Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru

VILLASANTE, Mariella

IDEHPUCP · 2014

On August 18 and 19, 1993, a column of men armed with sticks, axes, machetes, and some rifles attacked eight communities located in the Tsiriari valley (district of Mazamari, province …

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 …

IDEHPUCP

IDEHPUCP · 2012

The Segunda Fiscalía Penal Supraprovincial of Ayacucho handed over the remains of nine victims in the Sachabamba case, a peasant community that was attacked 28 years ago by Sendero Luminoso. …

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 …

CRUZ CHUMBE, Jesús Fernando

La Voz de Huamanga · 2012

The Segunda Fiscalía Penal Supraprovincial of Ayacucho returned the remains of 17 victims of the Cceraocros massacre, which occurred in the district of Ocros (province of Huamanga) in 1984 and …

Agencia EFE

Terra.com.pe · 2012

Today marks 20 years since nine students and a professor from La Cantuta university were abducted and murdered by a military group, in one of the cases for which former …

SALAZAR, Milagros

IPS · 2010

For 26 years, Gregoria Aguilar has mourned her dead in this city in the department of Cusco, where she lives. She lost her son, her son-in-law, and her nephew in …

Chávez, Enrique

Revista Caretas · 2009

These are postcards from hell. Celestino Jáuregui survived a machete blow to the head. His wife was found dead while he lay unconscious, also presumed killed. Their baby, just over …

Radio Programas del Perú (RPP)

Radio Programas del Perú (RPP) · 2009

The Public Ministry found the bodies of 25 children allegedly murdered by a military patrol in the province of Víctor Fajardo, in the department of Ayacucho, in November 1983. Forensic …

PÁEZ, Ángel

TERRAVIVA · 2008

More than two decades later, justice began to detain the soldiers, like Contreras, who under the command of then-lieutenant Telmo Hurtado swept through Accomarca with fire and blood, killing 16 …

Patriau, Mariella

Diario Liberación · 2001

The Huanca Sancos case involves serious human rights violations committed systematically by members of the Army and Police in Huanca Sancos, in the Ayacucho region, between February and March 1983, …

Patriau, Mariella

Diario Liberación · 2001

The farmers of Accomarca, the Ayacuchan district, have been awaiting justice for nearly sixteen years. This August 14 will mark another anniversary of the massacre that wiped out more than …

Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (Aprodeh)

Lima. APRODEH, 1999, 136 pp · 1999

The massacre of Cayara is significant for several reasons. First, because it represented a tightening of the screw with respect to the human rights violations of a government that began …

Departamento de Estado

National Security Archive Electronic · 1991

Secretary of State James Baker instructs the U.S. Ambassador in Lima to seek a meeting with President Fujimori in order to discuss the Barrios Altos massacre. This cable sets out …

Embajada U.S Lima

National Security Archive Electronic · 1989

39 peasants from a remote jungle village, Canaire in the department of Ayacucho, have been massacred by Sendero Luminoso. The killing was apparently in retaliation for the village's efforts to …

Cristóbal, Juan.

Ediciones Tierra Nueva, 360 pp. · 1987

This book was supposed to appear toward the end of last year, approximately, but due to causes and contingencies not always of fate's making, but rather various impediments both major …