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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A day in memory - Blog
Sterilized and forgotten (first part). Report
Secret sterilisation in Peru
2004
FEMMES DU MONDE. Hilaria Supa
2004
FEMMES DU MONDE
2004
Femmes du Monde. Victoria Mejilla
2004
Femmes du Monde. Antonia Calderon
2004
FEMMES DU MONDE. Sabina Ulca
2004
FEMMES DU MONDE. I will never be able to have children again.
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN, La Esperanza, Chavín Region (2)
1998
TUBAL LIGATION. Huansancos
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN, LA ESPERANZA, CHAVÍN REGION
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN. Julcán, La Libertad
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN. Yarinacocha, Coronel Portillo
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN. Yanaoca, Cusco
1998
TUBAL LIGATION CAMPAIGN. San Ramón, Chanchamayo
1984
The Putis massacre
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Forced Sterilizations in Peru: Women Await Justice. Although Impunity Borders on Crimes Against Humanity
The allegations of forced sterilizations made by various women and organizations in Peru over these years take on special significance in the efforts of a group of twelve Quechua-speaking peasant …
The Displaced People of Ayacucho Remain Trapped in Their Memories
On May 17, 1980, in Chuschi, Ayacucho, terror was born. In this province whose Quechua name means 'corner of the dead,' the number of those killed and disappeared approaches 26,000, …
TESTIMONIES OF FORCED STERILIZATIONS
Our virtual library www.genocidioayacucho.com contains many articles related to Fujimori's genocidal campaign to reduce the indigenous population. The number of women forced into sterilization exceeded 250,000. Here we present some …
EVIDENCE THAT FUJIMORI DID NOT PROMOTE A FAMILY PLANNING CAMPAIGN BUT A METHOD TO ELIMINATE THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION
Fujimori's false rhetoric, claiming that his family planning program would give indigenous people access to the same contraceptive methods as wealthy families in Lima, was simply a campaign to permanently …
FORCED STERILIZATIONS AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
The lawyer from the "Movimiento Manuela Ramos," Rocío Villanueva, now director of IDEHPUCP, was in charge of investigating forced sterilizations as an official of the Defensoría del Pueblo. From her …
TWO VIDEOS IN ENGLISH ON FORCED STERILIZATION IN PERU
PERU: FUJIMORI'S FORCED STERILIZATION CAMPAIGN. (Insight News TV. 11'40'') http://www.insightnewstv.com/d68/ SECRET STERILIZATION- PERU (Journeyman Pictures. 28'43'') http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv9GtGl4Odk This is an impressive TV document which shows crude testimonies of victims, government …
THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT RECONCILIATION
It seems incredible, but there is a powerful sector of our society that does not want reconciliation between the State and the victims of the genocide. What do these people …
Prosecutor Issues Charges Against 29 Soldiers Accused of Murdering 69 Peasants from Accomarca
Requests 25 years in prison for the perpetrators of an execrable crime and 14 million soles in reparations for victims. The prosecutor of the third superior criminal chamber of Lima, …
U.S. Agencies Involved in Forced Sterilization of Peru's Poor
Amid ever-increasing evidence of coercive government population control efforts and sterilization campaigns in Peru, the Latin American Alliance for the Family (ALAFA) has called for the U.S. government to withdraw …
GENOCIDE OR "VICTIMS OF THE ARMED CONFLICT"?
Calling what happened in Peru between 1980 and 2000 genocide is not politically or socially correct. We understand that State institutions avoid this term since they were partly responsible for …
INTERVIEW WITH GIULIA TAMAYO
A crime that has been overlooked by Peruvian authorities when trying former president Alberto Fujimori for human rights violations is that of the forced sterilizations promoted and carried out during …
BLATANT GENOCIDE
For American researcher Jocelyn E. Getgen of Cornell University, there is no doubt: the forced sterilizations perpetrated during the government of Alberto Fujimori, which violated more than 200,000 indigenous, Quechua-speaking, …
THE TWO FACES OF CIPRIANI
Cardinal Cipriani opposes the morning-after pill, but did not protest the forced sterilization program of 250,000 women ordered by Fujimori
Did You Know That Fujimori Ordered the Forced Sterilization of Around 300,000 Women, Mostly Indigenous?
