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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Photos & Videos 50
Terrorism in Peru - Part II
Terrorism in Peru - Part I
Chavín de Huantar: the heroes who gave their lives 17 years ago speak. Report
Why did terrorism begin in Peru?
"Spreading the truth". Documentary.
A day in memory - Blog
Chavín de Huántar: the history
"Three years that changed history". Pro-Fujimori documentary. Part 2
"Chavín de Huántar: at the end of the tunnel". TV film. Part 8
"Chavín de Huántar: at the end of the tunnel". TV film. Part 9
"Chavín de Huántar: at the end of the tunnel". TV film. Part 7
"Chavín de Huántar: at the end of the tunnel". TV film. Part 4
"Chavín de Huántar: at the end of the tunnel". TV film. Part 5
"Chavín de Huántar: at the end of the tunnel". TV film. Part 1
"Chavín de Huántar: at the end of the tunnel". TV film. Part 2
MRTA
"Chavín de Huántar: at the end of the tunnel". TV film. Part 6
"Chavín de Huántar: at the end of the tunnel". TV film. Part 3
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Victims
Messages from the CVR Final Report: The data
Messages from the CVR Final Report: National reconciliation
Women and violence
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Shining Path.
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Truth as a process
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Self-defense committees
Messages from the CVR Final Report: Comprehensive reparations plan
Messages from the CVR Final Report: (IN) Justice
"State of Fear". Documentary. Trailer
Terrorists at Castro Castro
CVR public hearings: Lima. June 2002
CVR public hearings: Lima. July 2002
CVR public hearings: Huanta. April 2002
CVR public hearings: Huancayo and Huancavelica, May 2002
CVR public hearings: Abancay. August 2002
CVR public hearings: Lima. Thematic hearing, violence against women. September 2002
CVR public hearings: Tingo María. August 2002
Testimony before CVR: murder of the residents of the Community of Callqui Nisperocniyocc
CVR public hearings: Trujillo. September 2002
CVR public hearings: thematic hearing on displaced communities. November 2002
CVR public hearings: thematic hearing on violence against the educational community. November 2002
1997
Special Forces commando burns an MRTA flag during Operation Chavín de Huantar
1997
Special Forces commandos rescue the Foreign Minister from the Japanese ambassador's residence
1997
Special Forces commandos rescue two of the hostages from the Japanese ambassador's residence
1997
Special Forces commandos rescue one of the hostages from the Japanese ambassador's residence
1997
Special Forces commandos celebrate the rescue of hostages from the Japanese ambassador's residence
1997
Exhibition of seized MRTA materials
1997
Panoramic view of the Japanese ambassador's residence
1997
Tomb of Néstor Cerpa Cartolini
1996
Presentation of Lucero Cumpa, MRTA leader, at the Callao Naval Base
Documents 50
Militarization of Memory
I strongly recommend the recent book by Carlos Tapia on the period of political violence and the fight against terrorism that affected the country (Tapia, Carlos 2018. Tiempos oscuros, 1983-1995. …
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 …
Political Violence in Peru 1980–2000. Shining Path Against the State and Society. An Essay in the Anthropology of Violence
Text that presents and summarizes the research. "The elaboration of the book La violencia política en el Perú 1980-2000. Sendero Luminoso contra el Estado y la sociedad (Paris, L'Harmattan, May …
Justice Condemns Peru
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) orders the Peruvian State to pay $60,000 in compensation to a female terrorist who was raped and tortured by the police in 1993.
LOS RENDIDOS. AN ESSENTIAL AND UNSETTLING BOOK
Critique of José Carlos Agüero's book.
