Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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.
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Photos & Videos 50
Peru: what remains of the Shining Path guerrilla?
ANFASEP Memory "So that it is not repeated"
Abimael and the birth of Shining Path
2016
ENCROACHERS ON THE LA HOYADA SANCTUARY
Island - Documentary
2016
PROTEST AGAINST THE ENCROACHERS ON LA HOYADA
2016
PROTECTION OF LA HOYADA
2016
THE LA HOYADA SANCTUARY
27 years after the Cayara massacre
"Greetings from Los Cabitos". Documentary. Trailer
"La hoyada: Sanctuary of memory". Documentary
Video
2015
"Greetings from Los Cabitos". Documentary. Fragment 1
Video
2015
"Greetings from Los Cabitos". Documentary. Fragment 2
Cayara case. Interview with mayor David Ccayo.
Video
2015
"Greetings from Los Cabitos". Documentary. Fragment 3
Memory Sanctuary. Project.
"Cabanino: the death express". Documentary.
Sanctuary - Documentary
Testimony of Toribia Casa Carrasco
Lirio Qasa - Song
Testimony of Eugenia Altamirano Huamán
Achka Illaki kallpanchawaraku (So much pain gave us strength and courage) - Documentary
Martyrs of Uchuraccay. Fragment of the documentary "Traces of the path"
Puntaman puririsu (We keep moving forward) - Documentary
Mamakuna (Mamá Cirila) - Documentary
Sexual violence in Llusita (Ayacucho)
2012
RETABLO. DREAM OF THE HUAMANGUINA WOMAN DURING EIGHT YEARS OF VIOLENCE
2012
RETABLO. WAILLAKIS PURMACKAN
Los Cabitos case. Interview with Gloria Cano, from APRODEH
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 2. WAILLAKIS PURMACKAN
2012
RETABLO. PICAFLORCITO
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 1. DREAM OF THE HUAMANGUINA WOMAN
2012
RETABLO. THE HUAMANGUINO
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL OF THE HUAMANGUINO
2012
RETABLO, VENTURA CCALAMAQUI
2012
RETABLO. THE CONDEMNED
2012
RETABLO. DEATH IN YERBABUENA
2012
RETABLO. PHOTOGRAPH BY EDILBERTO JIMÉNEZ
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 1 OF DEATH IN YERBABUENA
2012
RETABLO. PHOTOGRAPH BY EDILBERTO JIMÉNEZ
2012
RETABLO. WOMAN IN THE CEMETERY
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 2 OF THE CONDEMNED
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 1 OF THE CONDEMNED
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 3 OF THE CONDEMNED
2012
RETABLO. MURDER OF CHILDREN IN HUERTAHUAYCCO
2012
RETABLO. ENOUGH TORTURE
2012
RETABLO. LIRIO QAQA, DEEP ABYSS
2012
RETABLO. START OF SCHOOL YEAR
2012
RETABLO. HORNS AND CLAWS
Documents 50
Yuyarisun: We Are Remembering
Yuyarisun is an archive of testimonies from community members of Ayacucho and Huancavelica, Peru, that document the political violence of Peru's last two decades. The archive is organized into four …
Work of the Dominican Sisters in Ayacucho
The Misioneras Dominicas del Rosario, since 1943, have contributed to the development, progress, and well-being of the people of Ayacucho, responding in a timely manner to the most pressing needs …
Ayacucho: Prosecutor's Office Handed Over 58 Bodies of Victims from the Terrorism Era
The Minister of Justice, Marisol Pérez Tello, participated in the ceremony for the handover of 58 bodies of victims from the period of terrorism to their families in Huamanga (department …
Human Rights Online
Press bulletin from the IDEHPUCP.
