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.
Testimony collected in Sicuani where the affiant narrates the murder of his father in 1989 in the town of Azángaro, Puno. This testimony is part of the documentation of cases of political violence in the southern Andean region. The testimony illustrates the long-term psychological effects on the victims' families, including …
In May 2002, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission visited the community of Uchuraccay. Upon learning of the Commission's arrival, some community members initially thought that it was going to "judge them for the massacre of the journalists" that took place in 1983. Once they overcame their initial mistrust, the community …
In May 2002, the villagers of Uchuraccay handed over to the members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a list with the names of 135 Uchuraccaínos who died as a result of political violence between 1983 and 1984. This delivery was part of the TRC's documentation work on the victims …
On January 26, 1998, in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the death of the eight journalists murdered in Uchuraccay, the first peace and national reconciliation meeting was held. This event was promoted by a group of journalists from Ayacucho and the authorities of the Tambo district, who contacted the …
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Human Rights organizations and relatives of victims of the internal conflict commemorated today, August 28, the 15th Anniversary of the delivery of the CVR report, paying a heartfelt tribute to …
On June 21, 2016, Law 30470, the Law on the Search for Disappeared Persons during the Period of Violence 1980–2000, was enacted, marking a paradigm shift in state intervention by …
"Mamá Angélica" begins her final journey tomorrow. Precisely on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza will be buried in the cemetery of Huamanga, …
Lifetime testimony of Mamá Angélica. Spanish transcription of the testimony given by Angélica Mendoza, Mamá Angélica, about the disappearance of her son Arquímedes Arquímides Ascarza Mendoza. Published on September 1, …
A native of Ayacucho, her name was Angélica Mendoza Ascarza, but Peru knew her simply as "Mamá Angélica." Until the age of 88, when life gave out, she never stopped …
"Maypi kachkanki Arquímedes?" "Where are you, Arquímedes?" What I remember about mamá Angélica are her eyes of unfathomable sadness. That last time I interviewed her, in 2015. Her husband had …
On August 28, 2017, Huamanga awakens to a brilliant Andean sun illuminating the tile rooftops surrounding the Plaza de Armas of the city. The atmosphere is as calm as any …
The Ayacucho guitar plays and the mothers of the disappeared sing in Quechua to 'Mamá Angélica,' the founding mother, the great mother. At the cemetery of Huamanga, on the afternoon …
"Courageous mother, woman of a thousand battles, beautiful mother, unshakeable woman, your struggle is our struggle, your tears are our tears, you fought for 30 years in hard battles against …
Without a doubt, Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza was one of those women who, against all odds in the world, believed in justice and fought for it. I will not recount …
Ten days before she died, on August 18, the Poder Judicial confirmed that in 1983 her son, Arquímedes Ascarza, had been disappeared by a group of soldiers from the Los …
The following audio is a posthumous tribute to doña Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza, known as Mamá Angélica, an exemplary mother who leaves us an enormous lesson of struggle and tireless …
The Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH) expresses its greatest satisfaction at the ruling issued by judge Hugo Rodolfo Velásquez Zavaleta, presiding judge of the Fifth Specialized Constitutional Court of …
This pedagogical guide aims to orient the use of the photo book "Yuyanapaq: para recordar" [Yuyanapaq: To Remember] for educational purposes, helping teachers use the book in the classroom and …
The present research — Entre el estigma y el silencio: memoria de la violencia entre estudiantes de la UNMSM y la UNSCH — deals precisely with one of the institutions …
Eleven years have passed since the presentation of the final report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación. The time elapsed has not dissolved but, on the contrary, has …
The path traveled by the victims, their families, and APRODEH is the book written by Gloria Cano, executive director of the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH). It narrates the situation …
This colloquium is presented as an opportunity to discover and make visible histories that remained hidden, with the aim of questioning the way in which the past and present of …
1. SUMMARY. Memory is recollection — the persistent remembrance of something. Thus, based on the study of various bibliographic, pedagogical, and historical sources, as well as national and international legal …
