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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El Frontón Goes to Trial: The Prosecutor's Office Filed the Charges

RIVERA PAZ, Carlos

IDL. Justicia Viva · 2013

One of the bloodiest and at the same time most emblematic events of human rights violations in Peru is the case of the El Frontón massacre, carried out on June …

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Accomarca, 27 Years Waiting for Justice

RIVERA PAZ, Carlos

Justicia viva. Informando Justicia · 2012

The Accomarca massacre, perpetrated on the morning of August 14, 1985, is one of the most terrible events of the armed conflict, but at the same time it is one …

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The Excess Theory and the Supreme Court

RIVERA, Carlos

Justicia Viva IDL · 2012

The case of the massacre of Parcco and Pomatambo (Vilcashuamán, Ayacucho), perpetrated by elements of the Army on October 23, 1986, is not only an emblematic example of the crimes …

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Pending Justice and Confessions 27 Years After the Accomarca Massacre

LAMAS, Leonor

LAMULA.PE · 2012

Twenty-seven years ago, on August 14, 1985, 69 people — including elderly individuals, women, and children — were extrajudicially murdered in the Huancayoc ravine, in the community of Accomarca, by …

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The Dead Man Who Speaks

UCEDA, Ricardo

Revista PODER · 2012

On Monday the sentence will be announced that will determine whether or not there were extrajudicial executions during the Chávin de Huántar rescue operation. The case of Eduardo Cruz Sánchez …

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The Trial in the Accomarca Case

BURT, Jo-Marie / BEST URDAY, Kristel

Revista Retablo. Ayacucho · 2012

The streets around the Castro Castro prison, located in the upper part of the district of San Juan de Lurigancho on the outskirts of Lima, are made of dirt and …

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The Los Cabitos Trial

BURT, Jo-Marie

Ideele. Justicia viva · 2011

Retired general Carlos Briceño Zevallos does not remember anything that happened in 1983. At least that is the argument of his defense attorney, César Nakasaki, to support his claim that …

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The Responsibility of the Leader. 41 Pieces of Evidence Condemn Fujimori

Rivera Paz, Carlos

Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) · 2009

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 …

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Final for the Grandstand

Revista Caretas

Revista Caretas · 2009

"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 …

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The Fujimori Case and Public Opinion

PUCP Instituto de Opinión Pública

PUCP Instituto de Opinión Pública · 2009

Below we present a set of questions related to the case of former president Alberto Fujimori. The questions revolve around the charges for which he is being prosecuted, inquire into …

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Human Rights Tribunals in Latin America: The Fujimori Trial in Comparative Perspective

Youngers, Coletta

Instituto de defensa Legal (IDL). Oficina de Washington para Asuntos Latinoamericanos (WOLA) · 2009

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 …

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With Fujimori, Peru Became a Slaughterhouse

Aznárez, Juan Jesús

El País · 2008

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 …

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Trial of Fujimori. Subjectivities, Denial and the Power Game

Grupo de Trabajo de Salud Mental

Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH). 73 pp · 2008

In the six interviews contained in this book, you will be able to read the opinions of psychologists who report on certain psychosocial aspects they observe in the trial of …

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Colina Case: Accusatory Audio

Caycho, Patricia

Revista Caretas · 2005

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 …

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"Feliciano" Under Pressure

Hidalgo, Carlos

Revista Caretas · 2005

Óscar Ramírez Durand, 'Feliciano,' entered the hearing room at the Callao Naval Base with his head held high on the morning of last Monday the 26th. He greeted his former …

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"I Can Die in Ayacucho"

Revista Caretas

Revista Caretas · 2005

Twenty-two years after leaving the Political-Military Command of Ayacucho, retired Army General Roberto Clemente Noel Moral is about to return to Huamanga, but this time to go to prison. Judge …

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The Hour Has Come. Peruvian Democracy Confronts Abimael Guzmán

Revista Caretas

Revista Caretas · 2004

On November 5, the trial against Abimael Guzmán and the Shining Path leadership is set to begin, after the Tribunal Constitucional (TC) annulled in January 2003 the convictions for crimes …

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The Inventory of a Murderer

Zambrano, Américo

Revista Caretas · 2004

The publicity display put on by Abimael Guzmán and his co-defendants during the first hearing of the trial related to the César Vallejo academy left no room for doubt: the …

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The Man Who Betrayed Abimael

Revista Caretas

Revista Caretas · 2004

On Friday the 5th, the trial of Abimael Guzmán and the main leaders of Sendero Luminoso (SL) begins, in connection with the case of the Academia César Vallejo. As may …

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The Course of the Process

Revista Caretas

Revista Caretas · 2004

Two people who claimed not to know each other, Abimael Guzmán and Víctor Zavala, were very effusive with one another. The latter, a member of the Comité de Socorro Popular …

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How to Judge Montesinos

VILLASÍS, Graciela / GORRITI, Gustavo

Revista ideele N° 153 · 2003

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Extradition, Trial and Conviction of Alberto Fujimori

Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL)

Instituto de defensa Legal (IDL) · 2001

The criminal proceedings brought against former president Alberto Fujimori in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases, and the case of the Basements of the Army Intelligence Service (SIE), has …

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Who Is the Real Lori?

RÉNIQUE, José Luis

Revista ideele Nº 131 · 2000

Told this way, the story cannot help but inspire sympathy. The brilliant student from the exclusive Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), altruistic and committed, concerned about Latin America's dispossessed, was …

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Court Martial

Revista Caretas

Revista Caretas · 1997

A front-page headline in the New York Times of January 12 — "Peru Sentences New Yorker to Life in Prison. She Was Convicted of Treason for Backing Guerrillas" — reflects …

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The Tourism of Terror

Revista Caretas

Revista Caretas · 1995

The criminal situation of Lori Berenson, the American woman accused of participating in the MRTA, has grown more complicated in recent days. The on-site inspection carried out last Friday ended …

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