2009
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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National Criminal Court Issues Troubling Contradictory Verdict In
Judges established that the murder of an elderly woman and the enforced disappearance of a minor in Ayacucho in 1984 was part of a systematic practice of the Peruvian Army, …
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Convicts the Peruvian State in the Santa Bárbara Case
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its judgment on the merits in the case of Santa Bárbara vs. Peru. It condemned the State for the violation of the rights …
Reflections at the Foot of 136 Corpses
In the Los Cabitos barracks in Ayacucho, 59 complete skeletons were found, along with bones corresponding to more than one hundred bodies out of a much larger total number of …
War Orphans Search for Their Relatives Among the Unearthed Mass Graves
According to the CVR report, between 1983 and 1994, the years of greatest violence in the district of Chungui, 1,384 civilians were killed by Sendero Luminoso, ronderos, and security forces. …
Dialogues for Peace and for Memory
As Grupo Memoria, we made the decision to open a space for dialogue with one of the most important actors during the internal armed conflict: the Peruvian Army. While "En …
Reunion with Horror in Peru
Families of victims of Sendero Luminoso and the Army jointly receive exhumed remains in Ayacucho, the epicenter of the bloody war between the State and the terrorists in the 1980s. …
28 YEARS AFTER THE LARGEST MASSACRE, IT STILL HURTS
On December 13, 1984, in the locality of Putis – San José de Secce, the largest massacre recorded during the period of political violence was perpetrated: 123 people were killed …
Eight Bodies of Victims Executed in a Mass Grave Exhumed in Peru
The Peruvian prosecutor's office reported on Friday that the eight bodies exhumed from a mass grave in Huancavelica show signs that the victims were executed, presumably during the conflict that …
The Extrajudicial Executions in Accomarca
The Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación established that on August 14, 1985, an Army patrol belonging to the "Lince" company of Huamanga, under the command …
Santa Bárbara Case
1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CASE. 2. PROCEDURAL DESCRIPTION. 3. OBSERVATION OF THE NEW ORAL TRIAL.
In Honor of Truth
This book recounts a reality that comes from within the Army, a branch of the Armed Forces of Peru, whose members faced the challenge of restoring order and securing peace. …
SHINING PATH: The Crossroads Between Discourse and Reality (1964–1992)
Thesis submitted for the degree of bachelor in history. Index: Introduction; Chapter I. Latin America and its revolutionary struggles; Chapter II. Genesis of a guerrilla: society and politics in Peru …
Unearthing the War's Worst Massacre
The bodies were not difficult to locate, as they lay just below the surface. But the peasants of the southern Peruvian community of Putis had to persevere for 24 years …
Cholified Army: Reflections on the Opening of the Peruvian Army to Popular Sectors
This essay addresses the social democratization of the Peruvian army officer corps. I argue that unlike the other military institutions in the country, the army is the military corporation that …
Death in the Pentagonito
This book recounts events involving Peruvian military personnel and subversives between 1982 and 1993. It is written from their perspective and not from that of their victims. Therefore, it does …
ACTION PLAN FOR HUÁNUCO, Army Killing Allegations
There are at least 24 civilian killings in the Alto Huallaga valley that have been attributed to the Army by human rights NGOs and journalists during an operation that began …
Report of the Investigative Commission on the Events That Occurred in the Town of Cayara-Ayacucho
Regarding the structure of the report that the Commission has wished to present, it first sets out a frame of reference highlighting the main aspects of the subversive phenomenon that …
The Guerrillas in Peru and Their Repression
A book with numerous images and maps, produced by the Ejército del Perú, which denounces the men who were involved in the guerrilla movement and their circle of lawyers, union …