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 documenting the somatic and physical manifestations associated with the psychological trauma caused by political violence. The witness reports suffering fainting spells and intense brain pains when recalling the traumatic events. The testimony illustrates how the memory of the massacres and the violence experienced generates immediate physical symptoms, including stomach …
The testimony refers to murders that occurred in Ocros, province of Huamanga, department of Ayacucho. The declarants were women witnesses of these murders. The event is documented in the context of testimonies on somatic manifestations associated with traumatic memory, where the witnesses reported stomach pains when recalling the massacres. The …
The affiant witnessed murders in the town of Rayana, San Miguel, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony describes experiences of extreme violence and its profound psychological effects on the victims. The declarant relates how after witnessing these violent events, she experienced a deep trauma expressed in the phrase "not even the …
The affiant witnessed murders in the town of Rayama, located in San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimonies refer to the extreme violence experienced in the area and the profound psychological impact on the survivors. The testimony describes how after these violent events, the people were …
Testimony of a person who recounts the devastating consequences of political violence on his life and that of his family. The affiant describes how she was left in a situation of extreme poverty and psychological trauma, spending her days in tears and unable to recover economically. She describes how she …
Testimony collected in Sicuani in October 2002 where the affiant expresses how he resorted to alcohol consumption as a mechanism to cope with the pain and grief caused by political violence. The phrase "I will kill the pain with a drink" reflects the use of substances as a palliative in …
The testimony recounts the murder of a cousin in Santo Tomás, Chumbivilcas, Cuzco. The witness recounts the traumatic impact this murder had on her son, who witnessed the death of his sister and was completely disappointed. The young man barely finished high school and then did not want to continue …
A resident of Moya, Huancavelica, Huancavelica suffered the murder of her parents and other family members by members of the Armed Forces. The testimony was collected in Lima in January 2003. This case illustrates the victims' adaptive attempts that included passivity and accommodation to the new situation following the violence. …
Wilmer, a 3-year-old boy, witnessed the murder of his parents by the Shining Path. They threw a machete at his mother's belly and there was a lot of blood, and they put a bullet in his father's head. The boy wanted them to get up but they wouldn't talk to …
Shining Path murdered the parents of one affiant in the plaza de armas, leaving eight siblings orphaned. The affiant describes the event as painful and a total trauma for all who witnessed the savagery, killing the father with no compassion for the eight siblings who were left orphaned and adrift. …
On August 28, 1989, Mariano Huyhua Calluchi, a community delegate from Sañayca appointed by the military, was detained, tortured and disappeared by soldiers from the Capaya Base after being accused by community members of collaborating with terrorists. His relatives took food and drinks to the base to ask for his …
An 8-year-old girl witnessed her parents and older siblings being beaten by the Shining Path. The children began to scream but out of fear they had to stay quiet. Many urinated and relieved themselves on their clothes. Despite the girl's pleas for mercy and compassion, they killed her mother and …
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