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.
A female affiant recounts the disappearance of her son in Putaqa, district of San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in December 2002. The mother expresses the anguish and uncertainty characteristic of relatives of the disappeared, expressing thoughts such as "suddenly he will be …
During December 2002, the TRC collected multiple testimonies in Ayacucho on various events of violence that occurred during the internal armed conflict. The testimonies include accounts of forced disappearances, assassinations and other acts of violence perpetrated by both subversive groups and State agents. The affidavants and declarants recounted events that …
A respondent recounts the disappearance of her son and husband in Putaqa, San Miguel, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony reflects the profound emotional and psychological impact of these disappearances on the affiant's life. The woman describes how the loss of her family members has left her in a situation of …
The declarants narrate the disappearance of a family member in San José de Seques, Ayacucho, which occurred in December 2002. The testimony reflects the uncertainty and pain that characterizes cases of forced disappearance. The relatives express the anguish of not knowing if the disappeared person is alive or dead, while …
The affiant recounts the disappearance of his son in Patas, Curahuasi, Apurimac. The testimony was collected in Lima in December 2002. The father expresses the uncertainty and anguish characteristic of the relatives of the disappeared, stating: "Suddenly any night now he will come back", I just stop thinking. Then I …
A declarant gives testimony before the TRC narrating the disappearance of her son in the city of Lima. The testimony reflects the deep pain and emotional suffering caused by the disappearance. The affiant mentions that out of grief and rage she took to drinking and from that moment on she …
Testimony collected at CVR Headquarters in November 2002. The affiant narrates the disappearance of her husband in San Carlos, Huancavelica. The testimony is part of an analysis of coca and alcohol consumption as coping mechanisms in the face of traumatic experiences of violence. The affiant recounts how these practices intensified …
A woman testified before the TRC about the disappearance of her first and second husband in La Morada, Marañon, Huanuco. The testimony is part of the documentation of cases of forced disappearance that occurred during the internal armed conflict in the Huanuco region. The witness recounted the circumstances in which …
The affiant recounts the disappearance of her husband in San Carlos, Huancavelica. This testimony was collected in November 2002 in Huancayo. The case is one of many testimonies of forced disappearances that occurred during the internal armed conflict in Peru. The disappearance of her husband left the affiant in a …
A female affiant testified before the TRC in November 2002 narrating the disappearance of two members of her family in Venenillo, Tingo Maria, Huanuco. The testimony describes the psychological impact of these disappearances, manifesting itself in memory and concentration problems. The witness relates how she was mentally invaded by these …
The declarant gave testimony before the CVR narrating the disappearance of his nephew in the locality of Acco, Tambo District, La Mar Province, Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in November 2002 in Ayacucho. This case is part of the numerous testimonies documented by the TRC on forced disappearances that occurred …
A woman narrates the disappearance of her first and second husband in La Morada, district of Marañon, department of Huanuco. The testimony was collected in November 2002 by the CVR. This case illustrates the situation of multiple losses suffered by some people during the internal armed conflict, losing more than …
The affiant recounts the disappearance of his nephew in Acco, Tambo district, La Mar province, Ayacucho department. This testimony was collected in November 2002 in Ayacucho. The case is part of the numerous events of forced disappearance that occurred in the area during the internal armed conflict. The disappearance left …
A witness told the CVR about the disappearance of her husband in San Carlos, Huancavelica. The testimony was collected in November 2002 at the Central Regional Headquarters. This case is part of the testimonies on forced disappearances that represented 18.70% of the facts reported to the TRC. Most of the …
The affiant recounts the disappearance of her husband in San Carlos, Huancavelica. The testimony was collected at the Central Headquarters in November 2002. This case is part of the numerous testimonies of forced disappearances documented by the CVR in the region of Huancavelica during the internal armed conflict.
The affiant recounts the disappearance of her husband in the district of Ayna, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony reflects the anguish and uncertainty characteristic of cases of forced disappearance, where family members are uncertain whether the person is alive or dead. The witness expresses the need to know the truth …
A mother recounts the disappearance of her son in Pacopacuni, province of Carabaya, department of Puno. The testimony was collected in Sicuani in October 2002. The case is part of the numerous testimonies of forced disappearances documented by the CVR in the southern Andean region of the country.
