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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Martyrs of Uchuraccay. Fragment of the documentary "Traces of the path"
Uchuraccay: 25 years after the murder of journalists in Peru
Uchuraccay in memory
1986
SPECIAL TRIBUNAL ON UCHURACCAY
1984
Mario Vargas Llosa gives his statement in the Uchuraccay case
1984
VARGAS LLOSA AND CASTRO ARENAS IN AYACUCHO
1984
Two of the peasants accused of the murder in Uchuraccay
1984
Peasants accused of the murders at Uchuraccay
1984
ACCUSED OF JOURNALISTS' MURDERS
1983
UCHURACCAY, PHOTO BY WILLY RETTO
1983
Meeting of eight journalists with a peasant from Uchuraccay
1983
In Uchuraccay, Jorge Sedano on his knees and Félix Gavilano with hands raised
1983
Stone wall of the community of Uchuraccay, in Huanta
1983
UCHURACCAY, MURDERED JOURNALISTS
1983
Peasants in the highlands of Huanta
1983
Jorge Sedano, photojournalist for the newspaper La República, days before dying in the Uchuraccay massacre
1983
Amador García and Jorge Sedano receive food from a peasant woman
1983
FUNERAL OF JOURNALISTS MURDERED IN UCHURACCAY
1983
Expressions of grief and outrage during the funerals of the journalists killed at Uchuraccay
1983
Funeral procession of the journalists murdered at Uchuraccay
1983
UCHURACCAY. PHOTO BY WILLY RETTO
1983
Bodies of the 8 journalists murdered in the community of Uchuraccay.
1983
UCHURACCAY, PHOTO BY WILLY RETTO
1983
UCHURACCAY, PHOTO BY WILLY RETTO
1983
Objects handed over by the Uchuraccay community members
1983
Objects handed over by the Uchuraccay community members
1983
UCHURACCAY, PHOTO BY WILLY RETTO
1983
Peasants exhume the victims of the Uchuraccay massacre.
1983
UCHURACCAY, PHOTO BY WILLY RETTO
1983
UCHURACCAY, PHOTO BY WILLY RETTO
1983
UCHURACCAY, PHOTO BY WILLY RETTO
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Everyone Against the Truth! What You Always Wanted to Know About the CVR. Who Does Not Want to Disseminate the CVR Report? Is Shining Path Re-emerging?
Maintaining his direct style, without ambiguities or artifice, Morote unmasks those who attack the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación to conceal their crimes, complicity, or silence committed during the …
Uchuraccay, Vargas Llosa's Nightmare
It has been a long time since Mario Vargas Llosa has referred to Uchuraccay, that horrific episode in the history of Peru that, on January 26, 1983, cost the lives …
Uchuraccay Massacre: The Story of the Guide Who Died with the Eight Journalists
The eight journalists, martyrs of Uchuraccay, murdered on January 26, 1983, have always been justly honored; but what happened to their guide, Juan Argumedo, and to a community member, Severino …
They Live in the Hearts of Those Who Loved Them
On January 26, 1983, eight journalists were killed in a frigid community on the Ayacuchan highlands. The whirlwind of violence then spreading across Peru suddenly engulfed those who had traveled …
Uchuraccay or the Silence of the Killers
The writer and journalist Alfredo Pita recalls that fateful day when he arrived in Uchuraccay immediately after the massacre, about which clear answers are still lacking due to what has …
Uchuraccay, 30 Years Later: The Same Shadows
Thirty years ago (January 26, 1983), eight journalists went to Uchuraccay to try to find out what had happened a week earlier in Huaychau, and to determine whether the official …
Uchuraccay and the Peru profundo of Mario Vargas Llosa
This is a true story that nobody believed when it became public. What happened there — and what was said about what happened there — constitutes an emblematic event for …
Visual Memory in Peru: Photographs from the Uchuraccay Case
On January 26, 1983, eight journalists, a guide, and a community member were murdered in the town of Uchuraccay, located in the highlands of Peru, while investigating the killings carried …
Comparative Analysis of the News Coverage of the Uchuraccay Case in the Newspapers El Comercio, La República, and Diario Marka
In the following investigation, each of the events that left us with reflection and above all a lesson about what it means to carry out journalistic work will be laid …
Uchuraccay: The Perpetual Mourning of the Press
Breathless, senseless: the Uchuraccay massacre and its subsequent politicization have been the worst tragedies in national journalism, without mercy. Every year, Javier Ascue — a leading journalist at El Comercio …
Comparative Analysis of News Coverage in the Newspapers El Comercio, La República, and El Diario Marka in the Uchuraccay Case
The following research captures each of the events that left us with reflection and above all a lesson about what it means to carry out journalistic work. Here, details of …
Comparative Analysis of News Coverage in the Newspapers El Comercio, La República, and El Diario Marka in the Uchuraccay Case
The objective of this monograph is to comparatively determine the level of information provided by the newspapers La República, El diario Marka, and El Comercio regarding the massacre of the …
CHRONICLE: The Uchuraccay Massacre Told from the Inside
Breathless, senseless: the Uchuraccay massacre and its subsequent politicization have been the worst tragedies in national journalism, without mercy. Every year, Javier Ascue, a representative journalist at El Comercio to …
The General's Labyrinth
Twenty-two years after the murder of the eight journalists in Uchuraccay — deaths that were wrongly attributed for years to a decision by General Clemente Noel — Judge Ayala of …
Violence, Memory and Imagination. Uchuraccay and Lucanamarca in Peru's Political Violence
Violence, memory, and representation are the three axes of analysis of this thesis for the degree of Master of Arts (History) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. These levels are …
Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Painful Mirror of Peru
