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 January 27, 1992, the Senate of the Republic approved by majority a bill repealing twelve legislative decrees on national pacification that had been enacted by the Executive Branch. At the same time, the Senate presented other bills which, with the same pacification objective, had a true democratic character according …
The senatorial commission on pacification presents a harsh balance sheet on the social cost of political violence in the country during 1991. This report was presented in the context of intense confrontations between the Executive Branch and the Congress, particularly on issues of national pacification and legislative decrees. The balance …
On November 28, 1991, the Senate approved a law regulating the peasant and urban patrols, defining them as popular, peaceful and democratic organizations. The main purposes established in this law are self-defense and active collaboration with national pacification. This legislation sought to regulate and provide a legal framework for the …
On November 15, 1991, the Ministers of the Interior and Defense appeared again before the Senate Committee. General Briones Davila denied the existence of the 'Ambulant Operations Plan' and the 'Lima Sheraton Surveillance Post', based on documents from DIRCOTE and the General Staff of the Armed Forces. In view of …
On November 10, 1991, the Senate Human Rights Commission summoned former Ministers of the Interior and Defense, Generals Juan Briones Davila and Victor Malca Villanueva, to report on the Barrios Altos massacre. The ministers presented three hypotheses about the perpetrators (Shining Path, MRTA or outside organizations) but categorically denied the …
On September 4, 1990, the Senate of the Republic of Peru appointed an investigative commission in response to the denunciations presented by Congressman Fernando Olivera Vega two days earlier. Olivera Vega had presented recordings and transcriptions of conversations between politicians that had been intercepted by elements of the National Intelligence …
Senator Enrique Bernales Ballesteros, on behalf of the Special Commission on Pacification, which he chairs, presented a detailed report to the Senate on the problem of subversion in Peru. The report analyzes the causes of the subversive phenomenon from the social, political and economic angles. Bernales presents recommendations to put …
Meeting convened by the Pacification Commission of the Senate of the Republic where Luis Rodríguez-Mariátegui, representative of CONFIEP, spoke about the situation of subversion in the enterprises. He used the case of COPE as an illustrative example, describing how the factory takeover had been previously announced at a plenary meeting …
On February 2, 1988, in the absence of the full opposition, the Senate approved to authorize the Executive to issue the necessary legislative decrees to interpret the two articles of the bank nationalization law, which the Executive sent to Parliament for interpretation. This approval came at the end of an …
The Senate of the Republic of Peru ratified the appointment of Luz Áurea Sáenz as Comptroller General of the Republic. Likewise, in the same session, the appointment of Pedro Coronado Labó as president of the board of directors of the Central Reserve Bank (BCR) was ratified. These ratifications took place …
Interior Minister Luis Pércovich Roca spoke in the Senate about the Oropesa case. This case referred to the detention of Jesús Oropesa Chonta, who had been arrested on July 27, 1984 by members of the Civil Guard on an alleged terrorism complaint in Puquio, Ayacucho. The disappearance of the peasant …
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