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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Shining Path
Shining Path: Initiator and main party responsible for the violence. Part 2
Place of Memory: a space so as not to forget
Inauguration of the "Place of Memory"
Interview with Herbert Morote at Agencia Andina
Interview with Herbert Morote
Interview with Gloria Cano. CVR+10
Interview with former CVR commissioners: Sofía Macher and Carlos Tapia. On the Final Report.
Interview with Gloria Cano on impunity. Cases like La Cantuta and the Colina Group.
Interview with Gloria Cano about the El Frontón massacre
"Spreading the truth". Documentary.
Museum or Place of Memory in Peru: a historical fraud?
Forgetting or memory. Report
The Truth Commission Report has not been made effective in terms of reparations
Peru, the truth about the horror. On the Cover. Special report
Shining Path killed with machetes
Crimes in Huancasancos (Ayacucho). Documentary
Reflections - 6th Anniversary of the CVR Final Report
6th Anniversary of the CVR Final Report
"Lucanamarca". Complete film.
Fifth Anniversary of the CVR - Interview with Beatriz Alva Hart (Part 1)
Fifth Anniversary of the CVR - Interview with Beatriz Alva Hart (Part 2)
Supporters of Alberto Fujimori sabotage fifth anniversary of the CVR
CVR+5 - Fujimoristas infiltrate the ceremony
CVR+5 commemoration in Lima
Interview with Marusia Ruiz - Unique Victims Registry
In Abancay the fifth anniversary of the delivery of the CVR Final Report is commemorated.
"Farewell Ayacucho", Yuyachkani
Disrespect at "The Eye That Cries"
The beginning of the end. Report
"The True Story of Liz Rojas" - La verdadera historia de Liz Rojas. Docudrama
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Victims
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Citizenship and political parties
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Comprehensive reparations plan
Messages from the CVR Final Report: National reconciliation
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Truth as a process
Messages from the CVR Final Report: The destruction of democracy
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Defense and internal order
Messages from the CVR Final Report: The data
Chungui, traces of memory. Report
Social exclusion and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Cofader tribute at the memorial "The Eye That Cries"
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Shining Path.
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Women and violence
Messages from the CVR Final Report: State agents
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Self-defense committees
Messages from the CVR Final Report: (IN) Justice
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Crisis in education
Fujimori against the CVR
Documents 50
Terrorism in Peru. 1980-2000. The Version of the Military Who Fought It
According to this book, Peru's Armed Forces have been unjustly accused by the CVR and NGOs for the atrocities committed between 1980 and 2000. Quote from the book: "The biased …
The Accomarca Massacre: August 14, 1985
On August 14, 1985, 69 peasants from the Ayacuchan district of Accomarca were extrajudicially executed in the area known as LLoccllapampa by military personnel belonging to the Political-Military Command of …
THE JUDICIALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN PERU
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 …
Website of the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights of PUCP
This website holds a valuable archive of news and information on matters related to Human Rights in Peru.
Human Rights Organizations Commemorated the 15th Anniversary of the Delivery of the CVR Report
Human Rights organizations and relatives of victims of the internal conflict commemorated today, August 28, the 15th Anniversary of the delivery of the CVR report, paying a heartfelt tribute to …
Human Rights Online
Press bulletin from the IDEHPUCP.
Giving Account. Studies on Testimony of Political Violence in Peru (1980-2000)
This book is an incursion into the archive of testimonies about the political violence that occurred in Peru between 1980 and 2000, fundamental and little-studied material to date. The archive …
Shining Path at Universities: Concept and Practice of Folklore — 'New Type Art' in the Sikuris
Reflections are offered on the conception and practice of "Sendero Luminoso" regarding folklore, including sikuri ensembles. From the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Pensamiento Gonzalo worldview that claimed to be the ideology of the self-styled …
IGNORED EVENTS THAT PRECEDED THE START OF THE GENOCIDAL STORM
An indispensable book for understanding the history of the Universidad Nacional San Cristobal de Huamanga and the incursion of Senderismo with the tragic consequences that are widely known. The prologue …
A Law for the Disappeared
Various victims' organizations are pushing for the adoption of a new legal framework to address the demands of the families of those who disappeared during the conflict.
