," the 62-year-old Barboza Vargas said of his people. They were the main Amazonian indigenous victims of the Shining Path during the Peruvian civil war, from 1980 to 2000. According to testimonies gathered by the CVR in 2003, Shining Path guerillas kidnapped Ashaninka people, forcing them to work as servants and farm hands. He said Shining Path stabbed his mother Victoria and his siblings Sonia, Alicia, Norma and Simon.
