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.
EP Lieutenant Colonel Julio Alberto Rodríguez Córdova testified before the Second Permanent Court of the Army's Second Judicial Zone about the detention operation of María Magdalena Monteza Benavides on October 30, 1992. In his statement, Rodriguez Cordova affirmed that he had authorization from the Command to carry out the operation …
The 44th Provincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office of Lima issued a resolution on May 2, 1995 regarding the complaint of rape filed by María Magdalena Monteza Benavides against military personnel. The resolution closed the investigation, considering that the military jurisdiction was not competent to hear the crime of rape since it …
On October 21, 1994, the War Chamber of the Supreme Council of Military Justice closed the Barrios Altos case against Generals Pedro Villanueva Valdivia, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos, Juan Nolberto Rivera Lazo and Vladimiro Montesinos Torres, without further investigation. The decision was confirmed on October 28, 1994 by the …
On October 10, 1994, the Supreme Council of Military Justice confirmed the resolution of July 23, 1992 of the Permanent War Council of the Second Judicial Zone of the Army that dismissed the case in Case No. 1786-91 against Sub Lieutenant Chavez and 'those responsible', considering that there was no …
The War Chamber of the Supreme Council of Military Justice issued a sentence absolving Commander Raúl Valverde Añorga of the crime of Negligence and sentencing José Emilio Campos Chira for the offense of Disobedience, for which the possibility of imposing a sentence had already expired, and Víctor Vargas Giraldés for …
On February 21, 1994, the War Chamber of the Supreme Council of Military Justice issued a sentence in joined cases 157-93 and 8841-93 against officers and subalterns of the Peruvian Army for the kidnapping, disappearance and execution of the nine students and the teacher from La Cantuta. Major Santiago Martin …
The government enacted the so-called 'Cantuta Law', according to which jurisdictional disputes are understood to be resolved with a simple majority. In practice, this paralyzed the new vote on jurisdiction in the La Cantuta case and the case went directly to military jurisdiction, favoring the impunity of those responsible.
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, made up of five justices, did not reach the four votes required by its Organic Law to resolve a jurisdictional dispute over the La Cantuta case. The vote was three to two in favor of the military jurisdiction. A second vote was then …
Ms. Montenegro was arrested in 1993 and subsequently sentenced to 15 years in prison in the military courts. Her case is mentioned in the context of testimonies about sexual violence and torture that occurred in the DINCOTE (National Directorate against Terrorism) during the period of the internal armed conflict. The …
Decree Law 25708 of December 10, 1992 regulated the procedures in trials for treason crimes. It established that the summary procedure of the Code of Military Justice would be applied for trials in theaters of operations, granting the military judge a maximum period of ten calendar days to develop the …
The Permanent War Council of the Second Judicial Zone of the Army issued a sentence acquitting Lieutenant Javier Bendezú Vargas of the crime of aggravated homicide, sentencing him for abuse of authority with aggravating circumstance of falsehood to 18 months of imprisonment and 500 nuevos soles of civil reparation. It …
Decree Law 25744 established rules applicable during the police investigation of the crime of treason. This norm established an unconstitutional extension of the term of police detention, prescribing that the National Police of Peru could carry out preventive detention of the presumed implicated for a term longer than fifteen days, …
Decree Law No. 25708, enacted on September 10, 1992, established the procedural rules for the crime of treason. This norm was part of the set of anti-terrorist legislation enacted after the coup d'état of April 1992. The decree was part of a legislative scheme that granted broad powers to police …
Decree Law No. 25659 of August 13, 1992 created the crime of treason, denaturalizing its traditional conception and limiting it to a legal denomination of the aggravated type of the crime of terrorism. The law established that treason is committed by those who use car bombs, explosive devices or weapons …
On June 21, 1986, the Government officially admitted the possibility that excessive use of force had been committed in the Lurigancho prison and informed that it had ordered the Military Court to investigate these events, following complaints by Senator Javier Diez Canseco and the media about extrajudicial executions.
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