Amnesty International (AI) sent letters to President Fernando Belaúnde Terry pointing out that human rights violations and excesses were being committed in the anti-subversive struggle. The president rejected the letters on August 18, 1983, calling the institution 'communist' and declaring that the letters would go 'directly to the trash can'. …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry publicly rejected the letters sent by Amnesty International (AI) that pointed out that in the anti-subversive struggle, excesses and human rights violations were being committed. Belaunde Terry not only described this institution as 'communist', but also declared that these letters would go 'directly to the trash …
On March 1, 1984, Hugo Bustíos was kidnapped by a group of Navy infantrymen who violently entered his home and kept him arbitrarily detained in the barracks in Huanta for 34 days, where he was tortured. Due to the protest of national journalists and Amnesty International, he regained his freedom …
On January 22, 1985, Amnesty International distributed a communiqué in London stating that more than 1,000 people had disappeared in the last two years in Peru's declared emergency zone. The report added that hundreds of others were killed in detention, often after being tortured. The international organization held the PCP-SL …
Amnesty International (AI) filed a formal complaint about the situation of forced disappearances in Peru. The international human rights organization stated that more than a thousand people had disappeared in the emergency zone. In addition, they denounced that hundreds of people were killed and tortured by the forces of law …
The UN Working Commission on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances visited Lima in the context of serious allegations of human rights violations in Peru's emergency zones. During this visit, human rights organizations filed complaints with the international commission. This visit came at a critical moment, a few months before Amnesty International …
On July 16, 1985, the Working Commission on Involuntary Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights arrived in Lima. This visit took place in a context where Amnesty International had distributed a communiqué in January of that year stating that more than a thousand people had disappeared …
Amnesty International published a report dedicated to disappearances, murders and torture in Peru. The report provoked an angry and undiplomatic protest from the Peruvian Foreign Ministry. This international document highlighted the grave human rights situation in the country during the internal armed conflict. The Peruvian government's reaction reflected the existing …
On the morning of April 15, 1994, Carlos Lavalle, secretary of economy of the Raucana board of directors and boxer, was assassinated near one of the water wells. Two young men shot him and when he was wounded on the ground they put dynamite on him, which exploded. Lavalle was …
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