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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Until We Find Them! Progress and Challenges in the Search for the Disappeared. Comparative Experiences - Chile, Peru, El Salvador, and Sri Lanka
This publication is the second in a series whose other components are the Rapporteurship Reports 'Forced Disappearance—State Commitments' (January 2017) and 'Forensic, Humanitarian, and Judicial Challenges in the Recovery and …
Hatun Willakuy. Abbreviated Version of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation
The content of this publication is a translation of the Abbreviated Version of the Peruvian Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission first published in Spanish in February 2004. …
The Voices of Victims of the Los Cabitos Military Barracks
Most complaints of disappearance and torture in the department of Ayacucho date from 1983 and 1984; however, only those concerning the first of those years have advanced far enough to …
Cabitos 83 Case: An Encounter with Justice?
During 1983 and 1984, Ayacucho witnessed thousands of detentions and disappearances. During curfew, combined patrols moved through the streets breaking down doors, entering homes, and detaining hundreds of people, who …
The General's Labyrinth
Twenty-two years after the murder of the eight journalists in Uchuraccay — deaths that were wrongly attributed for years to a decision by General Clemente Noel — Judge Ayala of …
The Serious Human Rights Violations During Alberto Fujimori's Term (1990–2000)
Among the cases of serious violations of fundamental rights documented by the CVR during the years in which Alberto Fujimori was president are: torture and enforced disappearances, the extrajudicial execution …
Ayacucho, Yawar Destiny. Notes of Nostalgia (1980-2004)
Peru called elections for the first time in twelve years in 1980. Sendero Luminoso was one of the few leftist groups that did not take part and instead chose to …
Manual for Effective Investigation upon Discovery of Mass Graves with Human Remains in Peru
The manual consists of three parts. 1. Normative instruments and procedures for forensic intervention. 2. Documents and proposals for the development of forensic investigations in Peru. 3. Comparative experiences with …
García Owes Peru More Disappeared Than the Bloodthirsty Fujimori
Now that Peru is preparing to close its wounds by confronting the past through a Truth Commission, it is necessary to remember the entire history — complete and without censorship. …
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 …
COMPLAINT AND REPORTS ON THE CAYARA CASE
Complaint by the CIDH against the State of Peru in the CAYARA case. On February 14, 1992, the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos submitted to the Corte Interamericana de Derechos …
The Crimes of Shining Path in Ayacucho
This report constitutes a complaint against Sendero Luminoso filed by the Ayacuchan congressman Alberto Valencia Cárdenas before the United Nations Human Rights Commission, headquartered in Geneva. Reading it constitutes a …
Development and Violence in Ayacucho
For over a decade, the word Ayacucho has been synonymous, among Peruvians, with violence and terror. We often forget that the form in which it manifests itself today has been …
Peruvian Government Rejects the Cayara Massacre Report
This cable deals with the problems surrounding the investigation into the Cayara massacre, including conflicting testimony. Based on information from an Embassy source and other reliable information, the document draws …
Ayacucho, Blood and Misery. Second Edition
It is hoped that this work on the department of Ayacucho will serve to understand the Sendero Luminoso phenomenon and the repression itself unleashed under the pretext of that movement's …
Our Civil War. Ayacucho 80
We can characterize this war in a thousand ways: as a clash of ideologies, a tragic dispute between misguided dreamers and conformists, a struggle between strata of a society in …
Local District Attorneys Charge Marine Infantry Commander Over Ayala Disappearance and Evangelical Murder Cases
The U.S. Embassy describes the criminal charges filed against Commander Alvaro Artaza Adrianzén (better known by his war name "Comandante Camión"), former head of the Navy garrison in Huanta. The …