The Minister of the Interior, Luis Pércovich Roca, publicly stated that the government had not considered it convenient to implement a state of siege in the country. This statement came after an Official Communiqué was published on July 6 in which the President of the Republic Fernando Belaunde Terry and …
Around August 16, 1984, members of the Navy, who were stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, transferred fifty people who were detained there to the town of Pucayacu. On August 22 a mass grave was found in Pucayacu with fifty unrecognizable corpses, as they had apparently been burned with …
On August 22, 1984, a mass grave was found in Pucayacu with fifty unrecognizable corpses, as they had apparently been burned with acid. Around August 16, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of …
On August 24, 1984, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces issued an official communiqué about the discovery of a mass grave in Pucayacu. The communiqué suggested that the bodies found in the grave were those of members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed in confrontations with the Armed Forces. Two …
On July 7, 1985, mass graves were found in the community of Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. Around August 16, 1984, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of Pucayacu. On August 22, 1984, …
On August 4, 1985, the military murdered and buried seven civilians in mass graves in Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. These people had previously been detained in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, where members of the Navy were stationed. Around August 16, approximately fifty people detained in that place were …
On June 16, 1986, the XVIII Conference of the Socialist International Women began in Lima. This international event took place in a context of high political and social tension in Peru, just two days before the riot in the prisons of Lima and Callao (June 18). The conference took place …
The commission investigating the case of the prisons presents its report, signed by its six members. The report points out the President of the Republic, the Alva Castro ministerial cabinet and the Joint Command of the Armed Forces as those politically responsible for the massacre of the prisons that took …
On December 1, 1987, the commission investigating the case of the prisons presented its report, signed by six members, pointing out the President of the Republic, the Alva Castro ministerial cabinet and the Joint Command of the Armed Forces as politically responsible for the massacre of the prisons that took …
The Board of Directors of the Congress reported on two reports issued by the Commission of Inquiry into the events of the prisons that occurred in June 1986. Two reports were presented: a majority report with seven signatures and a minority report with six signatures. The majority report pointed out …
The president of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, General EP Artemio Palomino Toledo, publicly stated that his institution was pleased that the Minister of Defense, General EP (r) Julio Velásquez Giacarini, was a soldier. In this statement, General Palomino expressed his solidarity and collaboration with the new Minister …
The president of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos, expressed to the government his public support for the pacification strategy embodied in the legislative decrees issued under the powers conferred by Congress. This support took place in a context of confrontation between the Executive …
Alberto Fujimori Fujimori travels to Asia from where he announces his resignation. On November 19, the president of the Council of Ministers, Federico Salas Guevara, officially and definitively confirms that the president of the Republic, Alberto Fujimori Fujimori Fujimori, will present his resignation before Congress. After the announcement, the Joint …