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.
Law No. 26590, enacted on April 18, 1996, added a subsection to Article 13 of Decree Law 25475, which was the main anti-terrorist law in force since 1992. This modification is part of the set of anti-terrorist laws enacted during the government of Alberto Fujimori, which established an exceptional regime …
Miguel Rincón Rincón, an important member of the MRTA (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru) leadership, was arrested on November 30, 1995. This capture represented another resounding blow to the MRTA, which had already suffered the arrest of other important leaders such as Víctor Polay Campos in 1992. Rincón Rincón's arrest took …
Law No. 26537, enacted on October 13, 1995, established a new term for faceless tribunals in Peru. This law was framed within the anti-terrorist legislation of Alberto Fujimori's government, which had implemented these special tribunals after the 1992 coup d'état. The faceless courts were a distinctive feature of the Peruvian …
Law No. 26508, enacted on July 21, 1995, criminalized acts of terrorism committed by people who had previously benefited from the repentance laws as treason. This law was part of the anti-terrorist legislation enacted during the government of Alberto Fujimori, specifically in the post-coup period of 1992. The law was …
Law No. 26345 was enacted on August 30, 1994 during the government of Alberto Fujimori. This law established the term of the law of repentance, which was part of the anti-terrorist legal framework implemented after the 1992 coup d'état. The Law of Repentance was a rule of penal law that …
Law No. 26248, enacted on November 25, 1993, modified Decree Law 25659 on treason and Decree Law 25475 on terrorism. This law was part of the set of anti-terrorist regulations enacted during the government of Alberto Fujimori after the 1992 self-coup. The law was part of the emergency legislation that …
Supreme Decree No. 015-93, promulgated on May 8, 1993, established the regulations for the law of repentance in the context of the anti-terrorist legislation of Alberto Fujimori's government. This norm regulated the procedures and conditions under which persons convicted or prosecuted for terrorist crimes could benefit from sentence reduction, exemption …
Decree Law No. 25660 was enacted on August 13, 1992, modifying Article 136° of the Code of Criminal Procedure. This norm was part of the anti-terrorist legislation enacted after the coup d'état of April 1992. The decree was framed in a context of expanded police and military powers for the …
On May 12, 1992, the Peruvian government published the Repentance Law. This law was enacted in a context of intensifying political violence in Metropolitan Lima, a few days after the police intervention known as 'Mudanza Uno' in the Shining Path wards of the Canto Grande prison (May 9, 1992), which …
Alberto Fujimori's government enacted Law 25499 on May 12, 1992, known as the law of repentance. This law allowed members of subversive groups to receive legal benefits if they voluntarily turned themselves in and collaborated with the authorities. In the department of San Martin, the OPASM (Oficina Prelatural de Acción …
The President of the Council of Ministers, Óscar de la Puente Raygada, announces the creation of a commission integrated by four Ministers of State with the purpose of carrying out the 'National Dialogue for Peace and Development'. This announcement is made in the context of the Emergency and National Reconstruction …
Peter Cardenas Schulte, leader of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), was captured on April 14, 1992. He was sentenced to life imprisonment according to Law 25475, which was applied retroactively since this law had not yet been enacted at the time of his capture. This occurred in the context …
The Minister of Economy, Carlos Boloña Behr, publicly accuses former President Alan García Pérez and the Comptroller General of the Republic, Luz Áurea Saenz, of boycotting the economic program implemented by the government with exclusively political interests. Boloña specifically criticized the Comptroller's intentions to enter the National Superintendence of Tax …
The government decrees law 25433, which modifies article 31 of the habeas corpus law. This modification regulates the power of the judge to suspend momentarily those acts that may constitute violations of constitutional rights and that have been judicially challenged. The decree is produced in the context of the Government …
Towards the end of April 1992, the first ministerial crisis of the Emergency and National Reconstruction Government installed after the self-coup of April 5 took place. Chancellor Augusto Blacker Miller resigned due to his confrontation with Minister of Economy Carlos Boloña Behr. This resignation marked a moment of internal tension …
The writer Mario Vargas Llosa sent a letter to Alberto Fujimori's government during January 1992, in a context of growing confrontations between the President and the Parliament. The letter contained a frontal criticism of the economic program implemented by the government. It also included denunciations of corruption and human rights …
