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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To Combat Terror
Former terrorist leader Martha Huatay left the Ancón II prison yesterday after serving a 25-year custodial sentence, drawing the attention of various media outlets and the concern of the entire …
Two Active-Duty Military Officers Convicted for the Forced Disappearance of Teacher Rubén Villanueva in Lircay in March 1990
On Monday, September 23, the Sala Penal Nacional convicted Army Brigadier General Carlos Alberto Paz Figueroa, former head of the military base at Lircay, and Lieutenant Colonel EP Yorvil Távara …
Villanueva Toro Case: The National Criminal Court Convicted General Paz Figueroa
The Sala Penal Nacional has just issued an important ruling in the case of the enforced disappearance of Rubén Aparicio Villanueva Toro, a crime perpetrated on March 25, 1990 in …
La Cantuta Massacre, for Which Fujimori Was Convicted, Marks Its 20th Anniversary
Today marks 20 years since nine students and a professor from La Cantuta university were abducted and murdered by a military group, in one of the cases for which former …
April 5 and 7, Two Dates to Remember
April 6 is an interesting day on which to write a column, as it is preceded and followed by two dates representing opposing and mutually exclusive tendencies in Peruvian history: …
Conviction for Massacres Does Not Erase the Horror
Former intelligence adviser Vladimiro Montesinos and former Army chief Nicolás Hermoza, the second and third in command, respectively, in the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000), were sentenced on …
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 …
The Rage of the Right Wing - Opinion Column
The 25-year sentence handed down to Alberto Fujimori is not only a masterpiece of law and logic, a mental construction of impeccable clarity and an irrefutable chain of facts, documents, …
R. N. Number 5385*2006
The objection filed against the conviction of Sendero Luminoso leaders is rejected as unfounded. The objection filed against the conviction of Abimael Guzmán to life imprisonment for the commission of …
Those Responsible for Disappearances in Chuschi Are Convicted
The Ministry of Justice reports that Army officer Collins Collantes Guerra and police officer Luis Juárez Aspiro have been sentenced to 14 and six years in prison, respectively, for crimes …
Abimael Guzmán, 'Comrade Gonzalo' and the 'Guiding Thought' That Sowed Terror in Peru
Abimael Guzmán Reynoso has been sentenced to spend the rest of his days in prison for aggravated terrorism and aggravated homicide, following a process that lasted a year and was …
Who Is the Real Lori?
Told this way, the story cannot help but inspire sympathy. The brilliant student from the exclusive Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), altruistic and committed, concerned about Latin America's dispossessed, was …