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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Photos & Videos 50
Interview with Cesáreo Calderón - Father of John Calderón Ríos (Pativilca Case)
Ada Ochoa Solano - Widow of Felandro Castillo Manrique - Pativilca Case (Caraqueño)
Interview with Tania Pariona - Pativilca Case Hearing
Interview with Maria Luisa Tello - Granddaughter of Santiago Tello (Cayara Case)
Ideeleradio interview with Dr. Gloria Cano
Interview with Marks Willem
Operation Victoria - Documentary
Place of memory, tolerance and social inclusion
Terrorism in Peru - Part II
Terrorism in Peru - Part I
Abimael and the birth of Shining Path
ANFASEP Memory "So that it is not repeated"
Dr. Gloria Cano - Aprodeh Lawyer - On the verdict in the "Cabitos" case
Island - Documentary
2014
ENCROACHMENTS ON LA HOYADA
2014
LA HOYADA, 2014
Testimony of Juana Bustos Huamaní
Testimony of Ramiro Niño de Guzmán
Testimony of Toribia Casa Carrasco
Testimony of Igidia Arullca Oscco
Testimony of Eugenia Altamirano Huamán
Testimony of Cirila Súñiga Quispe
Testimony of Faustina Huamán Junco
Testimony of Agripina Pedraza Martínez
Testimony of Evaristo Contreras Huamán
Testimony of Gladis Felicitas Tello Merino
Testimony of Cecilia Barrios Alarcón
Testimony of Eugenia Quispe Sánchez
Testimony of Simeón Alarcón Santi
Testimony of Víctor Sánchez Marca
Testimony of Yasmina Fuentes Tello
Achka Illaki kallpanchawaraku (So much pain gave us strength and courage) - Documentary
Jaynapuncha Pajarin (Yesterday and tomorrow)
Lirio Qasa - Song
2012
RETABLO. WOMAN IN THE CEMETERY
2012
RETABLO. THE CONDEMNED
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 1 OF THE CONDEMNED
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 2 OF THE CONDEMNED
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 3 OF THE CONDEMNED
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 1. DREAM OF THE HUAMANGUINA WOMAN
2012
RETABLO. THE HUAMANGUINO
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL OF THE HUAMANGUINO
2012
RETABLO. DREAM OF THE HUAMANGUINA WOMAN DURING EIGHT YEARS OF VIOLENCE
2012
RETABLO. WAILLAKIS PURMACKAN
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 2. WAILLAKIS PURMACKAN
2012
RETABLO. PICAFLORCITO
2012
RETABLO. ENOUGH TORTURE
2012
RETABLO. DEATH IN YERBABUENA
2012
RETABLO. DETAIL 1 OF DEATH IN YERBABUENA
Documents 50
Human Rights Organizations Commemorated the 15th Anniversary of the Delivery of the CVR Report
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 …
Victims' Organizations and Justice Policies. Building a Humanitarian Approach to the Search for Disappeared Persons.
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 …
National Plan for the Search for Disappeared Persons (1980–2000)
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 …
Government Officially Creates the Genetic Data Bank
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 …
Authorities Present Official List of More Than 20,300 Persons Disappeared During the Armed Violence
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 …
Number of Disappeared in the Internal Conflict Rises to More Than 20,000
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 …
More Than 19,000 Peruvians Remain Missing
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 …
Fujimori and Former Ministers Criminally Charged in the Forced Sterilizations Case
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 …
Legislative Decree 1398, Creating the Genetic Data Bank for the Search for Disappeared Persons in Peru
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 …
Base List of the National Registry of Disappeared Persons and Burial Sites
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 …
Post-Conflict Legacies: The Search for Disappeared Persons in Peru as Public Policy
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 …
Peru Creates Genetic Data Bank for the Search for the Disappeared
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 …
Political Violence in Peru 1980–2000. Shining Path Against the State and Society. An Essay in the Anthropology of Violence
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 …
Because the Search Still Continues: Notes on the Recent Passage of the Law on Disappeared Persons
The decision made in Congress — exempted from a preliminary committee report in the Justice and Human Rights Commission by agreement of the Junta de Portavoces — to approve the …
An Analytical Summary of the Book Political Violence in Peru 1980–2000. Shining Path Against the State and Society. An Essay in the Political Anthropology of Violence
Essay summarizing the contributions of the book "La violencia política en el Perú 1980-2000. Sendero Luminoso contra el Estado y la sociedad" [Political Violence in Peru 1980-2000. Sendero Luminoso against …
Legal Report on the Forced Sterilizations Case
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, …
Does Stigma Generate Depoliticization? Participation, Stigmatization from Political Violence and Rejection of Shining Path at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
During the period of political violence that Peru experienced at the end of the 20th century, the repression of activism at several public universities was accompanied by a strong stigmatization …
LA HOYADA SANCTUARY OF MEMORY
Background and justification of La Hoyada as a "Sanctuary in Memory of the Victims of Violence"
Los Cabitos Barracks: A Place of Horror and Death
The path traveled by the victims, their families, and APRODEH is the book written by Gloria Cano, executive director of the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH). It narrates the situation …
Regional Political Analysis Magazine – Retablo No. 56
CONTENTS: Real politics in an electoral year / Women are the ones who will save Peruvian politics / VRAEM: The ghost of eradication / Discrimination, racism and violence among adolescents …
Between Stigma and Silence. Memory of Violence Among Students of UNMSM and UNSCH
The present research — Entre el estigma y el silencio: memoria de la violencia entre estudiantes de la UNMSM y la UNSCH — deals precisely with one of the institutions …
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 …
Class, Gender and Peacebuilding in Peru (1961–2014). Colloquium
This colloquium is presented as an opportunity to discover and make visible histories that remained hidden, with the aim of questioning the way in which the past and present of …