Disappeared Asháninkas
Ignorance and disinformation are the foundations upon which a certain sector of Fujimorismo seeks to discredit the CVR, claiming it did not specifically report the mass grave apparently found in …
The Agency of Victim Families' Organizations in Post-Conflict Peru
This article examines the process of political and social participation of victims' organizations in the context of the creation of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) and how …
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 …
Annual Report 2012-2013. Ten Years of the CVR Final Report
"What would be the best way to characterize 2013 for human rights in Peru? Perhaps it could be said that the inaction of institutions tasked with safeguarding rights intersects with …
Eduardo González: "From Abroad, the CVR Is Seen as an Institution with Great Technical Competence"
Interview with Eduardo González Cueva, who participated as Director of Public Hearings and Victim Protection and as a drafter of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y …
CVR: For a Memory That Liberates Us
Eleven years have passed since the presentation of the final report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación. The time elapsed has not dissolved but, on the contrary, has …
Reflections on Transitional Justice and Reparation for Victims of Forced Disappearance in Peru
As part of the commemoration of the 11th Anniversary of the presentation of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) report and the International Day of the Disappeared — …
Salomón Lerner Febres Participated in Ceremony Handing Over Land for the La Hoyada Sanctuary in Ayacucho
Salomón Lerner Febres, executive president of the Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (IDEHPUCP) and former president of the Comisión de la Verdad …
WHEN IMPUNITY ENDS THERE WILL BE RECONCILIATION
The book ¡Todos contra la verdad! by writer Herbert Morote, through plain language and without literary pretensions, seeks to disseminate what is not known but is condemned about the Comisión …
In the CVR Case, There Is Evident Impunity
Who does not want the CVR report to be disseminated? Is Sendero Luminoso resurging? Did the military kill more than Sendero during the period of political violence? These and more …
Essay on Memory
Can Peru speak of reconciliation when those who attack the FINAL report of the Truth Commission have not read it? ¡Todos contra la verdad! (Everyone Against the Truth), the new …
The Disappeared in Peru Matter to Us
The Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación reported approximately 69,000 persons disappeared in the context of political violence that occurred in the period 1980–2000 in our …
They Live in the Hearts of Those Who Loved Them
On January 26, 1983, eight journalists were killed in a frigid community on the Ayacuchan highlands. The whirlwind of violence then spreading across Peru suddenly engulfed those who had traveled …
The Disappeared in Peru Matter to Us
The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reported approximately 69,000 people disappeared in the context of the political violence that took place in the period 1980–2000 in our …
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 Internal War and the School Curriculum
The Ministry of Education, Minedu, convened a meeting of experts to discuss how to translate the years of terrorism into content that could be used in the school curriculum. It …
The Search for the Disappeared
In 2003, when the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) delivered its Final Report to the country, it estimated that the number of detained-disappeared persons in Peru between 1980 …
"You May Be Able to Fool Me, But Lima Will Be Watching You, Evaluating You. Lima Decides." An Ethnographic Look at the Comprehensive Reparations Program
This article constitutes a progress report of the research project "Reparando ciudadanías: estrategias y sentidos de reconocimiento en Ayacucho post-CVR," which has been underway since January 2013 thanks to funding …
Let Truth Show Its Power
The Peruvian CVR is a direct heir of the Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP) in Argentina and of the Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) of Guatemala. Its …
We Also Have a Dream
This past August 10th marked 10 years since the delivery of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR). Like so many other anniversaries, the event …
An Assessment Across Several Timeframes
The CVR's Final Report captures not only the results of two years of investigations, interviews with more than 17,000 people, public hearings, and debate; it also synthesized a long process …
The Ambiguities of the CVR's Final Report in Explaining the Causes and Dynamics of the Internal Armed Conflict
In this text the author argues that the IF of the CVR failed to articulate a coherent discourse in explaining the causes and dynamics of the internal armed conflict, and …
The Future Caught Up with Us
In this article the author reflects on the concept and meaning of reconciliation in postwar Peru, within the broader framework of the collective memory construction process, to draw attention to …
Urgent Need to Strengthen Reparations Policy
Ten years have passed since the delivery to the country of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), a historic document that confronted us with …
David Sulmont: "Many of the Things Said About the Figures Have a Rather Weak Foundation"
David Sulmont, current director of the Instituto de Opinión Pública of the PUCP, was head of the Information Systems area of the CVR. From that role he oversaw everything related …
Memory Has Not Been Forgotten
IDL has worked in regional processes to try to reconstruct the past. The work in Huancavelica was intensive. Little was known about what happened in that department, unlike Ayacucho, where …
The CVR and the Concept of Truth
Political actors and opinion columnists who have questioned the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación (CVR) have frequently sought to dismiss it by accusing it …
Memorology
In our context, all the levels that work on Memory typically encompasses are addressed. There is already a series of reconstructions of what happened at the local level (communities), based …
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 …
Legitimacy Is Given by the Victims
Salomón Lerner, who presided over Peru's truth commission, reflects on the eventual creation of a truth commission in Colombia. On August 28, the tenth anniversary of the presentation of 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, …
The Truth Shows Itself Somehow and Sets Things in Their Place
"There has been a great deal of prejudice in the CVR's work, and it continues to exist. There are people who criticize without reading," says Lerner Febres about the final …
The Terror That Does Not End
One of the most striking things when arriving at the Asháninka communities along the Ene and Tambo rivers that were affected by the internal armed conflict is the sense of …
Justice and Human Rights
Alongside truth, justice constitutes another fundamental concept in the drafting and discussion of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación (CVR) that has been questioned …
The Peruvian Justice System, Ten Years After the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The period of political violence and the fight against terrorism left very deep wounds in Peruvian society. The violence affected everyone, including the actors of the justice system, who were …
Dialogues for Peace and for Memory
As Grupo Memoria, we made the decision to open a space for dialogue with one of the most important actors during the internal armed conflict: the Peruvian Army. While "En …