IGNORED EVENTS THAT PRECEDED THE START OF THE GENOCIDAL STORM
An indispensable book for understanding the history of the Universidad Nacional San Cristobal de Huamanga and the incursion of Senderismo with the tragic consequences that are widely known. The prologue …
Ayacucho: Retired Army Lieutenant Who Participated in the Accomarca Massacre Captured
Army Lieutenant (ret.) Juan Manuel Elías Rivera Rondón (56), sentenced last September to 24 years in prison for being one of the members of the military patrol that in August …
From Huamanga. In the Sixties and Seventies
"The book that Enrique Moya delivers to us has been written over several years. He has sought to give testimony to various events and social facts that have remained in …
Only 5 Defendants Remain in the Los Cabitos Case
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 …
The Surrendered. On the Gift of Forgiveness
"The nature of this document is somewhat undefined. In its form it groups short narratives, halfway between reflections and biographical notes from an era of violence. Let us call them …
Huanta, a Town That Seeks to Close Its Wounds
Huanta, an Ayacuchan province, is one of those with the highest number of deaths and disappearances recorded as a result of the political violence that swept the country between 1980 …
UN Mission Visited La Hoyada, the Cemetery of the Disappeared in Ayacucho
After thirty years, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances returned to the area of the ovens, the fuel tank, and the clandestine graves adjacent to the well-known military …
Ombudsman urges the regional government of Ayacucho to speed up construction of the perimeter fence at 'La Hoyada' to protect the Memory Sanctuary
In a communication addressed to the Regional Governor of Ayacucho, the acting Ombudsman, Eduardo Vega Luna, urged that authority to adopt pertinent and urgent measures in order to expedite the …
La Hoyada Memory Sanctuary in Peru: A Space for Healing and Reconciliation
The Peruvian internal armed conflict ended in 2000, but unresolved situations remain that keep many families of the disappeared in uncertainty. With the aim of healing this wound and, at …
The Voices of Victims of the Los Cabitos Military Barracks
Most complaints of disappearance and torture in the department of Ayacucho date from 1983 and 1984; however, only those concerning the first of those years have advanced far enough to …
Los Cabitos. Horror and Death
The publication of a book about what happened at the Los Cabitos barracks in Ayacucho in 1983 invites reflection on a tragedy that some wish to silence (Cuartel Los Cabitos. …
Reflections at the Foot of 136 Corpses
In the Los Cabitos barracks in Ayacucho, 59 complete skeletons were found, along with bones corresponding to more than one hundred bodies out of a much larger total number of …
Memories from Nemesis
NOTE FROM THE FUNDACIÓN HERBERT MOROTE. One of the objectives of the Biblioteca Virtual de la Verdad y la Reconciliación Perú (1980-2000) is to make available to interested parties books …
McClintock: "There Was a State Policy Not to Acknowledge Detentions"
Witness. A human rights consultant and former Amnesty Internacional researcher comes to Lima to testify in the trial of senior military officers in the Los Cabitos case. He recalls the …
Hugo Bustíos Saavedra Is Not a Cold Statistic; He Is a Crime Against Humanity
The daughter of the Caretas correspondent, murdered in 1988 by a military patrol, says that her family's grief has been revived upon learning that retired general Daniel Urresti, one of …
Regional Political Analysis Magazine – Retablo No. 56
CONTENTS: Real politics in an electoral year / Women are the ones who will save Peruvian politics / VRAEM: The ghost of eradication / Discrimination, racism and violence among adolescents …
Reunion with Horror in Peru
Families of victims of Sendero Luminoso and the Army jointly receive exhumed remains in Ayacucho, the epicenter of the bloody war between the State and the terrorists in the 1980s. …
Three Shining Path Members Killed in the Peruvian Jungle
The Joint Command of the Armed Forces reported that during the early hours of Monday, a confrontation between authorities and members of Sendero Luminoso in the jungle of Ayacucho (southern …
The Hunters of the VRAEM
The remarkable story of the brigade that, over four years, seeded informants throughout the tight-knit inner circle of "Alipio" and "Gabriel." A red cap was the lure. The police informant …
The Truth Shows Itself Somehow and Sets Things in Their Place
"There has been a great deal of prejudice in the CVR's work, and it continues to exist. There are people who criticize without reading," says Lerner Febres about the final …
Former Lieutenant Reconstructs the Detention and Disappearance of Four People
In March 1991, the mayor, the deputy governor, and two other people in the district of Chuschi were taken to the Pampa Cangallo military base. Seven officers are blamed. The …
Ayacucho: Toward Another Future?
