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.
In January 1988, several individuals, including Armando Huamantingo Villanueva and members of the Niño de Guzmán family, were arbitrarily detained by the military in Apurímac, Peru. The detentions were followed by torture and forced disappearances, with some bodies later found in mass graves. Military authorities issued false communiqués about clashes …
In 1987, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a resolution on the disappearance of journalist Jaime Boris Ayala Sulca, recommending that the Peruvian government complete judicial investigations and punish those responsible. The IACHR considered that the facts constituted serious human rights violations. The case was included in the IACHR's …
In 1986, in the Cangallo Barracks, there were disappearances and arbitrary executions of people suspected of narcoterrorism. One incident involved a captain nicknamed 'Boa', who during an interrogation caused the death of a woman and a man. The bodies were dismembered and carried away in sacks by a patrol, while …
In 1983, an individual was arrested in Canaria and transferred to Ayacucho, where he was held in PIP facilities and subjected to torture. Despite his family's attempts to stop the transfer and ask for his release, the authorities did not heed their requests. This case is part of a broader …
In 1983, in the town of Cangallo, Ayacucho, the military detained 13 people during an assembly in the town square, accusing them of collaborating with Shining Path members. One of the detainees was later found dead with signs of torture. Despite the family's attempts to denounce the incident, the authorities …
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A delegation from the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances will carry out an official visit to Peru from June 1st to 10th, 2015, to gather information …
The trial began in 2005 against the entire senior staff of the Huamanga military barracks for the death and disappearance of more than 50 people in 1983. The refusal of …
After thirty years, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances returned to the area of the ovens, the fuel tank, and the clandestine graves adjacent to the well-known military …
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 …
Background and justification of La Hoyada as a "Sanctuary in Memory of the Victims of Violence"
Peru's Sala Penal Nacional today acquitted former senior commanders of the Peruvian Army who had been accused of the enforced disappearance of three people in 1990, in the context of …
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, faced with the widespread practice of forced disappearances of persons in Latin American countries during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, primarily promoted by dictatorial …
Hatun Willakuy reproduces the main ideas and findings of the Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR). It was prepared by the CVR's Handover Commission, commissioned by …
The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has expressed on numerous occasions, in his reports to the Commission on Human Rights, his concern over the persistent and serious …
