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 the trial following the Accomarca massacre, the Permanent War Council of the Second Judicial Zone of the Army acquitted Telmo Hurtado of charges including qualified homicide, negligence, and disobedience, convicting him only of abuse of authority. The court sentenced him to six years in prison and a fine, arguing …
The military trial began following the massacre of sixty-nine civilians during a military operation in Accomarca, Peru. Sub-Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado and other military personnel were implicated in the crimes of abuse of authority and homicide. The trial highlighted issues of justice denial, with accusations of negligence and falsification against Hurtado, …
In 1985, the Peruvian Congress investigated the Accomarca massacre, where multiple campesinos, including women and minors, were killed. The Senate concluded that the incidents were common crimes rather than military ones. Telmo Hurtado, the direct perpetrator, justified his actions during the congressional investigation, showing no remorse.
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After several decades, the perpetrators of this massacre are finally convicted, but not all of them. General Zapata was acquitted.
The Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación established that on August 14, 1985, an Army patrol belonging to the "Lince" company of Huamanga, under the command …
The streets around the Castro Castro prison, located in the upper part of the district of San Juan de Lurigancho on the outskirts of Lima, are made of dirt and …
Requests 25 years in prison for the perpetrators of an execrable crime and 14 million soles in reparations for victims. The prosecutor of the third superior criminal chamber of Lima, …
Today, while Cirila, Justa, and Teófila — three survivors of the Accomarca massacre — remind members of Congress — especially those from Apra — that 25 years have passed since …
Without justice. In 1984, three army patrols killed 69 children, women, and elderly people. Survivors and relatives demand punishment for the criminals who are about to be released from prison. …
The central theme of this book is the intense class struggle that took place in Peru during the period 1980–2000, and the positions taken by social classes, political parties, the …
For Peruvians Teófila Ochoa and Cirila Pulido, coming face to face with retired Major Telmo Hurtado, dressed in prison clothes and with shackles on his ankles, was the closest thing …
More than two decades later, justice began to detain the soldiers, like Contreras, who under the command of then-lieutenant Telmo Hurtado swept through Accomarca with fire and blood, killing 16 …
Between 1980 and 2000, Peru experienced an episode of political violence — an unprecedented internal armed conflict — that left a painful toll of murders, kidnappings, forced disappearances, torture, unjust …
It was August 14, 1985, when an army patrol commanded by Second Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado arrived at the district of Accomarca, in Ayacucho. The military patrol forced a large group …
On August 14, 1985, a heinous crime shook Ayacucho. The community of Accomarca, located in the province of Vilcashuamán, was the scene where the blood of community members was mingled …
Sixteen years after the fierce massacre in Accomarca, peasants open the mass graves and break their silence. Sixty-nine people — among them twenty-three children, many elderly people, and some pregnant …
The farmers of Accomarca, the Ayacuchan district, have been awaiting justice for nearly sixteen years. This August 14 will mark another anniversary of the massacre that wiped out more than …
Following our report on Telmo Hurtado and the presidential decision to discharge him, we received the document reproduced below. It is signed by a FREMOFFAA, apparently "Frente de Moralización de …
SUB-LIEUTENANT TELMO HURTADO HURTADO, ACCOMARCA — MAJOR RICARDO HURTADO HURTADO, EL MILAGRO. It would be too serious: Telmo Hurtado, unlike those who later followed his example (Martin Rivas and company), …
The Shining Path attacks following the promulgation of the Amnesty Law and the Barrios Altos law show that the counter-insurgency war is far from over. The car-bomb attack on Víctor …
The Amnesty Law bill emerged, in the middle of the night, from the folder of congressman Gilberto Siura. "This is the same parliamentarian who presented the disgraceful ruling on the …
The chargé d'affaires received reports that Captain Telmo Hurtado is not under detention, despite a six-year prison sentence resulting from the Accomarca case. The chargé said that the case affects …
Contains a report according to which Army Captain Telmo Hurtado, who was found guilty of the 1985 Accomarca massacre, is still on active duty and is not imprisoned. In February …
This document relates evidence that Captain Telmo Hurtado, who had been convicted in the 1985 Accomarca Massacre, is still on active duty and not in prison. The Embassy comments that …