A look at Ayacucho — and even more so, an assessment of its situation — almost always centers on comparing past and present in terms of violence and the possibility …
In Defense of La Hoyada as a 'Sanctuary of Memory'
Through an official letter addressed to the President of the Council of Ministers, the Ombudsman requests that he order the corresponding measures to make the construction of the Santuario de …
Hearing and Telling Violence from the Inside. A Conversation with Kimberly Theidon and Edith Del Pino
Interview with Kimberly Theidon and Edith Del Pino. Both researchers have been working for several years on the aftermath of the internal armed conflict in Ayacucho, Huancavelica, and the VRAE. …
LAW ON SEARCHING, IDENTIFYING, AND RESTORING DISAPPEARED PERSONS
According to COMISEDH investigations carried out over the last 10 years, more than 60% of burial sites at the national level — where the remains of victims of the internal …
The Long Agony of Edmundo Camana
The face of pain. Edmundo Camana photographed by Óscar Medrano on April 5, 1983, at the hospital in Huamanga. The man in this photo was one of the survivors of …
Peru, Ten Years Healing
Ten years after the creation of the Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación, support for victims of the conflict that took place between 1980 and 2000 continues to have …
The New Horizons of Displaced Families from Ayacucho and Huancavelica. Process of Integration into Urban Areas: The Case of Huancayo
This post-graduate thesis in anthropology addresses the phenomenon of displacement in Peru and attempts to shed light on the reality experienced by a large sector of the civilian population during …
An Assessment Across Several Timeframes
The CVR's Final Report captures not only the results of two years of investigations, interviews with more than 17,000 people, public hearings, and debate; it also synthesized a long process …
"You May Be Able to Fool Me, But Lima Will Be Watching You, Evaluating You. Lima Decides." An Ethnographic Look at the Comprehensive Reparations Program
This article constitutes a progress report of the research project "Reparando ciudadanías: estrategias y sentidos de reconocimiento en Ayacucho post-CVR," which has been underway since January 2013 thanks to funding …
Meanings, Learnings and Future Prospects of Adolescents from Putacca Based on a Collective Memory Experience
This research was conducted in the community of Putacca, Ayacucho, with a group of adolescents who participated in a collective memory project promoted by the Asociación Paz y Esperanza. Theory …
Chronicles of the Andean Migrant: Music, Migration, and Political Violence in Peru
This article describes the social and musical experience of migrants from the Ayacucho town of Hualla during their displacement and integration into Lima. The first phase of migration to the …
The Huamanga Files
Movadef, the Trotskyist left, and the current student resistance against Sendero Luminoso in what was once the bastion of terror. Twenty years have passed since the capture of Abimael Guzmán, …
A Season in Hell
The book by Jesuit Flores Lizana, Diario de vida y muerte, narrates the horror he experienced in Ayacucho, devastated by the war between Sendero Luminoso and the military forces. He …
The Truth About the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru
This article is an example of the attacks by the far-right in Peru against the CVR, and it deserves to be read to appreciate the degree of shamelessness with which …
Family and Intergenerational Transmission of Memories of the Internal Armed Conflict in Ayacucho
The work presented below is the product of a joint effort by the Grupo Memoria at the IEP, with students from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional …
"You're Screwed, You're in the Barracks." Trial for the Cabitos Case: Chronicles of the Hearings in Ayacucho (Part II)
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 …
28 YEARS AFTER THE LARGEST MASSACRE, IT STILL HURTS
On December 13, 1984, in the locality of Putis – San José de Secce, the largest massacre recorded during the period of political violence was perpetrated: 123 people were killed …
Public Prosecutor's Office Delivers Skeletal Remains in the Sachabamba Case
The Segunda Fiscalía Penal Supraprovincial of Ayacucho handed over the remains of nine victims in the Sachabamba case, a peasant community that was attacked 28 years ago by Sendero Luminoso. …
Prosecutor's Office Hands Over Remains of 17 Victims in the Cceraocros Case
The Segunda Fiscalía Penal Supraprovincial of Ayacucho returned the remains of 17 victims of the Cceraocros massacre, which occurred in the district of Ocros (province of Huamanga) in 1984 and …
The Extrajudicial Executions in Accomarca
The Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación established that on August 14, 1985, an Army patrol belonging to the "Lince" company of Huamanga, under the command …
Gonzalo Thought
Much is said about the so-called "Gonzalo thought" and little is known about it. In the process of the failed legal registration of their political movement, the Shining Path members …
The Displaced People of Ayacucho Remain Trapped in Their Memories
On May 17, 1980, in Chuschi, Ayacucho, terror was born. In this province whose Quechua name means 'corner of the dead,' the number of those killed and disappeared approaches 26,000, …