Giant scarf knitted for Peru's missing

[Judi Lynn]

Giant scarf knitted for Peru's missing
Bayly Turner
December 2, 2010 - 4:09AM

clutch of women knitting together is a familiar, friendly sight in the Peruvian highlands, a region prized for its wool where traditional, home-knitted outfits are part of everyday clothing.

But the women in Ayacucho share more than a love of knitting. They are the bereaved mothers, sisters and widows of some of the tens of thousands of men who went missing in what they call "The War".

Each one is working on a panel roughly the size of an A4 sheet of paper to remember their "disappeared" loved ones. The panels are then pieced together in an enormous scarf, a work in progress that already measures 350-metres (yards) long and went on show in Lima for the first time last week.

Advertisement: Story continues below The highland region of Ayacucho was the centre of the bloodiest conflict in Peruvian history -- the brutal internecine violence between Maoist Shining Path rebels and state security forces in the 1980s and 90s.

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