Public Defense of Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict, a Reality That Cannot Be Stopped
In regions such as Ayacucho, Huánuco, Junín, Huancavelica, Apurímac, Cusco, and others where investigations stemming from the CAI are being pursued, there must be greater political and economic will to …
CASE OF CRUZ SÁNCHEZ AND OTHERS VS. PERU. JUDGMENT OF APRIL 17, 2015
The Court considers that in the present case it is not pertinent to order the payment of economic compensation for non-pecuniary damages on account of the violation of the right …
Chavín de Huántar Case: Inter-American Court Does Not Order Payment of Reparations
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte IDH) ruled against the Peruvian State in the Chavín de Huántar Case. Despite this, the ruling does not order the payment of economic …
The Rescue of Heroes. The "Chavín de Huántar" Case
We all have imprinted in our minds that heroic afternoon when a group of brave commandos stormed the residence of the Japanese Ambassador to rescue seventy-two hostages alive. After one …
Hatun Willakuy. Abbreviated Version of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation
The content of this publication is a translation of the Abbreviated Version of the Peruvian Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission first published in Spanish in February 2004. …
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 …
Ten Years of Truth, Justice and Reparation. Progress, Setbacks and Challenges of an Unfinished Process. Ombudsman Report No. 162
Ombudsman Report No. 162, "Ten Years of Truth, Justice and Reparation. Progress, Setbacks and Challenges of an Unfinished Process," accounts for the efforts undertaken after the delivery of the final …
Let Truth Show Its Power
The Peruvian CVR is a direct heir of the Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP) in Argentina and of the Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) of Guatemala. Its …
The Controversy Over the Figures: The CVR's Overestimates
The main finding of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), ten years ago, was quantitative in nature: the 69,000 fatal victims and the assertion that the main perpetrator …
Ten Years of Truth, Justice and Reparation. Progress, Setbacks and Challenges of an Unfinished Process
Defensoría Report No. 162.
The Dead Man Who Speaks
Just days before the verdict is announced in the alleged murder of MRTA militants who seized the Japanese ambassador's residence in December 1996, the case of Eduardo Cruz Sánchez continues …
The Political in the Theatrical Work "Goodbye Ayacucho" by the Yuyachkani Group and Its Relationship with the Period of Political Violence 1980-2000
Theater arises from a dialogue with social events. In this way, the theater group Yuyachkani was prompted to incorporate political elements into its works, as a response to the period …
Necessary Reflections (From Defeat to Victory or the Return of the Inkari)
Notes for Popular Education. Born as a contribution to analysis and debate in the battle of ideas, it aims to be part of the arsenal for popular education and emancipation. …
Denialism Law or Colonization of Historical Memory?
Prime Minister Juan Jiménez Mayor has proposed an ill-fated "Denial Law" that would criminally penalize any Peruvian citizen who denies that the groups "Sendero Luminoso" ("SL") and "Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac …
Photos: The SIN 'Vultures' in the Chavín de Huántar Operation
More than two thousand photographs taken by members of the Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional before, during, and after Operativo Chavín appear in the case file of the trial being conducted …
A Discrete Choice Approach to Estimating Armed Conflicts' Casualties: Revisiting the Numbers of a 'Truth Commission'
I discuss the application of capture-recapture methods to estimating the total number of deaths in armed conflicts, and propose an alternative method based on a trivariate discrete choice model. Data …
Peruvian State Acknowledged Executions; Chavín de Huántar Commandos Deny Them
According to the CIDH there are indications that 8 terrorists were executed. The Supreme Court of Justice of Peru acknowledged that human rights violations were committed during the rescue of …
Theme and Museological Script of the Place of Memory
Fernando de Szyszlo declared a few days ago that the Armed Forces have an important role in the implementation of the Lugar de la Memoria. He also expressed that the …
The Insurrectional Experience of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
A version of the insurrectional experience of the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) not as an added part of the violence deployed by SL, the Army, and the civilian population, …
Femininity in Women Serving Prison Sentences for the Crime of Terrorism
The objective of this study was to describe the construction of femininity in women serving sentences for the crime of terrorism. The research focused on four areas: (a) the subjective …
In Honor of Truth
This book recounts a reality that comes from within the Army, a branch of the Armed Forces of Peru, whose members faced the challenge of restoring order and securing peace. …
The CVR, Some Reflections Seven Years Later
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) is a great achievement of Peru's democratic transition. The CVR Report, presented to the country on August 28, 2003, consists of 9 volumes with …
