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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Interview with Cesáreo Calderón - Father of John Calderón Ríos (Pativilca Case)
Interview with Maria Luisa Tello - Granddaughter of Santiago Tello (Cayara Case)
Interview with Tania Pariona - Pativilca Case Hearing
Ada Ochoa Solano - Widow of Felandro Castillo Manrique - Pativilca Case (Caraqueño)
Doris Caqui Calixto - Memorial at The Eye That Cries
Peru: what remains of the Shining Path guerrilla?
Tribute to Mamá Angélica - Part II
Documentary about 'Mamá Angélica', a courageous woman from Ayacucho
Tribute to Mamá Angélica
ANFASEP Memory "So that it is not repeated"
Ayacucho: 'mamá Angélica' is buried with a massive funeral procession
Government ministers participated in posthumous tribute to "mamá Angélica"
Memory, impunity and truth | V Peruvian Human Rights Congress
Ayacucho: Justice and Culture ministers attended the wake of 'Mamá Angélica'
"Mama Anqui" (Angélica Mendoza): in memory
'Mamá Angélica' recounts the kidnapping of her son, Arquímides Escarza, in 1983
Tribute paid to 'mamá Angélica' in Lima
Mamá Angelica "Memory for the absent"
"Walkers of Memory". Documentary film.
Memory Sanctuary. Project.
Testimony of Gladis Felicitas Tello Merino
Jaynapuncha Pajarin (Yesterday and tomorrow)
Testimony of Eugenia Quispe Sánchez
Willakusqaykichik kunan (I want to tell you something) - Documentary
Lirio Qasa - Song
Testimony of Ramiro Niño de Guzmán
Testimony of Toribia Casa Carrasco
Testimony of Igidia Arullca Oscco
Testimony of Cirila Súñiga Quispe
Testimony of Faustina Huamán Junco
Puntaman puririsu (We keep moving forward) - Documentary
Manzana lote - Documentary
"Ombudsman Medal" awarded to Doña Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza "Mamá Angélica"
Other memories: Graphics against the dictatorship. Álvaro Portales.
The secret life of Abimael Guzmán - Second part
Other memories: The fighter.
Why did terrorism begin in Peru?
Other memories: Memory. Gabriela Flores.
The secret life of Abimael Guzmán - First part
Huanta 840 - Documentary
Paths - Documentary
A day in memory - Blog
Other memories: Mama Quilla. Arpilleras from Huaycán
Museum or Place of Memory in Peru: a historical fraud?
Tragedy in Ayacucho - Photographs
"It's Christmas and we are still waiting for them". 2/2
"It's Christmas and we are still waiting for them". 1/2
Forgetting or memory. Report
Mausoleum requested in Ayacucho to honor victims of the armed conflict
Documents 50
Human Rights Organizations Commemorated the 15th Anniversary of the Delivery of the CVR Report
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 …
Victims' Organizations and Justice Policies. Building a Humanitarian Approach to the Search for Disappeared Persons.
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's Final Journey
"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, …
Life Testimony of Mamá Angélica – Transcription
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, …
'Mamá Angélica': The Life That Clung to Hope
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 …
Angélica: Mother of Memory
"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 …
From Huamanga, the Death of Mamá Angélica and the Commemoration of the Delivery of the Final Report
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 Funerals of Mamá Angélica
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 …
'Mamá Angélica': Farewell to the Champion of the Disappeared of Los Cabitos
"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 …
Mamá Angélica: My Hero
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 …
The Death of Mamá Angélica Reminds Us Why Memory Will Always 'Offend' Some
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 …
Life Testimony of Mamá Angélica (Quechua)
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 …
CNDDHH Welcomes Verdict Recognizing the Multiple Harm Suffered by Victims of the Armed Conflict
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 …
Pedagogical Guide for the Use of Yuyanapaq: To Remember
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 …
Between Stigma and Silence. Memory of Violence Among Students of UNMSM and UNSCH
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 …
CVR: For a Memory That Liberates Us
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 …
Los Cabitos Barracks: A Place of Horror and Death
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 …
Class, Gender and Peacebuilding in Peru (1961–2014). Colloquium
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 …
CONSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN'S MEMORY
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 …
Memorology
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 …
"You May Be Able to Fool Me, But Lima Will Be Watching You, Evaluating You. Lima Decides." An Ethnographic Look at the Comprehensive Reparations Program
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 …
Open Secrets. Memory and Education in Public Schools in Lima and Ayacucho
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 …
Cultural Heritage and Memory: Ten Years Later, a New Look at the Testimonies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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 …
10 Years CVR. Learning from What Was Lived
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 …
Poetry and Internal War in Peru, 1980-1992: a study of poets and civil war in Peru. Summary and prologue in English.
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 …
Twice Dead: The Story of the Image and Life of Celestino Ccente or Edmundo Camana
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 …
And After the Violence, What Remains? Victims, Citizens and Reparations in the Post-CVR Context in Peru
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 …
Wooden Dead and Ink Like Blood: The Construction of the Peruvian Nation-State from the Reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a Monument of Memory
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 …
Peru: The Past Is Present
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 …
The Word of the Dead or Ayacucho at the Ninth Hour
"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
"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 …
Movadef: Political Radicalism and Intergenerational Relations
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 …
The Urgency of Working on Historical Memory in Schools
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? …
Campaign to Repeal Executive Decree 051 That Cancels the Registration of Victims of the Political Violence Suffered During the Years 1980 and 2000
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 …
Family and Intergenerational Transmission of Memories of the Internal Armed Conflict in Ayacucho
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 …
Anamnesis. Ghostly Returns of Violence
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 …
Military on Trial in the Los Cabitos Case: Heroes or Amnesiacs?
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 …
El Santa: Municipality Grants a Place for the Eternal Rest of the Nine Peasants
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 …
Violence and Memory in the Work of Carlos Iván Degregori
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 …
Making Memory
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 …
Forced Sterilizations in Peru. Women's Time and Their Memory
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 …
THE HIDDEN COUNTRY. Photographic Exhibition
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 …
The Uses and Abuses of the Memory of María Elena Moyano
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 …
Memories of Pomatambo
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 …
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 …
Memory and Tolerance
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 Chuschi, Thirty Years Ago
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 …