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.
On April 15, 1997, Fernando Olivera proposed that the Peruvian Congress establish a commission to investigate allegations made by ex-SIN agent Mesmer Carles Talledo regarding the Colina Group and its connections to the National Intelligence Service. Despite the serious nature of the accusations, the majority in Congress dismissed the motion, …
On June 16, 1995, Judge Antonia Saquicuray of the Sixteenth Specialized Criminal Court in Lima requested the military to present four members of the 'Colina Group' to her court as detainees. This action followed the court's declaration of the inapplicability of Article 1 of Law 26479, which granted general amnesty …
The La Cantuta massacre involved the murder of nine students and a professor from the Universidad La Cantuta, with their bodies discovered on 12 July 1993 in Cieneguilla, Lima. Investigations led by journalists like Ricardo Uceda faced significant challenges, including threats and lack of cooperation from authorities. The event highlighted …
On 5 May 1993, General Rodolfo Robles Espinoza publicly denounced that the Barrios Altos massacre and the disappearances at the Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle 'La Cantuta' were perpetrated by a criminal structure within the Peruvian state. This structure was reportedly under the control of General Nicolás …
Pedro Huilca, a prominent labor leader in Peru, was assassinated on December 18, 1992. His death was initially attributed to the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), a Maoist guerrilla group. However, there were allegations and suspicions that the assassination might have been orchestrated by the Grupo Colina, a death squad linked …
Pedro Yauri, a victim of the Grupo Operativo Especial 'Colina', was abducted from his home and taken to a beach near Huacho. There, he was interrogated, tortured, and forced to dig his own grave before being executed by a gunshot to the head. His father attempted to report the kidnapping, …
On June 24, 1992, agents from the Grupo Colina, a death squad associated with the Peruvian military, abducted Pedro Yauri Bustamante. The operation was led by Santiago Martín Rivas and involved several members of the group. Yauri's disappearance is part of a series of human rights violations committed during the …
On April 5, 1992, a coup d'état in Peru led to the establishment of a de facto regime that suspended democratic institutions. This regime, known as the 'Government of Emergency and National Reconstruction,' governed by decree and used state resources to organize covert operational groups. These groups were responsible for …
The coup d'état on April 5, 1992, in Peru was led by President Alberto Fujimori, with key figures like Vladimiro Montesinos and Nicolás Hermoza Ríos playing significant roles. This event marked the subordination of democratic processes to a counter-subversive strategy, leading to a dictatorial regime characterized by corruption and human …
In August 1991, Santiago Martin Rivas and Carlos Pichilingüe Guevara developed the Plan Cipango, ostensibly to guide the Army Intelligence's operations against subversive elements. However, it is believed to have served as a cover for the activities of the Grupo Colina death squad. The plan's operational areas coincided with locations …
Luis Morales Ortega, a journalist, was assassinated in Ayacucho, Peru, on July 13, 1991. The operation was carried out by a group that included future members of the 'Grupo Colina', a notorious death squad. The assassination was meticulously planned, with surveillance starting in May 1991, and was executed by a …
On June 25, 1991, President Alberto Fujimori issued a memorandum to the Minister of Defense, requesting appropriate rewards for a group of Peruvian military officers. These officers were recognized for their efficient services in national security and defense of democratic values, which were deemed highly useful for the National Intelligence …
On May 22, 1991, La Cantuta University was subjected to a military intervention following a visit by President Fujimori. Military troops stormed the campus at three in the morning, prompting most of the 300 residents to evacuate beforehand. Among those detained were students Armando Amaro Cóndor, Marcelino Rosales, and Felipe …
Captain José Pablo Colina Gaige, an elite military officer, devised a plan to be dishonorably discharged from the Peruvian army and moved to Paris. Disillusioned, he connected with members of the Sendero Luminoso and returned to Peru to join the armed struggle. His mission was to reach Abimael Guzmán, but …
On February 5, 1991, Benedicto Jiménez was appointed as the liaison officer between DIRCOTE and SIN by President Alberto Fujimori. This appointment marked the beginning of increased collaboration between intelligence services and DIRCOTE, with SIN analysts entering to assist in analyzing seized documentation. However, it was later revealed that some …
In January 1991, a local television station aired a video showing a cultural-political event at the Universidad Nacional de Educación (UNE) in Peru, where participants, including students and Shining Path leaders, displayed flags and sang hymns to Abimael Guzmán. This event led to increased surveillance of students by intelligence agents, …
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Barrios Altos and La Cantuta are the cases that could put former President Fujimori behind bars. Most Peruvians know fragments of what happened — broken accounts, painful images — but …
We greet you on behalf of the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH), an institutional platform that brings together 78 organizations at the national level that defend and promote human …
Hundreds of bereaved families and victims came to the capital to demand greater attention from the government. They gathered at 'El Ojo que Llora,' at Lima's municipality, and at the …
Lima accounts for only 2% of the disappeared at the national level. But this does not prevent the identification of a pattern of disappearances. Three moments are identified in the …
The CVR's Final Report captures not only the results of two years of investigations, interviews with more than 17,000 people, public hearings, and debate; it also synthesized a long process …
A legal report prepared by experts from the Defensoría del Pueblo, which dismantles the thesis of the Sala Villa Stein, was submitted to the Poder Judicial and to the Inter-American …
On July 20, the Supreme Court of Peru issued a highly controversial ruling in a case involving members of the annihilation squad known as the Grupo Colina. According to human …
The Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura, as the sole disciplinary body for Supreme Court judges, agreed yesterday to open a preliminary investigation into the magistrates of the Sala Penal of …