Óscar de la Puente Raigada assumed the Ministry of Education on December 12, 1991, in the context of ministerial changes during the government of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori. This appointment took place at a time of political tension between the Executive and the Congress, with multiple legislative decrees being issued and …
The Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Republic censures the Minister of Agriculture, Enrique Rossl Link. This occurred in the context of growing tensions between the Executive Power and the Congress during the government of Alberto Fujimori. The censure took place at the end of the first ordinary …
Legislative Decree No. 748 was enacted on November 8, 1991 during the government of Alberto Fujimori. This norm modified the benefits for collaboration for persons involved in the crime of terrorism. It was part of the anti-terrorist legislation developed before the coup d'état of April 1992. The decree was framed …
In August 1991, the Executive Branch lifted the state of emergency that had been declared in the department of San Martin. This measure took place in a context where the government had been extending states of emergency in various regions of the country due to political violence. The lifting of …
The government issues the Peace Council law which regulates the functioning of this body created in June and composed "by the living forces of the country". This law establishes the legal framework for the operation of the Peace Council, an entity that had been created the previous month with the …
Through Supreme Decree 024-91-DE/SGP, the Peruvian government extended the state of emergency for a sixty-day period beginning May 9, 1991 in the provinces of Chumbivilcas, Canas, Espinar and Canchis, located in the department of Cuzco, in the context of the Alberto Fujimori government's counter-subversive struggle against the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and …
In April 1991, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an attack against the premises of the Instituto Libertad y Democracia, directed by Hernando de Soto, who at the time was an advisor to President Alberto Fujimori. This attack was part of a reactivation of subversive actions in the capital during Fujimori's …
General EP (r) Adolfo Alvarado Fournier was replaced as Minister of the Interior by General EP (r) Víctor Malca Villanueva on March 15, 1991. This ministerial change came about as a consequence of two critical events that generated political pressure: the letter bomb attack against Augusto Zúñiga Paz, a COMISEDH …
The Peruvian government declared the Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas (SUNAD) under reorganization for a period of 180 days. This measure was part of a set of structural reforms implemented by the government of Alberto Fujimori during 1991. The reorganization of SUNAD was part of the broader process of reforming the …
The Peruvian government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached an agreement on the program that the country must follow to achieve its reinsertion into the international financial system. This agreement comes after minister Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller reiterated before the congressional standing committee on January 3 that the …
Senator Raúl Ferrero Costa, president of the Justice and Human Rights Commission, publicly revealed that during the first five months of Alberto Fujimori's government, around 200 people had disappeared in the department of Huancavelica. This denunciation took place in a context of growing concern about the government's respect for human …
The Peruvian government issued Supreme Decree 00-91-PCM declaring a state of reorganization of all public entities in the country. This measure was part of a broader policy of state reform implemented during the government of Alberto Fujimori. The decree also offered economic incentives for those civil servants who voluntarily resigned …
In 1991, during Alberto Fujimori's administration, military bases were installed in the districts of Chongos Bajo, Huamancaca Chico and Chupaca, as part of the military counteroffensive in the Canipaco valley. These installations were added to the military bases previously established in 1990 in the districts of Chicche (Vista Alegre Annex) …
President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori announces the initiation of a broad governmental family planning program based on the use of contraceptive methods. This announcement is made in the context of the first months of his administration, after assuming the presidency in July 1990. The program represents a public policy aimed at …
The General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) called a general strike during August 1990, in the context of the recently initiated government of Alberto Fujimori. The strike had little acceptance among the population and did not succeed in paralyzing the country's activities. This strike took place at a time of …
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