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.
Commissioner Alberto Morote Sánchez held an assembly with the authorities of the Uchuraccay community and conducted interviews with the villagers. This visit was part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work to collect testimonies about the violence that occurred in the community during the internal armed conflict. During this assembly, …
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission made its second visit to the Asháninka area of the Central Jungle between October 10 and 29, 2002. This was part of a total of four visits made on three separate dates to interview villagers and authorities of the Asháninka communities. The objective was to …
In-depth interview conducted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the community of Pujas, department of Ayacucho, in August 2002. This interview is part of the TRC's research work on human rights violations during the internal armed conflict. The testimony collected in this interview is mentioned in the context of …
Antenógenes Haro Cruz requested the reopening of the investigation before the First Mixed Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Huaraz. The Prosecutor's Office ordered an extended police investigation against Roberto Espejo, Juan Sotelo Ibaceta and several members of the National Police: William Gioves Manrique, Francisco Arenas Osorio, Rufino Rosas Factor, Claudio Flores …
On April 18, 1995, the judge of the 16th Criminal Court of Lima, Dr. Antonia Saquicuray, admitted the denunciation of the Provincial Prosecutor and opened an investigation against General EP Julio Salazar Monroe and others accused for the crimes of murder and injuries in the Barrios Altos massacre. The judge …
Carlos Blanco Oropeza, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Democratic Constituent Congress (CCD) and a pro-Fujimori congressman, made public statements after investigating allegations of human rights violations during Operation Aries. Blanco Oropeza had been in Huanuco since April 11 investigating events in Cayumba Chico, and subsequently led the …
The Prosecutor of the Nation, Blanca Nélida Colán, made an inspection visit to Venenillo and other towns in the area where Operation Aries was taking place, flying over the area by helicopter. During this visit, the Prosecutor stated that the allegations made by the National Human Rights Coordinator about alleged …
On April 16, 1994, a delegation from the National Human Rights Coordinating Committee (CNDDHH) traveled to Alto Huallaga to investigate allegations of human rights violations during Operation Aries. The delegation was made up of Pablo Rojas, Roger Niego, Ivonne Montoya, José Nalvarte and Ernesto de la Jara, as well as …
Carlos Blanco Oropeza, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Democratic Constituent Congress (CCD), was in Huánuco since April 11, 1994. His early presence in the area was to investigate the events of human rights violations committed by the Peruvian Army in Cayumba Chico. Subsequently, as part of the …
On November 2, 1993, the magazine Sí reported that in the early morning of July 18, 1992, the ten bodies of the victims of La Cantuta were initially buried in a hollow located at kilometer 1.5 of the Ramiro Prialé Highway (Huachipa) used by the National Police as a shooting …
On July 8, 1993, the magazine Sí revealed that the remains of some students from La Cantuta had been buried in the Chavilca ravine, in the district of Cieneguilla. Prosecutor Víctor Cubas Villanueva carried out a verification diligence before representatives of the national and international press, finding buried bone and …
The plenary of the Democratic Constituent Congress charged the Human Rights and Pacification Commission with investigating the arbitrary detentions and human rights violations that occurred on June 27, 1992 in the district of San Ignacio. To investigate the case, five congressmen traveled to Chiclayo, holding interviews with judicial and police …
On November 15, 1991, the Ministers of the Interior and Defense appeared again before the Senate Committee. General Briones Davila denied the existence of the 'Ambulant Operations Plan' and the 'Lima Sheraton Surveillance Post', based on documents from DIRCOTE and the General Staff of the Armed Forces. In view of …
On November 10, 1991, the Senate Human Rights Commission summoned former Ministers of the Interior and Defense, Generals Juan Briones Davila and Victor Malca Villanueva, to report on the Barrios Altos massacre. The ministers presented three hypotheses about the perpetrators (Shining Path, MRTA or outside organizations) but categorically denied the …
In December 1987, the Senate Investigative Commission chaired by Rolando Ames Cobián presented two reports on the events of the June 1986 prisons, one in the majority and the other in the minority. Both coincide in the facts but differ in the evaluation and determination of responsibilities. The minority report …
On December 1, 1987, the commission investigating the case of the prisons presented its report, signed by six members, pointing out the President of the Republic, the Alva Castro ministerial cabinet and the Joint Command of the Armed Forces as politically responsible for the massacre of the prisons that took …
On June 27, 1986, President Alan Garcia Perez admitted that there was evidence of the commission of crimes in the Lurigancho prison by the Republican Guard and announced the beginning of an investigation aimed at punishing all those responsible for the massacre, with the famous phrase 'either all those responsible …
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.