Testimony of a mother who narrates the disappearance of her son in Pacopacuni, province of Carabaya, department of Puno. The testimony was collected in Sicuani in October 2002. This case is part of the testimonies documented by the CVR on forced disappearances during the internal armed conflict in Peru. The …
The witness recounts the disappearance of her brother in San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in October 2002 as part of the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The declarant expresses feelings of incomprehension in the face of the violent events that …
A declarant told the CVR about the disappearance of her brother in San Miguel, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in October 2002 in Ayacucho. This case is part of the numerous testimonies of forced disappearances that occurred in the province of La Mar during the internal armed conflict. …
During September 2002, the TRC collected multiple testimonies in the department of Huanuco on various acts of violence that occurred during the internal armed conflict. The testimonies include cases of forced disappearances, murders and sexual violence perpetrated mainly by State agents. Among the documented cases is the testimony of the …
A declarant testified before the CVR about the disappearance of one of her brothers and the murder of two other brothers. The violent events occurred in the locality of El Arabe, in the province of J. Crespo y Castillo, department of Huánuco. The testimony was collected in 2002 as part …
A resident of Torero, Sivia, Ayacucho, tells of PCP-SL incursions into his community. During these events, he suffered the disappearance of his father and brother. The testimony was collected in October 2002 and is part of the documented cases of political violence in the Apurimac and Ene River Valley (VRAE). …
On April 13, 2000, the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concluded that the Peruvian State, through police officers from the district of Chuschi supported by military personnel from the Pampa Cangallo Military Base, detained Manuel Pacotaype Chaupín, Martín Cayllahua Galindo, Marcelo Cabana Tucno and Isaías Huamán Vila on March …
The Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons (OAS, 1994) was approved by the Peruvian State through Legislative Resolution 27622 dated January 5, 2000. This convention is part of the international instruments for the protection of human rights ratified by Peru. It was officially published in the Official Gazette El …
On April 13, 1999, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued Report No. 54/99 on Case No. 10,879, concluding that members of the Peruvian Army arbitrarily detained seven citizens of the town of Huancapi, Ayacucho, on April 19, 1991. The Commission recommended that the Peruvian government conclude the judicial investigations …
A 15-year-old girl was detained at her school and never returned home, constituting a case of forced disappearance. The case is mentioned in the context of sexual violence that occurred during arbitrary detentions and forced disappearances. The affiant providing the testimony relates this case as an example of the disappearances …
On November 3, 1997, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in the Ernesto Castillo-Páez case, ruling that Peru violated the right to life, liberty and personal integrity, judicial protection and failed to comply with its obligations to respect and guarantee the rights of Ernesto Castillo-Páez, who had …
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the Peruvian State for the detention and disappearance of Ernesto Castillo-Páez, affirming that Articles 4 (right to life), 5 (right to personal integrity), 7 (right to personal liberty) and 25 (judicial protection) of the American Convention, all in relation to Article 1, paragraph …
The skeletal remains of some thirty people, showing signs of torture, were found in a spot in the Ullta ravine on the Carhuaz-Chacas highway (Ancash). The discovery of these clandestine graves is evidence of extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances that occurred in the area during the internal armed conflict.
In 1995, the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, Francis Deng, visited the Asháninka area to report on their situation. That same year, the National Human Rights Coordinator published a report on the disappearance of Asháninka communities. During the internal armed conflict, out of 55,000 Asháninka, nearly 10,000 were forcibly displaced …
On October 10, 1994, the Supreme Council of Military Justice confirmed the resolution of July 23, 1992 of the Permanent War Council of the Second Judicial Zone of the Army that dismissed the case in Case No. 1786-91 against Sub Lieutenant Chavez and 'those responsible', considering that there was no …
Javier Roca Casas, student at the University of Callao and press and propaganda secretary of the Federated Center, disappeared near his home. Members of the Navy acknowledged that on that day they carried out a search operation in the area, although they did not acknowledge having detained Javier Roca.
