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.
On May 11, 1992, the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of several individuals who were allegedly detained and disappeared by Peruvian police and navy forces. The case was opened by the Commission on July 6, 1992, and despite …
On March 4, 1990, unknown individuals detonated powerful explosives at the central office of Amnesty International in Lima, causing significant material damage to the office and nearby buildings. This incident was part of a series of attacks and threats against human rights organizations in Peru during this period. These actions …
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On January 29, 1992, members of the Colina squad kidnapped, tortured and murdered six peasants from the Caraqueño and San José annexes in the district of Pativilca (north of the …
The trial began in 2005 against the entire senior staff of the Huamanga military barracks for the death and disappearance of more than 50 people in 1983. The refusal of …
By means of a letter dated January 23, 2013, addressed to the President of the Republic, Ollanta Humala Tasso, Aprodeh expresses its displeasure at the excessive and unjustified delay on …
IDL has worked in regional processes to try to reconstruct the past. The work in Huancavelica was intensive. Little was known about what happened in that department, unlike Ayacucho, where …
For the second time in the ongoing oral trial of the Los Cabitos case (1983), the Sala Penal Nacional collected witness testimony in the city of Huamanga between August 21 …
Below we present a chronicle of the first two days of testimony from witnesses and aggrieved parties in the Caso Cabitos 1983.
The Collective Reparations Program (PRC) has been implemented since June 2007 as part of the Comprehensive Reparations Plan (PIR), contained within the Recommendations of the Comisión de la Verdad y …
This report covers four years (2007–2011) of implementation of the Collective Reparations Program (PRC) as part of the Comprehensive Reparations Plan (PIR) for victims of Peru's internal armed conflict, which …
Reparations Monitoring System. Situation of women who have received collective reparations. Once again, the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos – APRODEH, in alliance with the International Center for Transitional Justice – …
Once again, the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos – APRODEH, in alliance with the International Center for Transitional Justice – ICTJ, is pleased to present the results of the monitoring study …
This report focuses on examining the progress of the second phase of the PRC, given that it is the component of the Comprehensive Reparations Plan that reports the most progress …
This document is the result of the Pilot Project Reparations Monitoring System, which the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos - APRODEH is implementing in partnership with the International Center for Transitional …
During the years 1983 and 1985, Ayacucho became the main arena of violence. The bloody terrorist actions of Sendero Luminoso were met with fierce repression by the Armed Forces. In …
When the human rights of a large portion of the Peruvian population have been violated, and the other half of Peruvians remain indifferent to it — there stand, with great …
The Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (Aprodeh) has prepared a preliminary report on all extrajudicial executions, massacres in peasant communities, arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture, and terrorist attacks — both by …
The number of cases reported for sexual violence between 1980 and 2000, involving military, police, and subversive personnel, was undoubtedly minimal in relation to what is known today. Despite this, …
To find out how human rights organizations evaluate the process of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its final report, ideele spoke with Francisco Soberón, executive secretary of the Coordinadora …
A press dossier with documentary evidence on the forced sterilizations that occurred during the government of Alberto Fujimori and that followed a state policy. The material was distributed at a …
The discovery of mass graves in Andean and jungle areas over the past eight months, containing the remains of victims of the war that ravaged Peru, has become an open …
During the last 20 years of political violence experienced in Peru, those responsible at the state level for human rights violations have not been investigated, let alone sanctioned. In Peru, …
Reports from the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) document the cruelty with which both Sendero Luminoso and the Peruvian Army inflicted suffering on the population of the Ayacuchan district of …
A sign that times are changing for the better is that the democratic government of Valentín Paniagua chose as one of its first symbolic acts the freeing of innocent prisoners. …
Among the many consequences of the internal war, that of persons unjustly placed under terrorism arrest warrants is one that went relatively unnoticed until recently. Being under an arrest warrant …
The noisy reappearance of the Colina group on the national scene reveals that the killers of La Cantuta are in good health and enjoy flaunting their power. The flowers and …