A Peruvian military operation has secured the release of more than a dozen people who were kidnapped by the Shining Path rebel group up to 25 years ago.
After being used as slaves in remote mountain communities, the 13 adults and 26 children were evacuated by helicopters, an army spokesman said.
Some had grown so accustomed to their lives with the Marxist group that they were initially reluctant to be rescued, said Peru’s vice minister of defence, Ivan Vega.
The eldest captive was a 70-year-old women who was kidnapped from a convent in Puerto Ocopa decades ago. The youngest was one year old.
The army said many of the children were conceived when the kidnap victims were raped. Others were reportedly abducted from villages, indoctrinated and told they had to work in “production camps” to supply the revolutionary guerrilla group.
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