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 September 3, 2001, the Inter-American Court issued a judgment of interpretation stating that the decision in the Barrios Altos case has general effects, applying not only to this case but to all cases of human rights violations in Peru since 1980 in which amnesty laws 26479 and 26492 were …
On March 14, 2001, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in the Barrios Altos case, declaring that amnesty laws 26479 and 26492 are incompatible with the American Convention on Human Rights and have no legal effect. The Peruvian State recognized its international responsibility for violation of the …
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark judgment in the Barrios Altos case, declaring that the amnesty laws enacted in Peru lack legal effect because they are incompatible with the American Convention. The judgment established that amnesty, statutes of limitation and exclusion of liability provisions that seek to …
The Constitutional Court declared inadmissible the action of unconstitutionality filed against amnesty laws 26479 and 26492, considering that their effects had already been exhausted. This decision consolidated the impunity granted by the amnesty laws and was later contradicted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which would declare such laws …
In June 1995, the Democratic Constituent Congress approved by majority vote the Amnesty laws guaranteeing impunity for human rights violations. This approval included a significant vote by some leaders of the opposition to the Fujimori regime. The amnesty laws were designed to dispense with the obsequiousness of judicial authorities and …
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