What happened in Peru during the last 20 years of the 20th century that caused violence to produce an enormous number of deaths, which the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) …
Violence, Memory, and Imagination. Uchuraccay and Lucanamarca in Peru's Political Violence
Violence, memory, and representation are the three analytical axes of this thesis for the degree of Master of Arts (History) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. These levels are approached …
Terror, Blood, Death in the Andes: Uchuraccay Silent Witness
"Terror, sangre, muerte en los andes: Uchuraccay mudo testigo" is not a novel, nor is it a fantasy born from the hallucination of feverish or perhaps dreaming states; none of …
Uchuraccay: The Politics of Death in Peru
The events of Uchuraccay — which include the deaths of 135 peasants — allow us to approach the divides that continue to distort Peruvian society. We suggest that the quasi-sacred …
Postcolonial Memory. Time, Space, and Discourse on the Events of Uchuraccay
Today we are at the moment of historicizing the era of violence in Peru. But this does not mean placing events and memories in the past in order to forget …
The Pursuer
Interview with Philip Bennett, an American who is currently the international affairs editor of the Washington Post. Before that, however, he worked in Peru, married a Lima woman of Cusco …
Uchuraccay or The Face of Barbarism. First Edition
The author states in this work: In 1989 I submitted this book (when it was 1,000 pages, 2 volumes) to CONCYTEC, which did not approve it, as that honor had …
Never So Close Did the Distant Strike. Memory and Political Violence in Peru
This work explores the scenario of violence and the ways in which the memory of Uchuraccay operates — a community that, after the massacre, became an emblematic reference point for …
Another Clue to Understanding What Happened in Uchuraccay
On January 23, 1983, General Noel, then the political-military commander of the Ayacucho zone, announced to the press that the villagers of Huaychao had killed seven Senderistas. To find out …
Vargas Llosa Exploited Our Pain
17 years later, the wounds of Uchuraccay are still open. Widows and mothers of the journalists murdered in Ayacucho are outraged when they recall the injustice that the writer covered …
Truth Commissions in Latin America
Most Latin American societies experienced, over the last four decades, ongoing situations of violence and internal conflict, due to serious conditions of injustice and economic and social inequality. Faced with …
High Risk. 13 Years Since the Uchuraccay Massacre and 22 Unresolved Cases
On January 26, thirteen years ago, the community of Iquicha, in the jurisdiction of Uchuraccay, was the scene of the massacre of eight journalists who, in their eagerness to document …
History of a Massacre
"Inquest in the Andes." This article was published on July 31, 1983 in the New York Times Magazine and subsequently, in 1991, the Spanish version appeared in "Sangre y mugre …
The Writer Insists on the Innocence of the Military
Judge Hermenegildo Ventura Huayhua will cause a national scandal in Peru in the coming days when he charges, as he himself has announced, the armed forces with the murder of …
Perpetrators of the Massacre Were Transferred to Ayacucho
Front page of El Comercio. February 2, 1983. Other headlines: Among them the Lieutenant Governor and several women. Lima gives a massive farewell to the murdered journalists. Relatives, upset at …
Massacre of Journalists in Huanta
Published January 31, 1983. Other headlines on the same page: Responsibility lies with the comuneros. Announced by the political-military command of the emergency zone. Uchurracai (sic) is characterized by conflict …
Uchuraccay. Testimony of a Massacre
Before January 26, 1983, no one knew where Uchuraccay was — a locality in the province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho. After that date, it was discovered that it "existed," …
The Tragedy of Uchuraccay: Report on Shining Path
Uchuraccay has not been the subject of any systematic study; in the mid-1980s an anthropological expedition from the Universidad de Huamanga, led by Professor Mario Benavides, made a frustrated attempt …
Report of the Investigative Commission on the Events of Uchuraccay
During the following months, Uchuraccay continued to be the scene of violence, death, and desolation: one hundred and thirty-five community members were killed as a result of attacks by the …
Report on Uchuraccay
Full report on the background, events, and consequences that took place in the community of Uchuraccay, resulting in the deaths of eight members of the national press, presented to the …
Vargas Llosa Defends His Report on the Murder of Eight Journalists in Ayacucho
Mario Vargas Llosa, president of the independent commission that investigated the murders of eight journalists in Ayacucho, believes that the recently discovered photographs confirm the commission's conclusions that the reporters …
Government Named Commission to Investigate Massacre
Front page of El Comercio. Thursday, February 3, 1983.
Journalists' Remains Were Buried in Separate Ceremonies
Wednesday, February 2, 1983. Other headlines: Relatives did not allow the coffins to be used for political ends. Cardinal calls for an investigation into the Uchuraccai massacre. Condolence messages continue …
Death of Eight Journalists in Uchuraccay Confirmed
Front page of El Comercio. Monday, January 31, 1983. Other headlines: Due to a misunderstanding, comuneros confused them with terrorists.
Report of the Investigative Commission on the Events at Uchuraccay.
The report — signed by Mario Vargas Llosa, Abraham Guzmán Figueroa, and Mario Castro Arenas — is divided into four parts. The first, under the title "How It Happened," reconstructs …