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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The capture of Abimael Guzmán. Part 7
The capture of Abimael Guzmán. Part 8
The capture of Abimael Guzmán. Part 6
The capture of Abimael Guzmán. Part 1
The capture of Abimael Guzmán. Part 2
The capture of Abimael Guzmán. Parts 3-4
The capture of Abimael Guzmán. Part 5
1994
Presentation of alleged subversive Herminio Zea Fernández at DINCOTE headquarters
1994
Presentation of alleged Shining Path members at DINCOTE headquarters
1993
Press presentation of María Elena Loayza and Angelina Torres
1993
Presentation at DINCOTE of Edmundo Cox Beuzeville, Shining Path member
1992
Elena Iparraguirre, member of the Shining Path Central Committee, is presented to the press
1992
Shining Path supreme leader Abimael Guzmán Reinoso is presented to the press
1992
Elena Iparraguirre is presented to the press in the DINCOTE courtyard
1992
Lawyer Martha Huatay is photographed at the National Counter-Terrorism Directorate
News flash on the capture of Abimael Guzmán Reynoso
1992
ABIMAEL GUZMÁN, PRISONER
Documents 16
Ketín Vidal's Version
The capture of Guzmán, Montesinos's reaction, and lessons for the present. "Do not let time erase memories," requests retired PNP General Antonio Ketín Vidal Herrera (68). The successes of 1992, …
The Hunt for the Big-Cheek
The protagonists of the arrest of Abimael Guzmán Reinoso narrate in the following chronicle how a small group of police officers, in a short period of three years, managed to …
Cantoral Benavides Case: Survival in the Search for Justice
The Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, in its ruling issued on August 18, 2000, in the case of Luis Alberto Cantoral Benavides against Peru, declared as proven facts that he …
The Terrorist the Government Released
In 1996, the Fujimori regime returned to Japan Kazue Yoshimura, a member of the Japanese Red Army — a major terrorist organization — who had been arrested by the DINCOTE …
Who Is the Real Lori?
Told this way, the story cannot help but inspire sympathy. The brilliant student from the exclusive Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), altruistic and committed, concerned about Latin America's dispossessed, was …
The Capture in a New Light
Six years after the capture of Abimael Guzmán, with new written and oral testimonies emerging, the spotlight of history can be turned on the circumstances surrounding the capture of Abimael …
Mass Detention of Residents of the Alto Yurinaqui Native Community - Report
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 …
Is Shining Path Coming Back?
In recent months the problem of subversion has again occupied center stage in the media. The reason: the explosions of two car bombs in Lima during the national holidays—the first …
The Honorable Schoolboy. Ketín Vidal, a Hardworking Provincial Student Who Becomes the Most Popular Chief the National Police Has Ever Had
The news of the appointment of General Ketín Vidal as head of the Policía Nacional came as a pleasant surprise to all sides. A source close to the Palace told …
Warning Signal - Undertow
By midweek, Dincote's operational units had been virtually reconstituted, with a significant numerical reinforcement to the Delta groups and new logistics in communications, transportation, and intelligence resources both in Lima …
The Taking of the Embassy
Congressman Javier Diez Canseco bought the Christmas tree his wife had been persistently asking for, left it at home, and headed out to an event at a human rights organization. …
Lori's Father Speaks
Mark Berenson has been a statistics professor for 26 years. Months after the birth of his second daughter, Laurie, and during the Vietnam War, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. …
The Failures of the SIN - Opinion Column
According to the pro-government newspaper Expreso, the attack on congressman Víctor Joy Way was planned and directed by "the general." Others believe, however, that the perpetrator was a major. And …
Shining Path Attacks Military Club
The dissident faction of the guerrilla organization Sendero Luminoso today resumed its offensive in the capital, with a car bomb attack against the headquarters of the Air Force Officers' Club. …
The Plans of the PCP Shining Path
According to the conception of the terrorist leader of the PSP-SL, Abimael Guzmán, alias "comrade Gonzalo", his Strategic Development Plan is based fundamentally on axes, sub-axes, lines of direction and …