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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Former president Alberto Fujimori is sentenced (07-04-09)
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Fujimori: Guilty or innocent? pt 5 [of 5]
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Fujimori: Guilty or innocent? pt 4 [of 5]
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Fujimori: Guilty or innocent? pt 3 [of 5]
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Fujimori: Guilty or innocent? pt 2 [of 5]
Fujimori sentenced for crimes against humanity
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Fujimori: Guilty or innocent? pt 1 [of 5]
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 10
Thus spoke Martin Rivas. Interview
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 4
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 5
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 6
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 7
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 8
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 9
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 11
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 12
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 13
The Barrios Altos massacre. Report
Santiago Martin Rivas testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 1
Santiago Martin Rivas testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 2
Santiago Martin Rivas testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 3
Santiago Martin Rivas testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 4
Santiago Martin Rivas testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 5
Santiago Martin Rivas testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 6
Santiago Martin Rivas testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 7
Santiago Martin Rivas testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 8
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 1
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 2
Vladimiro Montesinos testifies at the Fujimori trial. Part 3
The Barrios Altos massacre. Part III
The Barrios Altos massacre. Part II
Without Remorse: Testimony of a Former SIN Agent. Part 2.
The Barrios Altos massacre. Part I
Without Remorse: Testimony of a Former SIN Agent. Part 1.
1998
Martin Rivas escapes through one of the side windows of Congress
1991
BARRIOS ALTOS MASSACRE
1991
One of the victims of the Barrios Altos massacre is transported to the Lima Morgue.
1991
Funerals of victims of the Barrios Altos massacre
1991
BARRIOS ALTOS MASSACRE
Documents 50
Of Terror and Shadows
Barrios Altos and La Cantuta are the cases that could put former President Fujimori behind bars. Most Peruvians know fragments of what happened — broken accounts, painful images — but …
Standards of Peruvian Constitutional Law and International Law on the Obligation to Combat Impunity for Crimes Against Humanity. Amicus Curiae
The Idehpucp, together with Abogados sin Fronteras – Canadá, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, Fundación para el Debido Proceso, Clinique internationale de défense des droits humains, …
Relatives of Victims in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta Cases Filed a Request for Conventionality Review Before the Supreme Court
Family members of the victims in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases, along with their legal defense team comprising APRODEH, COMISEDH, FEDEPAZ, and IDL — organizations that make up …
Letter to the Newspaper Perú 21. Complaint About the Publication of a Comic Strip That Offends the Memory of the Dead of Barrios Altos
We greet you on behalf of the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH), an institutional platform that brings together 78 organizations at the national level that defend and promote human …
Toward the 'Para-Judicialization' of Truth Commissions in the Region?
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has underscored the role of truth commission reports in Latin America in establishing the facts that constitute the violation of a right, affirming the …
The 55 of Lima
Lima accounts for only 2% of the disappeared at the national level. But this does not prevent the identification of a pattern of disappearances. Three moments are identified in the …
When Did Peru Go Wrong? A Variation in the Key of Human Rights
The obsessive question resurfaces: this time, when did Peru go wrong? How did this (another) missed opportunity come about? How has the crude and arrogant right — being a minority, …
WOLA: Serious Setback in Efforts to Achieve Truth and Justice in Peru
On July 20, the Supreme Court of Peru issued a highly controversial ruling in a case involving members of the annihilation squad known as the Grupo Colina. According to human …
CNM Launched Investigation Against Villa Stein and Four Supreme Court Judges
The Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura, as the sole disciplinary body for Supreme Court judges, agreed yesterday to open a preliminary investigation into the magistrates of the Sala Penal of …
Justice and Truth: A Slamming Door in the Faces of Victims
This year, in connection with the sentence issued by the Corte Suprema de Justicia in the Barrios Altos case, crimes against humanity returned to the top of the public agenda …
The Pardon and Ethics
During the Fujimontesinista decade, a pernicious style emerged and took hold — one that few of us denounced and that the majority refused to see or confront. Society accepted it …
The Verdict in the Barrios Altos Case: The New Instrument of Impunity
Last Friday the Sala Penal Permanente of the Corte Suprema de Justicia made public the ruling in the Barrios Altos case, following a television interview with the president of that …
The Conviction for the Barrios Altos Crime
It should be recalled that the amnesty laws were enacted in 1995 because of this case, as the existence of a military organization dedicated to killing people, and its connection …
The Conviction of Fujimori Two Years Later
Exactly 2 years ago, the Special Criminal Chamber, presided over by magistrate César San Martín Castro, issued a condemnatory sentence against former president Alberto Fujimori Fujimori for the commission of …
25 Years in Prison for Fujimori
In a historic ruling, a Peruvian court sentenced former President Alberto Fujimori to 25 years in prison for human rights violations. Fujimori, 70, was accused of being the intellectual author …
Human Rights Tribunals in Latin America: The Fujimori Trial in Comparative Perspective
In order to highlight and analyze the Fujimori trial in comparative perspective, as well as other proceedings for human rights violations currently underway in various parts of Latin America, the …
Fujimori Gave the Order
With only a few days remaining before sentence is handed down against former president Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000) for the crimes of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, the prosecutor in the …
Fujimori Guilty: The 25-Year Sentence for the Former President Was Upheld by the Supreme Court
The First Transitional Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court confirmed the 25-year prison sentence for Alberto Fujimori for the murders in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases, and for …
Final for the Grandstand
"People were no longer asking how you were, but who had been murdered," recalled former president Alberto Fujimori in a passage of his self-defense begun on Wednesday the 1st. He …
The Responsibility of the Leader. 41 Pieces of Evidence Condemn Fujimori
The trial of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori for the commission of serious crimes against human rights is, without doubt, the most important in our history, not only because a former president …
Resolution Condemning Alberto Fujimori Fujimori
Resolution of the Peruvian State ratifying the sentence against Alberto Fujimori. Published on December 30, 2009.
