On February 2, 1983, the Peruvian government appointed the Uchuraccay Events Investigation Commission, chaired by writer Mario Vargas Llosa. This commission was created to investigate the massacre of eight journalists that occurred on January 26, 1983 in the community of Uchuraccay, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. According to the CVR report, …
Two weeks after his arbitrary arrest on July 27, 1984, Jesús Oropeza was murdered by his Civil Guard captors. Seven members of the police were subsequently prosecuted by the judiciary. This case exemplifies state violence against social leaders during the internal armed conflict.
Leonor Zamora, mayor of Ayacucho, was arrested by court order on charges of misappropriation of funds and against the duties of office. The detention was ordered by a judge. This event occurred during the month of July 1985, in the context of the transition from the government of Fernando Belaunde …
In March 1988, the Peruvian Congress presented the report of the investigative commission on the case of the prisons. Senator Rolando Ames Cobián presented a detailed report on the events that took place in three prisons in June 1986, where there was a mass murder of inmates. The report maintains …
Senator Rolando Ames Cobián presents a detailed report on the events that took place in three prisons in June 1986. In his report, he argues that the mass murder of inmates should not go unpunished and requests the intervention of the Judiciary to punish those found guilty. This report was …
President Alan Garcia Perez demands the immediate punishment of those responsible for the death of 300 inmates accused of terrorism. This statement comes in the context of the report presented in March 1988 by Senator Rolando Ames Cobián on the events that took place in three prisons in June 1986. …
Government workers went on strike in several sectors including Social Security, the Judicial Branch, the Attorney General's Office and the Ministry of Transportation. In the private sector, miners carried out staggered strikes. The workers of the country's potable water services and the public workers grouped in the CITE also went …
Members of DIRCOTE captured Lucero Cumpa Miranda, MRTA leader, in the Lima district of Magdalena del Mar. This was her second capture, as she had previously been rescued on March 11 by a violent action of MRTA while she was being transferred to the Judicial Power. The rescue of Cumpa …
On March 11, 1991, an MRTA commando carried out one of the most impressive and violent actions in Lima to rescue Lucero Cumpa Miranda. The MRTA leader was being transferred to the Judicial Power along with Nelly Evans Risco, a member of the PCP-SL, in a truck belonging to the …
Viviano Hilario Mancha, father and grandfather of the disappeared, found the half-buried body of his grandson Héctor Hilario at the entrance of the 'Misteriosa' mine, along with other bodies that he could not recognize. He reported the discovery the next day to the Huancavelica Provincial Prosecutor's Office and to the …
A Supreme Vocal dismissed the complaint filed by the Attorney General against former President Alan Garcia Perez. This decision came after in October 1991 the Chamber of Deputies had approved to constitutionally accuse Garcia Perez for alleged charges of illicit enrichment and against public faith, with 95 votes in favor, …
Towards the end of April 1992, the first ministerial crisis of the Emergency and National Reconstruction Government installed after the self-coup of April 5 took place. Chancellor Augusto Blacker Miller resigned due to his confrontation with Minister of Economy Carlos Boloña Behr. This resignation marked a moment of internal tension …
On April 5, 1992, President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, with the support of the forces of law and order, announced the dissolution of the National Parliament and the total reorganization of the Judiciary. As part of this coup d'état, the president of the Senate, Felipe Osterling Parodi, and the president of …
On April 5, 1992, President Alberto Fujimori, with the support of the Armed Forces and the police, dissolved the Congress of the Republic, intervened in the Judicial Power and installed an unconstitutional regime known as the 'Government of Emergency and National Reconstruction'. When the military coup perpetrators closed the Congress, …
On April 5, 1992, at 10:30 p.m., the Constitutional President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, with the support of the police, announces the dissolution of the National Parliament and the total reorganization of the Judicial Power, the National Council of the Magistracy (CNM), the Court of Constitutional Guarantees and the Public Prosecutor's …
The Executive headed by Fujimori ruled by himself and before himself, like absolute monarchs, for 9 months, from April 1992 to January 1993. Having dissolved the Legislative Power and destroyed the autonomy of the Judicial Power, he left the Constitution without effect and produced new legislation by 'decree-laws'. This is …
On April 6, 1992, one day after the coup d'état perpetrated by Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, the new cabinet was sworn in under the presidency of Oscar de la Puente Raygada. That same day, in the first session of the ministerial cabinet, the new president of the Council of Ministers read …
On April 6, 1992, one day after the self-coup d'état perpetrated by President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, the new ministerial cabinet was sworn in under the presidency of Oscar de la Puente Raygada. This cabinet assumes functions within the framework of the so-called "Emergency and National Reconstruction Government", after the dissolution …
On April 9, 1992, around 100 representatives, including deputies and senators of the dissolved Congress, declared the Presidency of the Republic vacant due to the "moral incapacity of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori". This declaration took place four days after the self-coup of April 5, when Fujimori dissolved the National Parliament and …
The Emergency and National Reconstruction Government presents its timetable for the full reestablishment of the constitutional and democratic order of the country. This presentation takes place in the context of the coup d'état of April 5, 1992, when President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori dissolved the Congress and reorganized the Judiciary. On …
On April 21, 1992, the ad hoc commission of the Organization of American States (OAS) arrived in Lima and began interviews with representatives of the different political forces. This commission was sent after the meeting of OAS foreign ministers in Washington on April 13, where it was decided to "deplore" …
Decree Law No. 25446 was enacted, dismissing 133 magistrates of the Judicial Districts of Lima and Callao, including 33 Justices of the Superior Courts of Lima, 8 of Callao, 6 Superior Prosecutors of Lima, 47 Judges of Lima, 29 of Callao and 10 Juvenile Judges of Lima. It also ordered …
On May 2, 1992, the Colina detachment kidnapped and murdered 9 peasants from Santa. The victims were detained and then executed or disappeared. The victims' relatives filed Habeas Corpus appeals that were declared inadmissible by the Judicial Power. The bodies were buried clandestinely using lime to make it difficult to …
In July 1992, the government of Alberto Fujimori enacted a new Defense System Law that granted broad powers to the military in the counter-subversive struggle. This legislation was part of a series of measures adopted after the self-coup of April 5, 1992, when Fujimori dissolved Congress and intervened in the …
The government of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori called for elections for a Constituent Congress, achieving a pro-government majority in the process. This call took place in the context of the self-coup of April 5, 1992, when Fujimori dissolved the National Congress and reorganized the Judicial Power. The aim of the Constituent …
The members of the military prosecuted for the murder of Hugo Bustíos filed a plea of res judicata in the common jurisdiction, which was declared founded by the Judicial Power, thus archiving the process. This decision exemplifies how the military justice system acted to guarantee impunity for members of the …
On June 29, 1995, in reaction to Judge Saquicuray's decision, Congress passed Law 26492, known as the 'Barrios Altos Law', without public debate. This law 'interpreted' that the amnesty was of obligatory application by the Judicial Power and could not be reviewed in the courts, expressly prohibiting judges from exercising …
The PCP-SL attacked the premises of the Superior Court of Apurimac in the city of Abancay. This attack against an institution of the Judicial Power is evidence of the PCP-SL's strategy of attacking symbols of the State.
On March 24, 2001, in compliance with the sentence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the 1st Corporate Criminal Court annulled the resolution to file the Barrios Altos case issued in 1995 by the 11th Criminal Court of the Superior Court of Lima. It was ordered that the 16th …
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