Story of the ten tombs
Ten tombstones on the top of a mountain, surrounded by banana
trees and coffee plants. The quietness is disturbed by an
occasion-al group of cattle wandering through. Pancasán
is very close to the wild country, and its people still think
of it as wilderness and of themselves as pioneers. Many here
still take justice into their own hands, and Pancasán’s
history is therefore full of outlaws, rebels and revolutionaries
seeking holes to hide in, friends to sustain them, and recruits
for their causes. This is a monument in memory of ten Sandinista
guerilla fighters from the area. They were killed in one of
the massacres that have marked the lives of many families
of the region during a century of wars. One of the graves
belongs to Antonio Pérez Zamora’s father. The
only memory Antonio has of his father is a cattle iron for
branding the cows. |
