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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Huanta 840 - Documentary
Repression in Peru in the 1990s
Chavín de Huántar: the history
CVR public hearings: Lima. July 2002
CVR public hearings: Lima. Thematic hearing, violence against women. September 2002
CVR public hearings: Lima. June 2002
2000
DISPLACED PERSONS
1997
OPERATION CHAVÍN DE HUÁNTAR
1997
OPERATION CHAVÍN DE HUÁNTAR
1997
FREED
1997
FREED
1997
OPERATION CHAVÍN DE HUÁNTAR
1997
OPERATION CHAVÍN DE HUÁNTAR
1996
NESTOR CERPA
1993
Victim of a car bomb explosion at the Hotel Crillón
1993
DISAPPEARED PERSON
1992
PROTEST AGAINST THE ATTACK
1992
VICTIMS OF THE ATTACK
1992
TARATA STREET BOMBING
1992
A FATHER'S GRIEF
1992
Residents find a body in a neighborhood of the capital
1992
TARATA STREET BOMBING
1992
TARATA STREET BOMBING
1992
TARATA STREET BOMBING
1990
LIMA ARMS ITSELF
1990
LIMA ARMS ITSELF
1990
LIMA ARMS ITSELF
1990
LIMA ARMS ITSELF
1990
LIMA ARMS ITSELF
1990
LIMA ARMS ITSELF
1990
ARMY SOCIAL MISSION
1990
IN PURSUIT OF ABIMAEL GUZMÁN
1989
Police officers clash with Shining Path members in La Victoria, Lima
1988
POLICE AT RISK
1987
Medical personnel examine the body of Civil Guard officer Eugenio Veñazques Barra
1986
Body of Shining Path member Maria Luisa Aroni Contreras
1984
High-voltage tower brought down in Lima
1984
POLICE OFFICER'S FUNERAL
1984
FUNERAL OF A SHINING PATH MEMBER IN LIMA
Documents 38
The 55 of Lima
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 Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Media: Ayacucho and Lima
Media owners have changed little compared to the corrupt period of the nineties. They are not inclined toward human rights issues, and their orientation has been toward the progressive silencing …
City of the Condemned
Lima in Peruvian cinema in the late 1980s and early 1990s. What was the cinematic image of the capital at a time when an internal war and a severe economic …
Lima, So Many Times: The Museum of Memory
The rejection and subsequent acceptance by the Peruvian Government of the German donation for the construction of a museum that would house the history of the events that occurred during …
Sowing Hope: Local Reparation Experiences in Ayacucho, Huánuco, San Martín and Lima "2004-2007"
Following the presentation of the Final Report of the Truth Commission, the Asociación Paz y Esperanza decided to contribute to the reconciliation process through its ongoing work. As soon as …
Shadows of a Rescue. Tracking the Hidden Traces in the Japanese Ambassador's Residence
On April 23, 1997, fourteen police commissioners were summoned for a secret mission: they were to bury the bodies of the terrorists who had died the previous day during the …
Tunnel Secrets. Lima, Peru. 126 Days of Captivity in the Japanese Ambassador's Residence
On the night of December 17, 1996, a platoon of 14 members of the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) stormed the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima during the …
Car-Bomb Generation (advance: first 16 pages)
A group of friends seeks an escape from their emptiness. Between Sendero Luminoso and the repression, the outlook is quite bleak. They do not know what they want or how …
Demanding the Right to Mental Health. Those Affected by the Internal Armed Conflict in Peru
This study offers an interdisciplinary approach to the multiple facets of the mental health problems faced by people affected by the internal armed conflict that Peru experienced between 1980 and …
Women's Memories (in the Internal Armed Conflict)
This document aims to collect, highlight, and restore value to women as human beings who acted during the violence experienced by the country. On the other hand, it seeks to …
In the Jaws of the Beasts
"En las fauces de las fieras" brings together three extraordinary stories that address, with bold prose, the ever-relevant theme of political violence in society and the way it intrudes upon …
Press and Military Option. Hostages in the House of the Rising Sun
The credibility of journalism has faced a trial by fire in one of the most regrettable and striking episodes in the history of the Peruvian press: the takeover of the …
And Truth Will Be Our Defense
More than 10 years have passed since the night when the killers burst into the old building on Jirón Huanta 840. If until then many had doubted the magnitude of …
The autobiography of Maria Elena Moyano
Shining Path guerrillas (Sendero Luminoso) assassinated María Elena Moyano and dynamited her body on February 15, 1992. They murdered her in the presence of her sons, Gustavo and David Pineki, …
The Least Risk Was to Die. Step by Step the Peru Hostage Crisis
ESAN, with the publication of this book, wishes to pay tribute to the Peruvians and foreigners who, with sacrifice and courage, were held hostage during the painful incident that took …
Voluntary Hostage: 126 Days in the Residence of the Japanese Ambassador
Like most Peruvians and world public opinion, the events at the Japanese Embassy moved me deeply. Feelings of astonishment, anguish, and shame mingled with growing concern over what appeared to …
Base Tokyo. The Hostage Crisis in Peru. The Bloody Summer
The takeover of the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima became from the very first moment a news story of worldwide impact, as demonstrated by the number of journalists from the …
Operation Chavín de Huántar. Rescue at the Japanese Embassy Residence
Once the takeover of the residence occurred, the President of the Republic once again made the momentous and courageous decision to assume direct control of the management of the grave …
Shining Path, Are You There?