The investigation carried out by the ad hoc Court of Instruction ended on February 17, 1984, one year and one month after the events of the Uchuraccay massacre. The case file was transferred to the Superior Court of Justice of Ayacucho. Subsequently, on August 14, 1984, the Public Prosecutor's Office …
EP General Adrián Huamán Centeno decided that the cases of unidentified detainees would be investigated by the PIP (Peruvian Investigative Police). This decision was made in the context of allegations of human rights violations and disappearances in the emergency zones, particularly in Ayacucho. One day later, on January 20, in …
Between May 9 and 14, 1983, Judge ad hoc Juan Flores Rojas conducted a judicial proceeding in the communities of Uchuraccay, Huaychao and Iquicha. During this diligence, the judge collected statements from various authorities and peasants of these communities. On the last day of this judicial proceeding, May 14, an …
The Investigation Commission of the Uchuraccay Events, appointed by President Fernando Belaunde Terry on February 2, 1983 and presided over by writer Mario Vargas Llosa, presented its report one month after its creation. The commission was created to investigate the murder of eight journalists on January 26, 1983 in the …
El Diario de Marka published all of the testimonies collected by Ayacucho journalist Luis Morales in Uchuraccay. These testimonies had been recorded on January 30, 1983, when Morales collected the statements of community members such as Saturnino Ayala, Francisco Ñaupa, Olimpio Gavilán, Julia Aujatoma, Vicente Quispe Figueroa, Teodosio Soto, Alfonso …
On February 11, 1983, a community assembly was held in Uchuraccay with the presence of the members of the Investigating Commission of the Uchuraccay Events, presided over by Mario Vargas Llosa. This commission had been appointed by the government on February 2 to investigate the massacre of eight journalists on …
The Uchuraccay Events Investigation Commission, chaired by Mario Vargas Llosa, met with the Uchuraccay villagers in an assembly held three weeks after the massacre of the journalists. The dialogue lasted almost three hours and was conducted through translators because none of the commissioners spoke Quechua. During the assembly, the peasants …
The Investigation Commission of the Uchuraccay Events, presided over by writer Mario Vargas Llosa and appointed by President Fernando Belaunde Terry on February 2, 1983, held a community assembly in Uchuraccay. This commission was created to investigate the murder of eight journalists on January 26, 1983. During the assembly, the …
On February 2, 1983, the Peruvian government appointed the Uchuraccay Events Investigation Commission, chaired by writer Mario Vargas Llosa. This commission was created to investigate the massacre of eight journalists that occurred on January 26, 1983 in the community of Uchuraccay, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. According to the CVR report, …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry appointed the Investigation Commission of the Uchuraccay Events on February 2, 1983, chaired by writer Mario Vargas Llosa. This commission was created to investigate the murder of eight journalists on January 26, 1983 in the community of Uchuraccay. The commission presented its report a month later, …
The second patrol under the command of Civil Guard Captain Novato Soto Barreda, head of the Counter-Subversive Command of Huanta, arrived in Huaychao on January 28 around midday and spent the night in that community. At dawn on January 29, several Huaychao villagers accompanied the members of this patrol to …
On January 29, 1983, the first Civil Guard patrol arrived in Uchuraccay to investigate the disappearance of the journalists. The members of this patrol traveled by jeep from Tambo to Chalhuamayo, and from there they set out on foot to Uchuraccay. The communal authorities informed the patrol about the deaths …
On January 29, 1983, around six o'clock in the afternoon, a helicopter commanded by FAP Major Jorge Ernesto Barboza Salaverry landed in Uchuraccay to verify the existence of the graves of the murdered journalists. Major Barboza had first arrived in Huaychao, where he met with the second patrol commanded by …
The second patrol under the command of Civil Guard Captain Novato Soto Barreda, head of the Counter-Subversive Command of Huanta, arrived in Huaychao around noon on January 28, 1983. The patrol spent the night in the community that night. The next day, accompanied by Huaychao community members, they went to …
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