Irene McCormack
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Irene McCormack RSJ (21 August 1938 – 21 May 1991), an Australian nun, was a member of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart who worked as a missionary in Peru. She was executed in Peru in 1991 by members of Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), a Maoist rebel terrorist organisation.
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Irene McCormack
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Irene McCormack
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Irene McCormack
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1991-05-21
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1938-08-21
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Caritas Peru
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1938-08-21
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Portrait of Sr Irene McCormack RSJ
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1991-05-21
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Religious sister; teacher; missionary
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It was an awful, frightening death. She'd been pottering in her garden in the hill-top Peruvian village of Huasahuasi when two armed women broke into the convent. Sister Irene McCormack was alone, trapped upstairs with no escape route. It was a situation for which she would have been usually prepared, and her course of action would have been to "head out along the river and keep going". Anne Henderson, however, has said that it did not happen like this. She describes in detail the last hours of McCormack's life in May 1991.
From the convent, McCormack was taken to the town square where 300 people had gathered. Earlier, the Shining Path terrorists had stormed the village, looted homes and terrorised the townspeople. Now, in the glare of spotlights, McCormack and four men were tried in a "kangaroo court" and sentenced to death.
Amid cries of "She's Australian, not a Yankee" and "Why kill these innocent people?", McCormack and the others were made to lie on the ground. The head terrorist gave the order and a young woman began shooting them one by one.
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Irene McCormack RSJ (21 August 1938 – 21 May 1991), an Australian nun, was a member of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart who worked as a missionary in Peru. She was executed in Peru in 1991 by members of Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), a Maoist rebel terrorist organisation.
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Murder by a single gunshot to the back of her head by members of Sendero Luminoso
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1938
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1991