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.
In November 2001, Heriberto Benitez Rivas, President of the Human Rights Commission of the Congress, called for an investigation into a mass grave in Putis, Ayacucho. This followed a report in Diario La República alleging the existence of a grave containing the remains of a hundred villagers. The investigation targeted …
In July 1987, five community members were murdered in Putis, a locality in the district of San José de Santillana in the province of Huanta. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the region, during a period of relative calm between 1985 …
In December 1984, a hundred campesinos from the communities of Putis, Cayramayo, Vizcatampata, and Rodeo were extrajudicially executed by military personnel stationed in Putis. The military suspected the campesinos of being linked to the PCP-SL due to the group's frequent movements in the area. Additionally, the military sought to seize …
In November 1984, military forces established bases in Putis and Ayahuanco District in response to increased subversive activities by Sendero Luminoso. The military convinced local villagers to relocate to Putis under the pretense of providing protection and improving their quality of life. However, upon arrival, the villagers were forced to …
On September 15, 1984, soldiers from the Putis Base entered the annex of the same name in Ayacucho. The next day they continued with the massacre in the annex. Most of the women were raped before being killed. One young woman was saved from this massacre and was not killed …
117 people - men, women, children - were killed in the community of Putis, presumably at the hands of the military. Most of the villages in the area had been forced by the PCP-SL since 1983 to 'retreat' to the hills. When the Military Base was installed in Putis, a …
In September 1984, 117 people, including men, women, and children, were killed in the community of Putis, allegedly by military forces. The massacre occurred after the local population, previously forced by the Shining Path (PCP-SL) to retreat to the hills to avoid military patrols, decided to surrender to the military. …
On September 15, 1984, soldiers from the Putis Base entered the annex of the same name in Ayacucho. The next day they continued with the massacre in the annex. According to testimonies collected by the CVR, most of the women were raped before being killed. One young woman was saved …
On July 16, 1983, military personnel detained Putis community members Oswaldo Fernández Cusiche, Maximiliana Quispe Fernández, Vidal Farfán Fernández and Víctor Fernández Huayllasco. They were taken to a helicopter with an unknown destination. They are still missing. The incident was denounced by the Association for Human Rights (Aprodeh). This operation …
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This book is an incursion into the archive of testimonies about the political violence that occurred in Peru between 1980 and 2000, fundamental and little-studied material to date. The archive …
For the past 15 days, two narco-terrorist incursions have been disturbing the mourning that this community still lives through, decimated since 1983 by the terrorist group Shining Path and the …
The population of Huanta, a province in the Ayacucho region, today received with a large mobilization of authorities, public institutions, students, and human rights organizations 92 coffins of victims of …
The remains of 18 people, including five minors, believed to belong to persons who disappeared since 1984 in the Peruvian region of Ayacucho, were exhumed from two graves in the …
In an interview with Terra magazine, the Director of the Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (EPAF), José Pablo Baraybar, noted that following the initial burial of the victims of the …
The CVR report, six years later. This Saturday, the remains of 25 of the 123 people — men, women, and children — who have been identified after nearly twenty-five years …
The remains of 92 civilians were buried a quarter of a century after the Putis massacre, in Peru, one of the most tragic events of the armed conflict that pitted …
Under the motto "Justice and solidarity for Putis, a dignified burial," the families of the victims of the Putis massacre — which took place in Ayacucho in December 1984 — …
When Sendero Luminoso began its bloodthirsty actions, it had the community of Putis — and the surrounding ones — in its sights. In 1983 it murdered its lieutenant governor, leaving …
Last Friday, June 26, in the city of Ayacucho, while I was heading to buy my return ticket to Lima, I heard the moaning of a guitar and the nostalgic …
Putis, a small and extremely poor rural settlement in Huanta, Ayacucho, relives the genocidal horror of the war and of the counter-subversive strategy used against the brutal Shining Path terror …
At a ceremony to be held on August 29 in the rural community of Putis, Ayacucho, a wake will be held for the remains of more than 120 peasants killed …
Twenty-five years after the massacre of approximately one hundred peasants in Putis, Ayacucho, documentary evidence has emerged confirming that the Army established a military base in that community and that …
Despite eight years having passed since the Ministerio Público began investigations into the Putis massacre, which occurred in 1984 in Ayacucho, the Fiscalía Penal Supranacional of that region has not …
A unanimous rejection was sparked among journalists and representative press organizations by the attitude displayed last Wednesday by Defense Minister Rafael Rey toward our colleague Vilma Escalante, because the journalist …
Defense Minister Rafael Rey faces his most difficult moment since taking office due to the controversial purchase of Chinese tanks. In that context, he clashed verbally with a journalist from …
Amid heartbreaking scenes of grief, representatives of the Ministerio Público handed over the remains of 92 victims killed in the massacre that occurred in Putis, Ayacucho, on December 13, 1984. …
The lawyer for the families of the victims of the Putis massacre (1984), Milton Campos, called it unacceptable that the Ministerio de Defensa (MINDEF) refuses to hand over the roster …
Drawing on some recent discoveries about the functioning of episodic memory, this essay reflects on the ways in which the contemplation of certain objects can function as a stimulus for …
Putis remains a poor peasant community in the highlands of Ayacucho, where on December 13, 1984, more than one hundred people (close to 400 according to some accounts), mostly children …
The Defensora del Pueblo, Beatriz Merino, expressed her dismay at the fact that, to date, no one has been sanctioned for the crimes committed in the community of Putis, Ayacucho, …
After 24 years, twenty-eight of the 92 peasants murdered by soldiers in the Ayacucho village of Putis have been identified and buried, thanks to the painstaking work of the Equipo …
As the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is aware, the context in which enforced disappearance in Peru is situated is characterized by a structural weakness of the State …
The only thing that seems to interest the detractors of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) is that the responsibility of members of the security forces in human …
Three days on the unpaved roads of Ayacucho help one experience, in one's back and kidneys, a small part of the endless drama in that department. The distance between districts …
Army Commander General Edwin Donayre abandoned last Tuesday his repeated commitment to the ongoing human rights investigations and chose to upend the table: "Excesses and human rights violations must be …
The bodies were not difficult to locate, as they lay just below the surface. But the peasants of the southern Peruvian community of Putis had to persevere for 24 years …
A forensic team in Peru finished excavating a few weeks ago four mass graves in an area called Putis, in the province of Ayacucho (in the south of the country), …
Reporters from the newspaper La República located, on Friday the 16th, one of the largest clandestine mass graves from the era of violence. The burial site conceals the remains of …
