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.
The witness recounts the murder of her husband in Huaytara, Huancavelica. The testimony was collected in November 2002 at the Central Regional Headquarters. This case is part of the multiple murders documented during the internal armed conflict in the Huancavelica region. The testimony reflects the emotional and psychological impact that …
Testimony collected in Lima during October 2002 about the murder of the affiant's father in Huamanga, Ayacucho. The affiant recounts the physical and emotional consequences she suffered after her father's death, including serious health problems. The testimony is part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's documentation on the impacts of …
Testimony collected by the CVR in October 2002 in Ayacucho. The declarant narrates the murders of some of her relatives that occurred in Sivia, province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho. The testimony is part of the documentation on the psychological impacts of violence, specifically related to feelings of humiliation and …
A woman testified before the TRC in September 2002 about the murder of her relatives in Hatuncungullo, San Pedro de Cachi, province of Huamanga, department of Ayacucho. The testimony is part of the documentation compiled by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on human rights violations during the internal armed conflict. …
On June 1, 2002, the population of Uchuraccay handed over to the representatives of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission the "List of murdered Uchuraccaínos". This list was elaborated in two communal assemblies and documented the deaths of one hundred and thirty-five community members killed during the internal armed conflict. These …
In May 2002, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission visited the community of Uchuraccay. Upon learning of the Commission's arrival, some community members initially thought that it was going to "judge them for the massacre of the journalists" that took place in 1983. Once they overcame their initial mistrust, the community …
In May 2002, the villagers of Uchuraccay handed over to the members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a list with the names of 135 Uchuraccaínos who died as a result of political violence between 1983 and 1984. This delivery was part of the TRC's documentation work on the victims …
Primitivo Quispe gave testimony at a public hearing organized by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Ayacucho. His testimony is part of the thousands of testimonies compiled by the TRC that give an account of the feeling of exclusion and indifference experienced by the people and communities that were the …
At 8:30 in the morning of May 6, 1992, Juan Bardales Rengifo became the first victim of the Castro Castro operation when he was shot while struggling with a policeman near the gate of the lookout point. The inmate died as a result of the shot.
On August 22, 1991, the long teachers' strike was suspended. According to the newspaper La República, 2,000 teachers were arrested, twenty disappeared and 15 were murdered. The SUTEP Human Rights Secretariat attributed the deaths, which occurred in towns in a state of emergency, to the PCP-SL (5), paramilitary forces (4), …
One dead and 18 wounded in a car bomb explosion on Maruri Street, Cuzco city. The next day the owner of the vehicle, former police sergeant Melitón Candia Guzmán, was found dead. This attack was evidence of the urban violence that affected the cities during the conflict.
The residents of Huaycán carried out a mobilization that was harshly repelled by the police with tear gas and counter-demonstration vehicles. One of the vehicles ran over two neighbors, killing Rafael Flores Echevarría and leaving Luis handicapped. In addition, the police arrested between 200 and 300 demonstrators. A few days …
Faced with the violence that broke out in the department of Ucayali, the Catholic Church, through the Vicariate of Pucallpa, established in 1988 the Vicariate's Human Rights Office based in Pucallpa. This Office had two priority areas of attention: the area of complaints of human rights violations, with legal advice …
During 1985 and 1986 there was a period of significant decline in the intensity of the internal armed conflict in Peru. This period represented the lowest point in terms of the number of fatalities, with 1986 being the year with the lowest number of reported deaths and disappearances. This decrease …
On May 14, 1983 the corpse of Severino Huáscar Morales was exhumed from the Uchuraccay cemetery. The body was found in the corner of the north side of the cemetery, where several stones were piled up on top. The corpse was covered with a white balleta habit and presented perforations …
The internal armed conflict in Peru began in 1980 with the actions of the Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso. During the two decades of politically motivated violence, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded that the most likely number of fatalities exceeded 69,000 Peruvians killed or disappeared at the hands of …
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Barrios Altos and La Cantuta are the cases that could put former President Fujimori behind bars. Most Peruvians know fragments of what happened — broken accounts, painful images — but …
Informational brochure published by the General Directorate for the Search of Disappeared Persons of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Peru, explaining what the work of the National …
The Government of Peru announced that it will comply with the judicial ruling that today annulled the humanitarian pardon granted to former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) and ordered his arrest …
The number of persons who disappeared during the internal armed conflict experienced between 1980 and 2000 rose to 20,329, according to the first official list of victims released by the …
The Internal Armed Conflict in Peru left more than 69,000 people killed and disappeared, both by subversive groups and by the Armed Forces. The CVR's final report recorded the identity …
International human rights organizations and Peruvian civil society organizations issue a statement regarding the decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte IDH) determining that the pardon granted to …
Following the release of the resolution by the Supreme Preparatory Investigation Court declaring the humanitarian pardon to former president Alberto Fujimori inapplicable, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights assured …
Document that provides a normative and jurisprudential assessment of the pardon and right of grace granted to Alberto Fujimori in December 2018. Among its main conclusions, it identifies the insufficient …
Human Rights organizations and relatives of victims of the internal conflict commemorated today, August 28, the 15th Anniversary of the delivery of the CVR report, paying a heartfelt tribute to …
The Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH) welcomes the scope of Ombudsman's Report No. 177 on the "Pardon and right of grace granted to former president Alberto Fujimori" and highlights …
The climate of outrage over the pardon granted on Christmas Eve by Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to former president (1990-2000) Alberto Fujimori was reflected in four manifestos signed by …
Yesterday, Panel A of the National Criminal Court found 10 of the 12 terrorists (the reading of Moïsés Límaco's sentence was suspended because he is outside the country, while Elizabeth …
On June 21, 2016, Law 30470, the Law on the Search for Disappeared Persons during the Period of Violence 1980–2000, was enacted, marking a paradigm shift in state intervention by …
Alberto Fujimori and his former ministers Marino Costa Bauer, Alejandro Aguinaga, and Eduardo Yong Motta are charged before the Primer Juzgado Penal Nacional as indirect perpetrators of the alleged commission …
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) urged the Peruvian State today to revoke the humanitarian pardon and the right of grace granted to convicted former president Alberto Fujimori. According …
Three months before the pardon of Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski received the former president's son. He did so shortly after announcing another cabinet, forced at that time …
Peruvian justice today put an end to the freedom that octogenarian former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori had enjoyed since the past Christmas, by annulling the controversial pardon that had been …
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) today (October 5, 2018) welcomed the annulment of the pardon granted to former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), who was sentenced to 25 …
Peru's Supreme Court annulled this Wednesday the pardon granted to former Peruvian president (1990-2000) and ordered his return to prison. Former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) had granted him this …
The Fujimori case took another twist with the annulment of the pardon. This once again exposed the bitter rivalry between Keiko and Kenji. This entire saga could well inspire a …
Full text of the resolution annulling the pardon granted to Alberto Fujimori Fujimori. Published on October 3, 2018.
