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.
On March 12, 1993, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a Special Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Peru. The report noted that especially during the first year of the government of former President Alberto Fujimori, 375 forced disappearances of persons had been reported, of which 236 …
On July 16, 1985, the Working Commission on Involuntary Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights arrived in Lima. This visit took place in a context where Amnesty International had distributed a communiqué in January of that year stating that more than a thousand people had disappeared …
On July 7, 1985, mass graves were found in the community of Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. Around August 16, 1984, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of Pucayacu. On August 22, 1984, …
The UN Working Commission on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances visited Lima in the context of serious allegations of human rights violations in Peru's emergency zones. During this visit, human rights organizations filed complaints with the international commission. This visit came at a critical moment, a few months before Amnesty International …
Amnesty International (AI) filed a formal complaint about the situation of forced disappearances in Peru. The international human rights organization stated that more than a thousand people had disappeared in the emergency zone. In addition, they denounced that hundreds of people were killed and tortured by the forces of law …
On January 22, 1985, Amnesty International distributed a communiqué in London stating that more than 1,000 people had disappeared in the last two years in Peru's declared emergency zone. The report added that hundreds of others were killed in detention, often after being tortured. The international organization held the PCP-SL …
In October 1984, new mass graves were found in emergency zones of Peru. This discovery took place in a context of escalating violence and successive reports of forced disappearances. The discovery of these mass graves caused a commotion in the political circles of the country. This event was added to …
In 1983, some twenty women relatives of the disappeared, including sons, husbands, fathers and brothers, decided to create the National Association of Relatives of the Detained, Disappeared in Emergency Zones (ANFASEP) based in Ayacucho. This organization emerged as a response to the forced disappearances that occurred in the context of …
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