At dawn on May 1, Cerro Puruchuco in La Molina looked like a battlefield. A helicopter was circling overhead and several police patrol cars were clustered on the hillsides. Guards …
Society and local power: the community of Villa El Salvador, 1971-1996: testimonies and reflections of an actor: Michel Azcueta
This book is a slightly modified version of a doctoral thesis submitted to the History Department of Columbia University, New York. The subject it addresses is the Lima shantytown of …
Shining Path Returns - Opinion Column
The blackout that began in the early hours of Saturday the 18th, and lasted a couple of days in some districts of Lima, was officially explained as a technical failure. …
Lima, at the End of the Shining Path
The red graffiti can still be made out — the hammer and sickle, the emblems of the PCP (Partido Comunista Peruano), the revolutionary slogans that decorated the walls. The paint …
Barbarism Looms Over Lima Again
A car bomb containing approximately 100 kilograms of explosives detonated at 4:20 in the early morning of Wednesday the 24th, in front of the casino of the Hotel María Angola, …
Displacement Due to Political Violence in Peru 1980-1992
"This document presents a synthesis of the research carried out by the Centro de Promoción y Desarrollo Poblacional-CEPRODEP, enriched by contributions from national specialists at successive events. The research is …
Maria Elena Moyano: in search of hope.
María Elena Moyano's contribution to the organization and centralization of the women's movement was significant; her management in the municipality of Villa El Salvador proved innovative, promoting the formation of …
Shining Path Beyond Borders
This document has not yet been digitized in the BVVR. It can be consulted in person at the library of the Centro de Estudios y Promoción de Desarrollo, DESCO, in …
From the Sierra to the Cities: The Urban Campaign of Shining Path
Original title: From the Sierra to the Cities. The Urban Campaign of the Shining Path. Translated into Spanish by Ricardo Alvarado Portalino. This report describes the urban campaign of Sendero …
Shining Path: Lima Report
This document has not yet been digitized in the BVVR. It can be consulted in person at the library of the Centro de Estudios y Promoción de Desarrollo, DESCO, in …
From the Sierra to the Cities. The Urban Campaign of the Shining Path.
This report describes the Shining Path's urban campaign against the government of Peru. The study is founded on a database assessment of war, the author's travels in Peru, and interviews …
Trial of Abimael: Shining Path, Ideology and Reality
Guzmán promised a "red October in Lima." October, a month with many meanings, had been chosen by the leader of Sendero Luminoso to show the world and his own followers …
Shining Path Behind Lima's "Iron Belt"
Sendero Luminoso is attempting to forcibly dominate the poor neighborhoods surrounding Lima in order to turn them into links in an "iron belt" that seeks to encircle and isolate the …
On the Razor's Edge
This document has not yet been digitized in the BVVR. It can be consulted in person at the library of the Centro de Estudios y Promoción de Desarrollo, DESCO, in …
Peru. Political Violence Seen from the Experiences of the People
In this edition we present a first summary of some of the regional experiences of political violence, which are the result of many years of work by the grassroots leaders …
Defense Intelligence Summary – Terrorism
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assesses recent terrorist activity by Sendero Luminoso in Lima and Huaraz. The actions examined include the December 7 bombing of the national electrical grid, the …
Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary, Peru: SL Activity
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assesses recent Sendero Luminoso terrorist activity in Lima and Huaraz. The actions discussed include the December 7th bombing of the national electric grid, the December …
Peruvian Government Bans March for "Peace and Justice" and Militarizes Lima
The document refers to the cancellation of the march for "Peace and Justice" called by IU as a reaction to two major "disappearances" and reports of killings attributed to both …
Shining Path: Conscience of the Left?
To what extent are the actions of Sendero Luminoso cornering the Peruvian left, to the point of bewildering it? What logic should be used to understand Sendero Luminoso? What are …
Along Shining Path's Roads. A Chronicle from Ayacucho
This document has not yet been digitized in the BVVR. It can be consulted in person at the library of the Centro de Estudios y Promoción de Desarrollo, DESCO, in …