In our context, all the levels that work on Memory typically encompasses are addressed. There is already a series of reconstructions of what happened at the local level (communities), based …
This article constitutes a progress report of the research project "Reparando ciudadanías: estrategias y sentidos de reconocimiento en Ayacucho post-CVR," which has been underway since January 2013 thanks to funding …
This document has an exploratory character in that it presents advances in understanding a complex social phenomenon such as the memory of the internal armed conflict and its process of …
Ten years after the presentation of the Truth Commission's Report, I believe this is the moment to propose a different look at the testimonies — a perspective from which it …
Paz y Esperanza, together with the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos and the Movimiento Ciudadano Para Que No Se Repita, through this pamphlet, present a brief and straightforward assessment 10 …
This book undertakes the analysis of a selection of poems by six Peruvian authors written in Peru between 1980 and 1992. My reading centers on the premise that there is …
Drawing on a photographic image exhibited in 2003 in the context of the presentation of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (August 2003), which became iconic of …
The objective of this research is to study the meaning of being or feeling like a victim in Peru after the internal armed conflict. More than a study on the …
The Peruvian armed conflict (1980-2000) was clarified through the Truth, and later the Reconciliation, Commission (CVR), established in 2001 by the transitional government headed by Valentín Paniagua. The CVR published …
This text presents a synthesis of the research findings of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and the Ford Foundation: "No hay mañana sin ayer. Batallas por la memoria y consolidación …
"La palabra de los muertos o Ayacucho hora nona" is one of the most significant poetry collections of what has come to be called the period of violence for some, …
"From Victims to Citizens. Memories of political violence in communities of the Pampas river basin" is proof that memory must no longer be understood only as the recollection of pain …
These days much is being discussed in Peru about the so-called Movadef (Movimiento por la Amnistía y Derechos Fundamentales) and its connections with a broad group of organizations and social …
How is it possible that the tragedy experienced by Peruvians has not been processed? Why have we not learned that intolerance, hatred, discrimination, and racism lead to destruction and death? …
Documents related to the campaign organized by the Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones de Afectados por la Violencia Política (CONAVIP) to repeal D.S. 051, which cancels the registration of victims of …
The work presented below is the product of a joint effort by the Grupo Memoria at the IEP, with students from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional …
This book collects and expands upon the images and meanings of the exhibition "Anamnesia: phantasmatic returns of violence" held by Micromuseo during November and December 2012 in the Art Hall …
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 the claim that …
An area of 30 m2 in the Municipal Cemetery for the construction of a Mausoleum and two public memory spaces will be granted by the Municipality of the District of …
To reflect on the contributions of Carlos Iván Degregori to memory studies, I review his bibliography. I find that from the emergence of Sendero Luminoso in the early 1980s, his …
The author is a faculty member in the Department of Social Sciences and academic coordinator of the Graduate School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and in this article …
This is the story of how this work came to be — how from the political activism of publicizing what the forced sterilizations were, I moved to reflecting on them …
On Friday, March 26, 2010, the photographic exhibition Pakasqa Suyu (The Hidden Country): The Paths of Memory and Collective Reparations was inaugurated in the park of Miraflores. The exhibition, funded …
This article analyzes the various narratives circulating in the public sphere about the life and death of María Elena Moyano and how the State attempted to claim ownership of Moyano's …
Called as a witness in the trial of a massacre that took place 24 years ago in Ayacucho. There are things from yesterday that are quickly forgotten, and there are …
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 …
The last time I was in Pichiwillca, the village from which resistance to Sendero Luminoso was organized in the VRAE in the 1980s, the leaders of that overlooked but heroic …
In a few days, on Monday, May 17, thirty years will have passed since the start of the Shining Path insurgency. It began as a sinister flicker of distant shadows …