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.
Amnesty International published a report dedicated to disappearances, murders and torture in Peru. The report provoked an angry and undiplomatic protest from the Peruvian Foreign Ministry. This international document highlighted the grave human rights situation in the country during the internal armed conflict. The Peruvian government's reaction reflected the existing …
On September 8, 1988, in the Senate, Minister Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre announced the government's decision to initiate contacts with international financial organizations. This announcement takes place in a context of severe economic crisis, days after a major food shortage that generated strong public protests. On September 23, Peru formally returned …
On July 16, 1985, the Working Commission on Involuntary Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights arrived in Lima. This visit took place in a context where Amnesty International had distributed a communiqué in January of that year stating that more than a thousand people had disappeared …
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