Children were among the 39 slaves rescued from a 'troop-making' Shining Path rebel camp in Peru, Daily Mail repoeted.
Authorities rescued 26 children, plus women and elderly Peruvians some of whom were kidnapped many decades ago from the camp.
While women were impregnated in captivity, the children were forced to grow coca, from which cocaine can be made, until they were old enough for active duty.
The slaves were rescued from the Maoist Shining Path rebel camp in the so-called VRAEM area in the largely untouched jungle, which serves as a home base for the remnant forces of the insurgency.
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Shining Path is a guerrilla group which posed a major challenge to the Peruvian state in the 1980s and 1990s. It was largely defeated in the 1990s.
The Peruvian government's Deputy Defence Minister, Ivan Vega, told Canal N television the children were aged between one and 14 years old.He said it was a 'Shining Path troop-making camp' led by the group's self-proclaimed leader Jose Quispe Palomino.
The government accuses Shining Path of working with drug traffickers to raise money.
Shining Path is a guerrilla group which posed a major challenge to the Peruvian state in the 1980s and 1990s. It was largely defeated in the 1990s.