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.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an interpretive judgment on the Barrios Altos case, clarifying central aspects of its previous merits judgment of March 14, 2001. The Court unanimously decided that the judgment on the merits in the Barrios Altos case has general effects. This judgment established that amnesty …
On June 4, 2001, the Supreme Council of Military Justice declared null and void the resolutions of dismissal issued by the War Chamber on October 21, 1994 and July 6, 1995, which had favored Generals Nicolás Hermoza Ríos, Pedro Villanueva Valdivia, Juan Rivera Lazo, Julio Salazar Monroe, Captain Vladimiro Montesinos …
On April 7, 2001, the 5th Special Anticorruption Criminal Court issued an order extending the investigation against Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres, General Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos and thirteen other people for the crimes of aggravated homicide, serious injuries and illicit grouping in the Barrios Altos case. An arrest warrant …
On March 24, 2001, in compliance with the sentence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the 1st Corporate Criminal Court annulled the resolution to file the Barrios Altos case issued in 1995 by the 11th Criminal Court of the Superior Court of Lima. It was ordered that the 16th …
On March 14, 2001, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in the Barrios Altos case, declaring that amnesty laws 26479 and 26492 are incompatible with the American Convention on Human Rights and have no legal effect. The Peruvian State recognized its international responsibility for violation of the …
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark judgment in the Barrios Altos case, declaring that the amnesty laws enacted in Peru lack legal effect because they are incompatible with the American Convention. The judgment established that amnesty, statutes of limitation and exclusion of liability provisions that seek to …
On July 14, 1995, magistrates of the 11th Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima, invoking self-amnesty laws 26479 and 26492, overturned Judge Saquicuray's decision and ordered the final dismissal of the Barrios Altos case. The Chamber ruled that the amnesty law was not antagonistic to the Constitution or …
The Eleventh Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima declared null the resolution that had declared inapplicable the amnesty law 26479 in the Barrios Altos case, and consequently declared it applicable to the process followed against members of the Colina Group. The Court argued that the power to grant …
President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori promulgated Law 26492, which establishes as obligatory the application of the controversial Amnesty Law, whose bill has been supported by the majority of Congress. With this, Judge Antonia Saquicuray Sanchez's ruling on the inapplicability of the amnesty benefit for those involved in the Barrios Altos case …
By means of official letter N° 14-CI-CSJM, the War Council decided to declare that the request of the Judge of the 16th Criminal Court of Lima, who had asked that four members of the Colina Group prosecuted for the Barrios Altos massacre be placed at her court's disposition, had been …
Provincial Prosecutor Ana Magallanes requested the judiciary to proceed according to article 138 of the Constitution, which establishes that in the event of incompatibility between a constitutional norm and a legal norm, judges should prefer the former. The prosecutor argued that amnesty law 26479 violated human rights and due process. …
On June 16, 1995, Judge Antonia Saquicuray of the 16th Criminal Court of Lima issued a decision declaring Article 1 of Law 26479 inapplicable to the Barrios Altos criminal trial, exercising the diffuse control authorized by the Constitution. The judge held that a crime against humanity could not be subject …
On June 16, 1995, the head judge of the 16th Criminal Court of Lima issued a resolution declaring Amnesty Law No. 26479, which had been approved the day before, inapplicable to the Barrios Altos case. This decision questioned the constitutionality of the amnesty law, but Congress reacted immediately by approving …
On June 15, 1995, Congress approved Law No. 26479 granting general amnesty to military personnel. This law expressly established that the facts or crimes covered by it, as well as the definitive acquittals and acquittals, would not be subject to investigation, and all judicial cases in process or in execution …
After initiating the judicial process against members of the Colina Group for the Barrios Altos massacre, the military court filed a jurisdictional dispute. However, before this was resolved, Law 26479 was passed, which granted amnesty to the accused and led to the case being shelved. This law prevented the investigation …
