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.
Testimony collected in Sicuani in October 2002 documenting the mistreatment and torture suffered by a detainee in Yanamayo prison, located in Puno. The declarant narrates the conditions of humiliation and physical and psychological mistreatment he experienced during his imprisonment in this maximum security penitentiary. This testimony is part of the …
Supreme Decree No. 01-95, promulgated on January 6, 1995, prohibited the public presentation of those detained for terrorism. This measure was part of the set of anti-terrorist norms implemented during the government of Alberto Fujimori, specifically during his first presidential term (1990-1995). The decree was part of the emergency legislation …
On April 19, 1989, combined Army and police forces carried out a simultaneous raid on the universities of San Marcos and La Cantuta in Lima. More than 500 students were arrested during the operation. This operation was part of the counter-subversive strategy of the APRA government in a context of …
On June 18, 1986, detainees held for terrorism in three prisons in Lima and Callao (Lurigancho, El Frontón and Santa Bárbara) rioted. In Santa Barbara prison, two subversives died on June 19. The government ordered the Joint Command to have the military justice system carry out the necessary investigations to …
GR soldiers kill three wounded detainees (Rousell Wensjoe, Amílcar Urbay and Carlos Alcántara), who were hospitalized in the Huamanga Hospital. This constituted a serious violation of human rights and generated protests. The burial of Carlos Alcántara was significant, his coffin was covered with the flag of the PCP-SL.
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In 1994, Aureliano Leiva Barboza hired Edwin Vásquez Entrega (18) in the city of Andahuaylas to work on his farm in Alto Yumnaki. Vásquez worked there from March to July …
The report is divided into seven parts. The first presents general observations about innocent persons in prison and about the inhumane conditions in prisons. The second part deals with the …
Reality and Promise. Counter-insurgency dictatorship. Economic and social rights. Political will. Impunity. The detained-disappeared and extrajudicial executions. Respect for human rights as a situational tactic. The United States Government and …
