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.
Testimony collected by the CVR in September 2002 in Lima, where the declarant narrates his experience of imprisonment in Chiclayo. This testimony is part of the cases analyzed on imprisonment and detentions during the internal armed conflict. Detentions became a way of terrorizing the population, meaning not only the restriction …
From his prison in the Callao naval base and after conversations between Shining Path leaders facilitated by the Fujimori government, Abimael Guzmán proposed a Peace Agreement to the State, which did not materialize but served for propaganda purposes for the Fujimori regime on the eve of the referendum to approve …
During the violence of 1992 in the Canto Grande Prison, there were cases of rape against inmates. A female witness reports that she witnessed shots fired at fellow inmates and was a direct witness to sexual violence during these events. The testimony mentions: 'Right in front of me they shoot …
Simeón Auccatoma Quispe, a member of the Uchuraccay community and one of the three defendants arrested for the massacre of journalists on January 26, 1983, died in prison of tuberculosis contracted in the Lurigancho prison. During the oral trial, Auccatoma Quispe was extremely affected and submissive, bursting into tears several …
There was a massacre of prisoners accused or sentenced for terrorism in Lima's prisons. After this event, the demand for truth and justice was explicitly raised by a broad coalition of civil society organizations united around the nascent National Human Rights Coordinating Committee. These organizations demanded a comprehensive and clear …
In 1986 there was a prisoner riot in Lima prisons that resulted in multiple deaths. The report specifically mentions that five people from the Chungui area died during this riot. This event occurred in the context of the Peruvian internal armed conflict, when many accused of belonging to the PCP-Sendero …
Simeón Aucatoma Quispe, varayoc of the Uchuraccay community, was arrested on July 20, 1983 as one of only three community members captured in the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre of January 26, 1983. He was accused along with sixteen other community members for the murder of eight journalists. During …
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