The Fujimori Trial: 2nd Report from the WOLA Observer
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) sent Dr. Jo-Marie Burt, professor of political science at George Mason University, to Lima to observe the trial of former Peruvian President Alberto …
Chronology: The Case of the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta Massacres
A compilation of the events and investigations that brought Alberto Fujimori to the defendant's bench.
Extradition: Waiting for Fujimori
The opinions of former attorney Antonio Maldonado and José Miguel Vivanco, of Human Rights Watch, constitute a long and compelling list of arguments why the Chilean justice system must rule …
Santiago Martin Rivas: Order to Kill "Came from Above"
In a testimony that, as is known, appears in the book "Eye for an Eye" ("Ojo por ojo") by journalist Umberto Jara, Major EP (r) Santiago Martin Rivas, former operational …
Peru: Former Paramilitary Leader Captured
Peruvian authorities captured on Monday one of the most wanted men by the country's justice system. He is Santiago Martín Rivas, former leader of the paramilitary group "Colina," a squad …
And Truth Will Be Our Defense
More than 10 years have passed since the night when the killers burst into the old building on Jirón Huanta 840. If until then many had doubted the magnitude of …
Amnesty vs. Human Rights. Seeking Justice
This Ombudsman's report presents the background and the political, institutional, and legal context in which the amnesty laws were enacted, along with the parameters for evaluating, analyzing, and resolving the …
Ombudsman's Report No. 57: AMNESTY vs. HUMAN RIGHTS. Seeking Justice
One of the most complex problems faced by processes of democratic re-institutionalization, such as the one currently underway in the country, is overcoming and resolving the human rights violations that …
Investigation: The History of the Death Squad
An intelligence agent who participated as a member of the "Special Team" self-styled "Grupo Colina" and an officer who held a senior position in the Army Intelligence Service (SIE) have …
Judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Barrios Altos Case
In the Barrios Altos case, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issues the present Judgment: 1. To accept the acknowledgment of international responsibility made by the Peruvian State. 2. To …
Extradition, Trial and Conviction of Alberto Fujimori
The criminal proceedings brought against former president Alberto Fujimori in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases, and the case of the Basements of the Army Intelligence Service (SIE), has …
THE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT: INADMISSIBLE
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a forceful and unequivocal pronouncement on the withdrawal of the government of Peru from its jurisdiction.
The Price of Impunity - Opinion Column
Alberto Fujimori's bad temper is growing, as protests mount against the infamous amnesty law promulgated last week. On Tuesday he went to a highland village — with the cameras of …
When Forgetting Does Harm
The outrage provoked by the Amnesty Law enacted on Thursday the 16th reached unforeseen levels, as reflected in an Apoyo S.A. poll. But that popular sentiment had equally unexpected counterparts, …
Scandal Law
The Amnesty Law bill emerged, in the middle of the night, from the folder of congressman Gilberto Siura. "This is the same parliamentarian who presented the disgraceful ruling on the …
Jurisdictions in Dispute
Judge Antonia Saquicuray waited in vain from last Monday onward for the military personnel and SIN officials she had summoned to give testimony about the Barrios Altos crime, which occurred …
War and Amnesty - Opinion Column
The Shining Path attacks following the promulgation of the Amnesty Law and the Barrios Altos law show that the counter-insurgency war is far from over. The car-bomb attack on Víctor …
Power on Trial. Jurisdictional Dispute Interrupts Investigation of the Barrios Altos Massacre
Once again the Poder Judicial will face a test of its autonomy and independence with the jurisdictional dispute raised by the military courts regarding the Barrios Altos massacre case, which …
Another Scandal. Barrios Altos Law
Twenty minutes after the "Barrios Altos law" was passed in the CCD, the magistrates who had been staging a Japanese strike — working more than normal — at the Palacio …
[EXCISED] Says Army/SIN Death Squad Existed
This cable contains information provided by a source that has been [CENSORED], according to which the investigation into the 1991 Barrios Altos killings and other information point to the same …
[Excised] Says Army/SIN Death Squad Exists
The U.S. Embassy's Political Counselor discusses death squad allegations with a Peruvian officer. The officer notes that the death squad was responsible for Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, and corroborates …
Barrios Altos Massacre: One Month Later
This update of developments in the investigation into the Barrios Altos massacre notes that the Peruvian government has demonstrated little "political will" to find the perpetrators of the crime, and …