Last Friday the Sala Penal Permanente of the Corte Suprema de Justicia made public the ruling in the Barrios Altos case, following a television interview with the president of that …
The members of the sinister detachment committed crimes against humanity, and now Villa Stein says they are common offenses. The Sala Penal Especial Permanente de la Corte Suprema ordered the …
The secret history of the 28 hours that elapsed between the car bomb attack in Miraflores and the massacre of 9 students and a professor from La Cantuta, who were …
The Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court reduced the sentences that the First Special Criminal Chamber had handed down against the main leaders of the Colina group, among them …
The president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte IDH), Diego García Sayán, stated today that this court monitors compliance with all its rulings and that the Barrios Altos …
Now that, thanks to the ruling by Supreme Court judge Javier Villa Stein, Colonel Alberto Pinto Cárdenas has been released and denies his ties to the Colina group, we recall …
The ruling of July 20, issued by the Sala Penal Permanente of the Corte Suprema de Justicia in the Barrios Altos massacre case, sought to become a turning point in …
After 19 years and three months, family members identify victims of political violence. According to the findings of the forensic team, the nine disappeared were bound and shot dead by …
The Executive Branch, on behalf of the Peruvian State, today asked for forgiveness from the relatives of the nine disappeared peasants from El Santa, who were kidnapped and extrajudicially executed …
It should be recalled that the amnesty laws were enacted in 1995 because of this case, as the existence of a military organization dedicated to killing people, and its connection …
Former intelligence adviser Vladimiro Montesinos and former Army chief Nicolás Hermoza, the second and third in command, respectively, in the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000), were sentenced on …
Mariella Barreto was murdered and dismembered 13 years ago, shortly after having revealed the location of the victims of a massacre attributed to the government of then-President Alberto Fujimori. The …
The trial of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori for the commission of serious crimes against human rights is, without doubt, the most important in our history, not only because a former president …
Alberto Fujimori has begun his substantive defense in the trial against him for serious human rights violations in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases. During this first appearance he …
This study aims to establish, through a biopolitical lens, that Peru, during the government of Alberto Fujimori, was under a permanent state of exception; in which army barracks were used …
Over these 17 years, the relatives of the La Cantuta victims obtained a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Peruvian State for this massacre, as well …
"People were no longer asking how you were, but who had been murdered," recalled former president Alberto Fujimori in a passage of his self-defense begun on Wednesday the 1st. He …
Raida Cóndor, mother of one of the La Cantuta students murdered by the Colina group, maintained that the government must have "money to spare" after rejecting a 2-million-dollar donation from …
In order to highlight and analyze the Fujimori trial in comparative perspective, as well as other proceedings for human rights violations currently underway in various parts of Latin America, the …
This study aims to establish, through a biopolitical lens, that Peru, during the government of Alberto Fujimori, was under a permanent state of exception; where army barracks were used as …
In a historic ruling, a Peruvian court sentenced former President Alberto Fujimori to 25 years in prison for human rights violations. Fujimori, 70, was accused of being the intellectual author …
With only a few days remaining before sentence is handed down against former president Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000) for the crimes of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, the prosecutor in the …
General Nicolás Hermoza Ríos, who in 1992 was chairman of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, was aware of the massacre of nine students and one professor at La …
"This document describes, as faithfully as possible, the experience of the family members of the victims of La Cantuta, sets out our relationship with them, and accounts for the personal …
This commentary attempts to show the importance of approaching the history of the period corresponding to the presidency of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), based on a critical review of the book …
The trials of Fujimori began more than two months ago, and the justice system has been acting impeccably. This is demonstrated by the fact that no one has raised any …
Peru was a slaughterhouse when Alberto Fujimori, president of the country from 1990 to 2000, authorized State terrorism against the Maoist terrorism of Sendero Luminoso. For four months now, the …
"It is a great act of impudence, because the (paramilitary) Colina group was not a creation of the Armed Forces — it came from other quarters — so these are …
A compilation of the events and investigations that brought Alberto Fujimori to the defendant's bench.
This work investigates the construction of memories during the political period known as fujimorismo, which began with the "self-coup" of 1992 — when President Alberto Fujimori and the military high …
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori acknowledged two secret memoranda he signed in 1991 to reward military commanders and subordinates, shortly before they organized a death squad and murdered 25 suspects …
The ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concludes that the Peruvian State violated the right to life, personal integrity, and personal liberty, to the detriment of Hugo Muñoz …
Two years after the CVR final report, Sofía Macher offers an assessment of it, Ramiro Escobar presents the facts — not words — of what has been accomplished and what …
CARETAS 1888 broke the exclusive story about the existence of an audio recording capturing an unpublished speech by General Nicolás Hermoza Ríos during a lunch held in honor of the …
Can one fight a cannibal by devouring the cannibal, or an arsonist by burning down his house? The civilized answer will opt for a calm "no." But if fear enters …
Volume 7 of the CVR's Final Report includes seventy-three cases of serious human rights violations perpetrated by Sendero Luminoso, the MRTA, the Armed and Police Forces, and the self-styled Grupo …
The judicial declaration of Nicolás Hermoza Ríos regarding the knowledge that Alberto Fujimori had about the existence and operations of the paramilitary group "Colina" is one of the key pieces …