Memory of a War. Peru 1980-2000
The central theme of this book is the intense class struggle that took place in Peru during the period 1980–2000, and the positions taken by social classes, political parties, the …
Embodiment and Testimony of the CVR in the Central Andes: The Case of Huasahuasi
This university thesis on the testimony recorded by the CVR during Public Hearings proposes an analysis from literary theory and the interdisciplinarity of the discursive manifestations of these divisions that …
Fleeing Violence and Building. Women and Displacement Due to Political Violence in Peru
This article describes the path to consciousness of which Peruvian women were protagonists during the era of political violence. Spontaneous organizations, formed in the context of forced migration caused by …
The Horizon of Memory
"The sea is a peacemaker," he comments on the coastal landscape of Barranco that he enjoys from the balcony of his apartment — similar, indeed, to that of the privileged …
Shining Path, Tupac Amaru (Peru, leftists)
The two main Peruvian rebel groups, both leftist, are the Maoist group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and the Cuban-inspired Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru). Both organizations operated …
SHINING PATH, TÚPAC AMARU REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (PERU, LEFTISTS)
The two main rebel groups in Peru, both leftist, are the Maoist group Sendero Luminoso and the Cuban-inspired Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA). Both organizations operated most forcefully in the …
Peru Consecrates Its Historical Memory
"This really is excellent news," said writer Mario Vargas Llosa last Friday at his home when his wife handed him a message informing him from Lima that the future Museo …
Whose Memories Are These? The Archive of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The "Centro de Información para la Memoria Colectiva y los Derechos Humanos" began operating in April 2004 and made the documentation of the Comisión de la Verdad available to the …
In the Land of the Dead
REPORT: The trial against Fujimori. For two decades, the confrontation between the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso and the army ravaged Peru. 69,000 people, mostly indigenous peasants from Andean regions such …
A Place Called Dog's Ear
In "Un lugar llamado Oreja de Perro," the story is told of a reporter who is assigned to travel, along with his photographer, to the breathless heights of a depressed …
From Pain and Truth
This article won first place in the NATIONAL JOURNALISM AWARDS CVR+5, organized by the Consejo de Prensa Peruana and the citizen movement Para que no se repita. It recounts gripping …
Listening to Community Voices. A Study on the Implementation of Collective Reparations in Peru
This publication focuses on the Collective Reparations Program, which is currently the only program in the implementation phase, and which is directed at rural and indigenous community populations in 15 …
Barbarism Is Not Fought with Barbarism
During the turbulent years of the internal armed conflict that our country experienced, the human rights organizations grouped in the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos coined the phrase "Barbarism is …
And now it's peace's turn! Analysis of political violence in Peru: 1980-2000, political proposals
This work is the product of observations, notes, reflections, studies, and analyses carried out over several years on the subject of political violence in Peru, which reached its peak during …
Traces of Political Violence and Population Responses
The acts of violence that took place in Peru between 1980 and 2000 have caused serious effects and lasting consequences for Peruvian society. "Consequences" (secuelas), according to the CVR, are …
Justice and Reparation for Women Victims of Sexual Violence in Contexts of Internal Armed Conflict
The document brings together the papers presented at the International Seminar on Justice and Reparations for Women Victims of Sexual Violence in Contexts of Internal Armed Conflict, held in Lima …
García Wields His Own Terrorist Threat
Fear has returned to hundreds of Peruvians who suffered imprisonment on false accusations of belonging to the Maoist organization Sendero Luminoso or the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) during the …
The Truth and Impunity in the Accomarca Case – Peru
Between 1980 and 2000, Peru experienced an episode of political violence, an unprecedented internal armed conflict, which left a painful toll of murders, kidnappings, forced disappearances, torture, unjust detentions, serious …
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 …
In the Dock. Terrorist or Rebel?
Víctor Polay Campos, one of the leaders of the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru, recounts his own story. Among the notable facts, the following can be mentioned: in 1972 he is …
Group Memories: My Pain, Our Hope
This book is the result of years of work by the Centro de Atención Psicosocial (CAPS) with populations affected by the internal armed conflict that Peru experienced between 1980 and …
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 …
Census 2006. Complementary list of persons killed during the armed conflict 1980–2000
This document comprises lists of the dead in alphabetical order and by department, province, district, and settlement. It names the perpetrator, whether a terrorist, member of the Armed Forces, or …