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.
On October 17, 1995, MRTA members recruited a 16-year-old girl. They came, called her and went outside to talk, stayed until almost midnight and then did not return. Her mother did not hear from her until she found out that she participated in the seizure of the Japanese Embassy on …
On February 12, 1993, in the village of Previsto, the body of a girl was found decomposing, with her clothes torn to shreds and signs of having been raped and tortured. The girl had been murdered by members of the PCP-SL as punishment for having refused to participate with the …
Comrade Feliciano of the Shining Path sexually abused girls and women in his camp. He had a security force composed exclusively of women and abused them by force, even beating them. He impregnated the girls and made them have abortions. A female witness who was 11 years old when she …
A 16-year-old minor witness recounts the rapes she suffered during the time she was recruited by the MRTA. A member of the MRTA told her they were going to talk, made her sit down and forcibly grabbed her saying he wanted to be with her. When she refused, he crushed …
An 11-year-old girl was recruited by the MRTA. The subversives taught her how to grab weapons and kill guards without being felt. They told her that if the military showed up, she had to kill them, and if she couldn't, she had to fight. There was no difference between male …
Norma Mansilla Parra was kidnapped at the age of 6 by the Shining Path. At the age of 12 she began armed training. At 15 she was baptized as 'Nelida'. At 19 she was freed by the police. Her testimony talks about her 13 years under the Shining Path, showing …
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Report submitted to the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) at its 138th session by the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos. It addresses the use of children and adolescents in …
Human rights groups condemned on Saturday the use of minors by the armed group Sendero Luminoso in its terrorist activities, as occurred the previous Sunday in its most recent attack, …
Why publish the CVR report on the impact of 20 years of political violence on children in Peru? The answer is simple: no one can doubt that it was precisely …
The mission of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary in Huancapi began during the harshest years of terrorism in our Peru. As is well known, its cradle was the university …
This text is situated within the singularly dramatic framework of political violence, which having erupted in the 1980s extended into the early 1990s. Specifically, it grows from the work experience …
The book brings together the various papers presented at the seminar "Violence, Family and Child," organized in the city of Ayacucho by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad …