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DIRCOTE Museum

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DIRCOTE Museum

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DIRCOTE Museum (Museo de la DIRCOTE) is a museum located on the premises of the National Directorate against Terrorism (DIRCOTE) on Spain Avenue in the historic centre of Lima, managed by the National Police of Peru and which exhibits objects seized from the Shining Path and Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) terrorist groups during the internal armed conflict that devastated Peru during the 1980s and 1990s.

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