In July 1993, 4 graves with human remains were found in Cieneguilla, thanks to a report made to the weekly SI. The remains belonged to nine students and a professor of La Cantuta University who had disappeared in July of the previous year (1992). This discovery confirmed the massacre perpetrated …
National Prosecutor Blanca Nélida Colán traveled to Huancayo in July 1993 to investigate the disappearances of 89 students, including 20 university students. These students were kidnapped by alleged paramilitaries in the context of the political violence affecting the region. The prosecutor's investigation took place at a time of intense repression …
Milagro Flor Túpac Gonzáles, a Social Work student, was taken from her home in the early morning of February 12, 1993 by a group of hooded men. Her whereabouts were never known, despite her father's efforts to locate her. Her father went to all police and military offices, filed complaints …
On December 18, 1992, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by resolution 47/133 the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. This Declaration reinforced the character of enforced disappearance as an international crime, establishing that it constitutes a violation of the norms of international law guaranteeing fundamental …
Unidentified soldiers detain the economics student Keneth Anzualdo Castro in the bus in which he was traveling from his home to the University of Callao. To this day he is still missing. This case represents one of the forced disappearances of university students.
On November 5, 1992, Juan Maya Montoya was arrested in the district of Chalhuanca, province of Aimaraes, department of Apurimac, when he went to receive his salary. A combination of the army and the police took him to DINCOTE where he was disappeared without giving any reason to his family. …
Justiniano Fredy Vicente Rivera disappeared on September 7, 1992. Twenty days after his disappearance, his body was found floating in the irrigation canal near the 'Cahuide' tap, near the university town. His body had a severed jugular vein and his knees were badly bruised.
In the early morning of July 18, 1992, nine students (Juan Gabriel Mariño, Bertila Lozano Torres, Dora Oyague Fierro, Robert Teodoro Espinoza, Marcelino Rosales Cárdenas, Felipe Flores Chipana, Luis Enrique Ortiz Perea, Armando Amaro Cóndor and Heráclides Pablo Meza) and professor Hugo Muñoz Sánchez, were kidnapped from the University Housing …
Between the last hours of July 17 and the early morning of July 18, 1992, members of the Colina Detachment in coordination with members of the military base located at La Cantuta University broke into the university housing. In the presence of fifty witnesses, they kidnapped nine students and one …
On July 18, 1992, students from the Enrique Guzmán y Valle National University of Education, known as La Cantuta, disappeared. This event occurred in a context of intensifying political violence in the country, a few months after the self-coup of April 5, 1992. The disappearance occurred during the period of …
On July 18, 1992, the Colina group perpetrated the disappearance of nine students and a professor from the Enrique Guzmán y Valle "La Cantuta" University. The victims were later murdered and their bodies dismembered. This case became one of the most brutal acts committed by the Colina group during 1992, …
There was a military raid on the student residence of the Enrique Guzmán y Valle University that ended with the kidnapping and disappearance of nine students and a professor. This operation was carried out by a group of SIE agents not stationed in the area and directed from the SIN, …
Two days after the Tarata attack, the kidnapping and disappearance of the professor and 9 students of La Cantuta took place. Monsignor Jose Dammert, in his homily for national holidays, referred to the terrible wave of violence and proposed the implementation of sensible military measures that would not lead to …
Nine students and a professor of La Cantuta University were arrested in a military intervention carried out at night on the campus of that university. After the arrest, all the victims disappeared. The intervention was carried out by military personnel and the whereabouts of the detainees were not subsequently known, …
On July 18, 1992, a military raid on the student residence of the Enrique Guzmán y Valle University (La Cantuta) ended with the kidnapping and disappearance of nine students and a professor of the university. This event occurred in the context of the state of emergency and the intensification of …
The Colina Group carried out the kidnapping and disappearance of a professor and nine students from La Cantuta in July 1992. This event occurred in the context of the military polarization that followed the coup d'état of April 5, 1992 and was part of the selective assassinations carried out by …
Members of the Colina Detachment are responsible for the disappearance and subsequent execution of 9 students and a professor of the Enrique Guzmán y Valle University, known as La Cantuta. The victims were kidnapped at night on the university campus itself, which was guarded by a military detachment that had …
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