The Fujimori government organized a campaign to forcibly sterilize women, most of them indigenous Quechua-speaking women. Deception and threats were employed. This crime is considered genocide by experts in International …
Fujimorismo and Mass Sterilizations
A thesis recently presented at the Universidad Católica reminds us of what Fujimorism in power represented. It is a sharp analysis of the development of state policies of mass sterilization …
Untold Truths. The Exclusion of Forced Sterilizations from the Final Report of the Peruvian Truth Commission
This article argues that the exclusion of forced sterilization cases from the investigation and Final Report of the Truth Commission effectively erases state responsibility, and significantly reduces the possibilities of …
UNTOLD TRUTHS: THE EXCLUSION OF FORCED STERILIZATIONS FROM THE FINAL REPORT OF THE PERUVIAN TRUTH COMMISSION
This article argues that the exclusion of forced sterilization cases from the investigation and Final Report of the Truth Commission effectively erases State responsibility and significantly reduces the prospects for …
HUMAN RIGHTS, REPRODUCTIVE INEQUALITIES (Translation)
Excerpt from the book "Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits" by Steven W. Mosher. Available at http://www.pop.org/20090123819/human-rights-reproductive-wrongs. The sterilization campaign had begun the previous year. President Alberto Fujimori, elected to …
Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Truth Commission's Final Report
This prestigious law journal from Boston College criticizes the omission in the CVR report of the Family Planning Program implemented by the Fujimori government, which forced the sterilization of 200,000 …
Relatives of Putis Massacre Still Demand Justice
Despite eight years having passed since the Ministerio Público began investigations into the Putis massacre, which occurred in 1984 in Ayacucho, the Fiscalía Penal Supranacional of that region has not …
Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Peruvian Truth Commission's Final Report
ABSTRACT This Article argues that the exclusion of enforced sterilization cases from the Peruvian Truth Commission's (CVR's) investigation and Final Report effectively erases state responsibility and greatly decreases the likelihood …
Genocide and Impunity
The genocides perpetrated in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s were not accidental or the acts of a few wayward elements of the armed forces and police, as the governments …
105 Bodies Delivered to Families Today
Starting at 9:00 this morning, the Ministerio Público will proceed with the handover of 105 bodies that were exhumed in the district of Santo Tomás de Pata, province of Angaraes, …
I KNOW STERILIZATION WAS PERFORMED
This was revealed through the testimonies of affected women. The special prosecutor's office cannot archive the reported cases. NGOs will appeal the decision because crimes against humanity cannot be subject …
More on Forced Sterilizations
Continuing from the last post on the topic of the genocide of sterilizations, which already contains links to various materials on the subject, in this post I compile additional links …
The Genocide of Sterilizations
A brilliant analysis by the author on forced sterilizations in Peru and their international repercussions.
CVR MINI-BOOKLETS ON FORCED STERILIZATIONS
Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Forced Sterilizations from the CVR. This is the title of Jocelyn E. Getgen's article "Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Peruvian Truth …
Barren Beliefs: The Sterilization Campaign and Contraception in Peru
The translation of this article also appears in our Hemeroteca under the title "Sterile Beliefs: Sterilization and Contraception in Peru." This paper examines the sociocultural ramifications of a government-mandated sterilization …
Fujimori: Only 180 Complained (III)
While sheltered in his golden refuge in Tokyo, former dictator Alberto Fujimori emphatically denied that 300,000 forced sterilizations had been registered during his government because, by his own reckoning, "only …
FUJIMORI BEHAVED LIKE A HEROD
It is the outcry of the women sterilized in the Asháninka native community, decimated by "family planning."
