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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Everyone Against the Truth! What You Always Wanted to Know About the CVR. Who Does Not Want to Disseminate the CVR Report? Is Shining Path Re-emerging?
Maintaining his direct style, without ambiguities or artifice, Morote unmasks those who attack the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación to conceal their crimes, complicity, or silence committed during the …
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. …
19 Mass Graves Hold the Remains of 56 Civilians in the Heights of Chungui
For 10 days, La República accompanied a team of archaeologists and forensic experts from the Ministerio Público on their journey through the remote areas of the region known as Oreja …
War Orphans Search for Their Relatives Among the Unearthed Mass Graves
According to the CVR report, between 1983 and 1994, the years of greatest violence in the district of Chungui, 1,384 civilians were killed by Sendero Luminoso, ronderos, and security forces. …
"Because Otherwise Again": Political Violence, "State of Exception" and "Obscene Ritual" in "Las retiradas"
This thesis seeks to identify the different discursive practices developed by Sendero Luminoso and the Peruvian Army from the perspective of the peasants of Chungui. I intend to demonstrate that …
Ayacucho: Remains of 28 Murdered Peasants Exhumed
After 27 years, forensic experts from the specialized forensic team of the Ministerio Público of Ayacucho exhumed the remains of 28 people, including 7 children, who were extrajudicially killed by …
Remains of Another 20 Victims Exhumed in Chungui
The remains of 20 more people — including 10 children — killed at the Chungui base between 1983 and 1989 were exhumed by forensic experts from the specialized forensic team …
Seven Capital Retablos of Chungui
It is not imagination. It is above all memory. But wounded memory. The Ayacucho anthropologist and retablo artist Edilberto Jiménez has captured, like a true chronicler, in seven retablos, the …
Chungui. It Is Not Only Memory, but Open Life and Hope.
Six years after the delivery of the report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, the men and women of Chungui call on us to keep seeking justice, to …
Cochas Paca and Dog's Ear. Stories Not to Forget
The peasant communities of Tastabamba, Putucunay, and Totota are located in the "Oreja de Perro," a vast and remote area in the district of Chungui, in the far southeastern corner …