Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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'. …
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