Peru Carried Out 250,000 Forced Sterilizations in the Fujimori Era
In the 1990s, the government of Alberto Fujimori launched a Family Planning program for birth control, using various contraceptive methods, including voluntary surgical sterilization, which resulted in 270,000 sterilizations, the …
Forced Sterilization, Another Crime of Fujimori
More than 250,000 cases in a "campaign" where officials were threatened with dismissal if they did not meet "their quota." The former Minister of Health, Fernando Carbone, confirmed that, according …
The Massacre at "El Frontón"
On June 19, 1986, the most sinister extermination operation took place in the prisons of El Frontón, Lurigancho, and Santa Bárbara. 254 inmates were extrajudicially executed. The rioters denounced an …
Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Population Politics in Peru under Alberto Fujimori
The translation of this article appears in our Hemeroteca under the title: FREE CHOICE OR POVERTY RELIEF? POPULATION POLICIES IN ALBERTO FUJIMORI'S PERU. In 1995, the Peruvian government of Alberto …
The Genocide of the Quechua in Peru between 1980 and 1992
Genocide is the systematic killing of an ethnic or racial group by members of another group or race. Between 1980 and 1993, indigenous people (particularly Quechua speakers) experienced genocide carried …
The Most Dangerous Madman in America
The prison holding Abimael Guzmán, founder of the bloodthirsty Maoist guerrilla Sendero Luminoso, whose trial began 15 days ago in Peru, was built especially for him and is the most …
ACCOMARCA Case: Chronology
Gloria Cano, legal representative of APRODEH, confirmed the filing of a complaint by prosecutor Cristina Olazábal against Alan García Pérez and other senior military commanders for the murder and genocide …
FORCED STERILIZATION IN PERU
In Peru, between 1995 and 2000, the second government of former President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori launched an aggressive nationwide sterilization campaign aimed, in effect, at preventing births in the poorest …
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
POOR ILLITERATES OF INDIGENOUS ORIGIN, THEY WERE MANIPULATED AND OPERATED ON WILLINGLY OR BY FORCE. TODAY THEY MUST FACE THIS TERRIBLE MUTILATION (Poor illiterate women of indigenous origin, they were …
Forced Sterilization of the Indigenous Population in Peru
During the presidency of Alberto Fujimori, a birth-control plan was implemented targeting the poorest sectors of the Peruvian population, essentially indigenous people, which under the pretext of improving living conditions …
FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT MARÍA MAMÉRITA MESTANZA CHÁVEZ
Through a petition submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on June 15, 1999, the non-governmental organizations Estudio para la Defensa de la Mujer (DEMUS), the Comité de América …
¿lman ruwana kashan? What Do We Do Now?
"They don't suffer — they're used to it," says a woman to her son on a collective bus crossing Huancavelica. Coming to terms with the CVR report will mean admitting …
FINAL REPORT
During the course of the investigation into irregularities in the performance of sterilizations and vasectomies in the country, various difficulties arose. We note that the events under investigation occurred primarily …
Fujimori Ordered the Forced Sterilization of 200,000 Indigenous Women in Peru
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori and three former health ministers are to be charged with genocide by the Peruvian Congress. They are accused of having directed a plan of forced …
The UN, Accomplice in Forced Sterilizations
There is conclusive evidence that the United Nations collaborated in the forced sterilization of poor women in rural areas of Peru between 1995 and 1997. Peruvian parliamentarian and physician Héctor …
Final Report on the Implementation of Voluntary Surgical Contraception
Report presented by the investigative subcommittee on individuals and institutions involved in voluntary surgical contraception (AQV) actions, concluding "that there are indications of the presumed commission of crimes against individual …
President's Page: Peru Sterilization Campaign
In January 1998, PRI sent researcher David Morrison to Peru to investigate reports that women were being forcibly sterilized. What he discovered was a nationwide campaign, aimed specifically at sterilizing …
Human Rights and Reproductive Wrongs
Note: The following is excerpted from Steven Mosher's book, Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. When the government sterilization team arrived in their little town of La Legua, Peru, Celia Durand …