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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The Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) was tasked with investigating the crimes and human rights violations perpetrated from 1980 through the end of the conflict as a result …
On June 21, 2016, Law 30470, the Law on the Search for Disappeared Persons during the Period of Violence 1980–2000, was enacted, marking a paradigm shift in state intervention by …
The Madre Mía Case, related to an alleged human rights violation, is haunting former president Ollanta Humala once again. The Investigative Unit of El Comercio revealed information contained in 111 …
Judges established that the murder of an elderly woman and the enforced disappearance of a minor in Ayacucho in 1984 was part of a systematic practice of the Peruvian Army, …
Book that seeks to highlight the figure of the imprisoned terrorist leader Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, and vindicates his role as a "social fighter" and "revolutionary." A text that allows one …
A legal report prepared by experts from the Defensoría del Pueblo, which dismantles the thesis of the Sala Villa Stein, was submitted to the Poder Judicial and to the Inter-American …
The swift repeal of Legislative Decree 1097, which granted immunity to members of the State forces who committed horrific crimes during the suppression of the Sendero Luminoso and MRTA terrorist …
This study aims to establish, through a biopolitical lens, that Peru, during the government of Alberto Fujimori, was under a permanent state of exception; in which army barracks were used …
The accounts of survivors of the Los Cabitos barracks in Peru, who claim that the site was a center of torture and extermination, are corroborated as more bodies clandestinely buried …
At a ceremony to be held on August 29 in the rural community of Putis, Ayacucho, a wake will be held for the remains of more than 120 peasants killed …
Some time ago, here at El Diario Internacional, we noted that if the "Proseguir" group — which for a time opposed capitulation and the "peace letters" — failed to make …
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori acknowledged two secret memoranda he signed in 1991 to reward military commanders and subordinates, shortly before they organized a death squad and murdered 25 suspects …
The discovery of mass graves in Andean zones and in the jungle over the past eight months — containing the skeletal remains of victims of the war that ravaged Peru …
The publicity display put on by Abimael Guzmán and his co-defendants during the first hearing of the trial related to the César Vallejo academy left no room for doubt: the …
EDAC, as part of its commitment to the defense of human rights, organized a forum on the new proceedings for terrorism cases. We found that, in the political and judicial …
The subject we are called to address on this occasion is the crime of terrorism; therefore, we have attempted to develop it comprehensively and generically across its various aspects such …
Volume 7 of the CVR's Final Report includes seventy-three cases of serious human rights violations perpetrated by Sendero Luminoso, the MRTA, the Armed and Police Forces, and the self-styled Grupo …
The authors argue that although violence is part of Peru's history, the level of violence against the civilian population unleashed by Sendero Luminoso is unprecedented in its cruelty and extent. …
Only in Peru has there been the case — not of a private individual, but of a political regime — whose guiding principle, when naming ministers or recruiting parliamentarians and …
Our country suffered for nearly ten years from what was termed an "Internal War" characterized by the presence of terrorist groups such as the MRTA and Sendero Luminoso — fueled …
At 7:15 in the evening last Thursday the 3rd, the offices of the National Intelligence Service and the Army Intelligence Directorate — DINTE — were requesting information on the situation …
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, …
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 …
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 …
As Dr. Peña Cabrera notes in his book "Traición a la patria y arrepentimiento terrorista," the anti-terrorism legislation — that is, Legislative Decree 046, Laws 24953 and 24651, Legislative Decree …
This publication compiles material produced by an IDS working group between November 1991 and February 1992 in response to the enactment and subsequent congressional debate on the decrees issued by …
This is an assessment of the Sendero Luminoso phenomenon, which is recognized as the country's foremost problem. We believe that only through analysis of its main and most recent manifestations …
The chapters of reflection that follow have been formulated progressively, moving from the most apparent to the most profound, always adhering to the facts as seen from an ethical perspective. …