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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1817 2003
  1. Vladimiro Montesinos' flight to Panama

    Former advisor Vladimiro Montesinos Torres escapes from the country to Panama. On October 22 he left the country at 6:39 p.m. accompanied by three people aboard a ship. The reason for leaving Panama may have been the delay of the Panamanian government in granting him asylum in the face of …

    Panamá Informe CVR, páginas 5018-5019
  2. Disclosure of the Octavio Plan for surveillance of journalists

    On April 30, 1999, Baruch Ivcher revealed in a telephone communication with CCN the existence of the Octavio Plan, documented by La República on May 10, 1999. Conceived in June 1996, the plan contemplated the surveillance and persecution of 20 journalists and media businessmen including Ivcher, Hildebrandt, Miró Quesada Cisneros …

    Lima, Perú Informe CVR, página 1163
  3. Mesmer Carles denounces Colina Group and murder of Pedro Huilca

    Former National Intelligence Service (SIN) agent Mesmer Carles Talledo made serious allegations in the media regarding the Colina Group and the Intelligence Service. Carles Talledo blamed the Colina Group for the murder of union leader Pedro Huilca. Fernando Olivera proposed an investigative commission but the majority disqualified the testimony and …

    Lima, Perú Informe CVR, página 905
  4. Motion to investigate military situation of La Cantuta convicts

    Congressmen from different parties proposed to Congress to appoint an investigative commission on the military situation and the relationship with the Armed Forces and the National Intelligence Service of those who were sentenced for the murder of a teacher and nine students of La Cantuta, as well as those who …

    Congreso de la República, Lima, Perú Informe CVR, página 903
  5. Illegal Detention of Samuel Dyer Ampudia

    On the night of July 27, 1992, businessman Samuel Dyer Ampudia was illegally detained at Jorge Chávez Airport by Major PNP Migdonio Torres Aliaga by order of Colonel PNP Víctor Arcila Dupp. He was handed over to PNP Colonel Carlos Domínguez Solís of the SIN, who transferred him to the …

    Aeropuerto Jorge Chávez y Comandancia General del Ejército (Pentagonito), Lima, Perú Informe CVR, páginas 3816-3825
  6. Disappearance of La Cantuta students and teacher

    There was a military raid on the student residence of the Enrique Guzmán y Valle University that ended with the kidnapping and disappearance of nine students and a professor. This operation was carried out by a group of SIE agents not stationed in the area and directed from the SIN, …

    Universidad Enrique Guzmán y Valle, La Cantuta, Lima, Perú Informe CVR, página 764
  7. Congress repeals legislative decrees

    In the few days remaining until the closing of the ordinary legislature on December 15, Congress repealed 6 decrees, including 746, the National Intelligence System Law, because it left the Intelligence Service outside any democratic control. In response, the President observed these repeals and did not promulgate them. Then on …

    Lima, Perú Informe CVR, páginas 562-563
  8. Appointment of commission of inquiry into paramilitary groups

    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 …

    Perú Informe CVR, página 184
  9. Telephone tapping reported

    Congressman Fernando Olivera Vega presented before Congress recordings and transcriptions of conversations held between politicians that had been intercepted by elements of the National Intelligence Service (SIN). These interceptions constituted a kind of telephone espionage of political figures in the country. As a consequence of this denunciation, on September 4, …

    Perú Informe CVR, página 184

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