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 Dead Man Who Speaks
On Monday the sentence will be announced that will determine whether or not there were extrajudicial executions during the Chávin de Huántar rescue operation. The case of Eduardo Cruz Sánchez …
Photos: The SIN 'Vultures' in the Chavín de Huántar Operation
More than two thousand photographs taken by members of the Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional before, during, and after Operativo Chavín appear in the case file of the trial being conducted …
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 …
Three More Corpses Exhumed in Huanta
Despite initial difficulties in locating the exact position of the graves due to the scant information available, three more corpses were exhumed yesterday at the Huanta cemetery. This brings the …
Putis: Genocide and Silence - Opinion Column
Putis, a small and extremely poor rural settlement in Huanta, Ayacucho, relives the genocidal horror of the war and of the counter-subversive strategy used against the brutal Shining Path terror …
Chuschi, 16 years of struggle until justice was achieved
"Chuschi: Sixteen Years of Struggle to Achieve Justice" is a compilation of the rulings issued by Peruvian justice in connection with the case of the detention and subsequent disappearance of …
Enforced Disappearance in Peru. Problems and Challenges in the Post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission Justice Process
As the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is aware, the context in which enforced disappearance in Peru is situated is characterized by a structural weakness of the State …
DURING ALAN'S GOVERNMENT MORE PERUVIANS WERE KILLED THAN IN THE WAR WITH CHILE
The Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (Aprodeh) has prepared a preliminary report on all extrajudicial executions, massacres in peasant communities, arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture, and terrorist attacks — both by …
Ombudsman's Report No. 84. DISCOVERY OF GRAVES CONTAINING HUMAN REMAINS IN THE DISTRICT OF VINCHOS
This Ombudsman's Report describes the case of a group of 15 peasants who, in June 1984, were detained and killed in a military operation under suspicion of being terrorists. The …
Ombudsman's Report No. 77: EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS: Cases Investigated by the Ombudsman's Office
This ombudsman's report constitutes a contribution to the process of truth and justice initiated in the country with the delivery of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad …
Violence against girls and boys
Why publish the CVR report on the impact of 20 years of political violence on children in Peru? The answer is simple: no one can doubt that it was precisely …
Forensic Anthropology: A New Horizon in Peru
In Peru, this discipline is a recent field, developed in recent years. And it was not the vigor of forensic or anthropological disciplines that resulted in its emergence, but an …
Forgetting Is Full of Memory. University Youth and Political Violence in Peru: The Massacre of Students at La Cantuta
University thesis to obtain the degree of Bachelor in Anthropology. Advisor: Carlos Iván Degregori. The thesis contributes to the discussion of memories during the political period of Fujimorismo. To this …
Validity of Human Rights During the Government of Alan García (1985–1990)
- Extrajudicial executions in peasant communities. - Massacres in peasant communities. - Enforced disappearances. - Arbitrary detentions and political prisoners. - Torture. - Judicial proceedings for violations committed in earlier …
Report of the Special Rapporteur, Mr. B. W. Ndiaye, on His Mission to Peru from May 24 to June 2, 1993
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 …
THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION UNDER THE FUJIMORI GOVERNMENT
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 …