The Congress approves with 47 votes in favor and 11 against the General Amnesty Bill (26479) which will benefit those sentenced for criminal acts during the fight against terrorism and the attempted coup of November 13, 1992. The law also includes acts of infidelity and insult to the nation and …
On April 18, 1995, the judge of the 16th Criminal Court of Lima, Dr. Antonia Saquicuray, admitted the denunciation of the Provincial Prosecutor and opened an investigation against General EP Julio Salazar Monroe and others accused for the crimes of murder and injuries in the Barrios Altos massacre. The judge …
Criminal Prosecutor Ana Magallanes filed a criminal complaint and the Sixteenth Criminal Court of Lima, headed by Judge Antonia Saquicuray, opened an investigation against General Julio Salazar Monroe, Major Santiago Martin Rivas, and non-commissioned officers Wilson Carvajal García, Juan Sosa Saavedra and Hugo Coral Goycochea for the extrajudicial executions in …
On October 21, 1994, the War Chamber of the Supreme Council of Military Justice closed the Barrios Altos case against Generals Pedro Villanueva Valdivia, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos, Juan Nolberto Rivera Lazo and Vladimiro Montesinos Torres, without further investigation. The decision was confirmed on October 28, 1994 by the …
On May 6, 1993, General EP (r) Rodolfo Robles Espinoza, third in line in the Peruvian Army, in a public letter accused Army commanders and intelligence advisor Vladimiro Montesinos Torres of maintaining an operational command responsible for crimes against humanity, among them those of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta. In …
On November 15, 1991, the Ministers of the Interior and Defense appeared again before the Senate Committee. General Briones Davila denied the existence of the 'Ambulant Operations Plan' and the 'Lima Sheraton Surveillance Post', based on documents from DIRCOTE and the General Staff of the Armed Forces. In view of …
On November 10, 1991, the Senate Human Rights Commission summoned former Ministers of the Interior and Defense, Generals Juan Briones Davila and Victor Malca Villanueva, to report on the Barrios Altos massacre. The ministers presented three hypotheses about the perpetrators (Shining Path, MRTA or outside organizations) but categorically denied the …
On November 3, 1991, the Colina Group murdered 16 people who were participating in a pollada in Barrios Altos, leaving four others seriously wounded. This was the first event for which the Colina Group became known to the public. The Colina Group was a death squad that operated as part …
On November 3, 1991, the Colina detachment executed fifteen people in Barrios Altos, Lima. The operation was carried out by heavily armed Peruvian army personnel wearing ski masks. The victims were executed indiscriminately with firearms with silencers, regardless of sex or age. The indiscriminate fire killed 11 adult males, 3 …
Dr. Antonia Saquicuray heard the Barrios Altos case and supported the unconstitutionality of the Amnesty Law. This case was one of the few in which the impunity established by the amnesty laws was challenged. The Barrios Altos massacre was perpetrated by the death squad called 'Colina'. The case demonstrated that …
Seven soldiers of the Húsares de Junín regiment were killed after a bomb attack in Barrios Altos, Lima. As a result of the intense police and Peruvian Army actions, more than fifteen thousand people were arrested during the gigantic operation. This attack took place in a context of intensified political …
On June 3, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a bomb attack against soldiers of the "Húsares de Junín" regiment in the district of Barrios Altos, Lima. The attack resulted in the death of seven soldiers. This attack took place in a context of intensification of subversive actions in the …
AH José Carlos Mariátegui arose as a result of a land seizure carried out on October 14, 1984, by a group of 200 families from the shantytowns of Barrios Altos and Callao. The families, faced with rising rents, organized themselves and decided to have their own land in this area. …
The José Carlos Mariátegui Human Settlement arose as a result of a land seizure carried out on October 14, 1984, by a group of 200 families from the shantytowns of Barrios Altos and Callao. The families, faced with rising rents, organized themselves and decided to have their own land in …
On August 1, 1981, multiple simultaneous bombings took place in different parts of Lima. The targets included 4 premises of Acción Popular (AP), 3 of them located in San Martin and Barrios Altos, as well as 3 Peace Courts and the ESAL Office in Villa el Salvador. These attacks were …
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