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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Twenty-Five Stories Not to Forget
This collection of testimonies gathered and selected by the author during his time in Ayacucho between 1987 and 1991, in the midst of the internal armed conflict, constitutes a valuable …
Terrorists in the VRAE Bury Children in Mass Graves
"From a very young age they took me to the jungle. They forced me to have children. They (the ringleaders) said: You are single, you join (the terrorist column) to …
Remains of Another 20 Victims Exhumed in Chungui
The remains of 20 more people — including 10 children — killed at the Chungui base between 1983 and 1989 were exhumed by forensic experts from the specialized forensic team …
Children Used as Soldiers in Peru
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 …
THE SAD STORY OF A SHINING PATH CHILD
Alcides V.C. (age 8) is one of two children who on January 26 were freed from the clutches of Sendero Luminoso in the Valle de los Ríos Apurímac y Ene …
The Children of Ayacucho. An Anthropology of Adoption and Family Building in Peru
This valuable ethnographic study analyzes those informal arrangements by which Andean children are sent by their parents to live in new households. At first glance, the "circulation" of children may …
The Government Condemned Shining Path's Recruitment of Children
The head of the Peruvian Council of Ministers, Yehude Simon, condemned today the recruitment of children by Sendero Luminoso, after a television channel broadcast footage on Sunday showing minors in …
Human Rights Groups Condemn the Use of Children by Shining Path in Peru
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, …
Communiqué: Ombudsman's Office Strongly Condemns Recruitment of Minors for Terrorist Activities
The Defensoría del Pueblo issued a communiqué today in which it EXPRESSES, before public opinion, its most profound REJECTION of the use of minors in terrorist activities, as was observed …
Violence against girls and boys
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 …
Incense and Broom
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 …
Between Play and War. Psychological and Sociocultural Resources of Asháninka Children in the Face of Political Violence
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 …
Solidarity Campaign with the Displaced Brothers and Sisters Who Are Victims of Violence
This work discusses the relationship between the Catholic Christian message and the situation of peasant families who were forced to leave their place of origin due to the political violence …
The Children of the War
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 …