A setback for the pardon of former president Alberto Fujimori, granted by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. The Judiciary annulled this morning the humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori and ordered his immediate …
The judicial annulment of the pardon granted to former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) restores justice and prevents impunity for the crimes committed by the former president, said three special …
The Ombudsman's Office warned that former president Alberto Fujimori is barred from participating in public events or political affairs, since doing so would demonstrate that his health condition does not …
The pardon of Alberto Fujimori should never have been granted because it did not comply with internal procedures and violates the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte …
The Preparatory Investigation Court of the Supreme Court, presided over by judge Hugo Núñez Julca, granted the request by the civil party not to apply the humanitarian pardon in favor …
President of the Republic Martín Vizcarra stated that the decision of the Judiciary declaring the humanitarian pardon granted to former president Alberto Fujimori Fujimori inadmissible must be respected. He recalled …
The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Peru presented the first base list of the National Registry of Disappeared Persons and Burial Sites (RENADE), compiled by the General Directorate …
Alberto Fujimori will return to prison. Peru's Supreme Court annulled this Wednesday the pardon granted to the 80-year-old autocrat, who had received the grace on Christmas night last year from …
The Justice sector identified, by name, more than 20,000 persons who disappeared between 1980 and 2000. The registry will be publicly accessible and will serve to continue the search for …
Full text of Legislative Decree 1398, enacted on September 8, 2018. The purpose of this regulation is to create the Genetic Data Bank to contribute to the identification of persons …
The Executive Branch officially formalized today the creation of the Genetic Data Bank for the search and identification of disappeared persons in Peru during the period of violence from 1980 …
Family members of the victims in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases, along with their legal defense team comprising APRODEH, COMISEDH, FEDEPAZ, and IDL — organizations that make up …
Framework document containing the guidelines for the process of searching for disappeared persons, known as the "National Plan for the Search for Disappeared Persons" (PNBPD), which falls within the public …
The former president accused of human rights crimes was released from prison thanks to the political use made of the Odebrecht scandal. Peru is not the only country in which …
Peru's president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK), pardoned former president Alberto Fujimori on Christmas Eve. This decision triggered a wave of marches across the South American country in rejection of the …
The pardon granted by Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to former president Alberto Fujimori on Christmas began to have its first consequences, in the form of resignations by officials and …
More than 230 Peruvian writers, including 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, signed a letter of protest against the "illegal and irresponsible conduct" of Peruvian president Pedro …
Research measuring how the Repared scholarship program has been functioning — a program that covers higher, technical, and university education studies at public and private institutions in Peru for victims …
Peru will have a genetic database to help in the search for persons who disappeared during the internal conflict that affected the country between 1980 and 2000 — a figure …
The Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH) expresses its greatest satisfaction at the ruling issued by judge Hugo Rodolfo Velásquez Zavaleta, presiding judge of the Fifth Specialized Constitutional Court of …
The Minister of Justice, Marisol Pérez Tello, participated in the ceremony for the handover of 58 bodies of victims from the period of terrorism to their families in Huamanga (department …
Text that presents and summarizes the research. "The elaboration of the book La violencia política en el Perú 1980-2000. Sendero Luminoso contra el Estado y la sociedad (Paris, L'Harmattan, May …
Elizabeth Malpica has not forgotten March 27, 1990. That night fifteen members of her family were murdered by the anti-subversive rondas of Satipo. The trial against nine ronderos and a …
The "dirty war" in Argentina is one of the open wounds of its contemporary history. The Madres de Plaza de Mayo keep alive the memory of thousands of disappeared people …
The IDEHPUCP prepared an amicus curiae that was submitted in the popular action proceedings against Supreme Decree No. 051-2011-PCM. This regulation established, through its article 1, the closure of the …
Legal opinion on the domestic criminal characterization of acts of surgical sterilization performed by personnel of the Ministerio de Salud during the 1990s on Peruvian women without their valid consent, …
Report on the configuration of a necessary theoretical framework to assess the criminal responsibility of members of the Ejército peruano for acts of sexual violence attributed to them by women …