Reparation for Victims of the Armed Conflict in Peru: The Voice of the Victims
The Instituto de Defensa Legal, through its Governance and Rights Area, publishes this study on the perceptions of victims of political violence regarding the reparations process, in the communities of …
Twice Dead: The Story of the Image and Life of Celestino Ccente or Edmundo Camana
Drawing on a photographic image exhibited in 2003 in the context of the presentation of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (August 2003), which became iconic of …
El Ojo que Llora: Biopolitics, Memory Knots, and Public Art in Peru Today
The article analyzes debates surrounding the construction and materialization of collective memory in Peru in relation to the internal war in which Sendero Luminoso was confronted by state forces, leaving …
Family and Intergenerational Transmission of Memories of the Internal Armed Conflict in Ayacucho
The work presented below is the product of a joint effort by the Grupo Memoria at the IEP, with students from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional …
28 YEARS AFTER THE SORAS MASSACRE
THE GREATEST SENDERO MASSACRE 1-Facts of the Soras massacre. 117 peasants murdered and massacred in a single day. 2-Context in which the massacre occurred. 3-True terrorist actions of Sendero Luminoso. …
Memories of Reconciliation: Photography and Memory in Post-War Peru
This article takes the Peruvian exhibition Yuyanapaq by the Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) as a starting point for reflecting on the place of photographs in projects whose aim …
El Ojo que Llora: Biopolitics, Memory Knots, and Public Art in Peru Today
This article analyzes the debates surrounding the construction and materialization of collective memory in Peru in relation to the internal war in which Sendero Luminoso was confronted by state forces, …
Anamnesis. Ghostly Returns of Violence
This book collects and expands upon the images and meanings of the exhibition "Anamnesia: phantasmatic returns of violence" held by Micromuseo during November and December 2012 in the Art Hall …
THE PCP-SHINING PATH CHAPTER IN THE NARRATIVE OF MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
This article addresses four narrative texts by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa related to the violence experienced in Peru in the context of the war between Shining Path and the …
How Much Has Been Repaired in Our Communities? Progress, Perceptions, and Recommendations on Collective Reparations in Peru (2007-2011)
This report covers four years (2007–2011) of implementation of the Collective Reparations Program (PRC) as part of the Comprehensive Reparations Plan (PIR) for victims of Peru's internal armed conflict, which …
Violence and Memory in the Work of Carlos Iván Degregori
To reflect on the contributions of Carlos Iván Degregori to memory studies, I review his bibliography. I find that from the emergence of Sendero Luminoso in the early 1980s, his …
State of the Art. The Conflict in Peru
This document presents different angles of the conflict by offering several studies that analyze not only the actors who participated in the conflict but also the periods preceding it, in …
The Sites of Memory. Social Processes of Commemoration in Peru
This publication presents the results of research on local experiences of memory of violence, carried out by the Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del …
Situation of Women Who Have Received Collective Reparation. Third Collective Reparations Monitoring Report
Once again, the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos – APRODEH, in alliance with the International Center for Transitional Justice – ICTJ, is pleased to present the results of the monitoring study …
How to Quantify Pain? Contributions for Individual Economic Reparations for Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict
A publication containing the reflections, experiences, and recommendations of a group of experts who have systematized knowledge about economic reparation processes carried out in Latin America and the various aspects …
Between Two Fires: Dictatorship and Subversion in Peru, 1980–2000
Based on the publication by Jo-Marie Burt, Violence and Authoritarianism in Peru: Under the Shadow of Sendero and the Fujimori Dictatorship (see in the BVGA), the author considers that the …
Tribute Paid to Journalist Jaime Ayala on the 25th Anniversary of His Disappearance
In the presence of family members, friends, colleagues, authorities from the Province of Huanta, human rights organizations, and the press, a series of activities were held in memory of the …
Political Violence. A Criminological Analysis. Project Utopias of Control and Control of Utopias
Political violence can take two forms: that of authorized or legal force, exercised by authority as an instrument for the preservation or establishment of new systems and new powers, and …
Why Do We Ayacuchans Remain Fragmented? - Opinion Column
For a long time we have been saying that in Ayacucho it is not possible to achieve the unity that would make it strong as a region and consolidate it …
The Children of Ayacucho. An Anthropology of Adoption and Family Building in Peru
This valuable ethnographic study analyzes those informal arrangements by which Andean children are sent by their parents to live in new households. At first glance, the "circulation" of children may …
Peru Fears 'Colombianization'
Sendero Luminoso's transformation into a 'narco-guerrilla' forces the Government to revise its defense strategy — 'narcos' have killed 50 soldiers in one year. The great terror that Sendero Luminoso now …
Argumentos. Social Analysis Journal of the Institute of Peruvian Studies. Year 3, No. 4
In this issue: Spaces of memory. Battles for memory, Carlos Iván Degregori p.3 / A new Sendero Luminoso wave? The San José de Santillana attack in the context of the …
Yahweh, Yahweh... Were We Not the People You Chose? - Opinion Column
It seems God was not as good as they wanted to present Him to us. Or perhaps, in a moment of weariness, He chose the wrong people? We will never …
Editorial. Solidarity with Salomón Lerner Febres
What would happen in Argentina if the Madres de Mayo were threatened with death for insisting that those who killed their children be convicted? What would happen in Chile if …