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 1996, the Peruvian legislature was reshuffled in favor of the ruling party, which led to the approval of Law No. 26657, known as the Authentic Interpretation Law, which paved the way for the reelection of President Alberto Fujimori. That same year, the Ad Hoc Commission was created to review …
At an Extraordinary Assembly of FEPOMUVES, Pilar Anchita was removed from her position as president after refusing to sign a document dissociating herself from the PCP-SL. Donatilda Gamarra was elected as the new president. This event occurred in a context of political tension and violence, with the PCP-SL in retreat …
An MRTA commando killed Andres Sosa, former leader of Patria Libre, as he was about to get into a public vehicle in Villa El Salvador. The attack was perpetrated by members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement as part of their violent actions during that period. Sosa was a former …
In 1991, a confrontation took place at Mantaro Port between the Peruvian Army and the Shining Path insurgent group. During this confrontation, members of the army were attacked and killed by the Shining Path, who waited on the hill to ambush the military forces. This event is part of a …
Between 1990 and 1992, the MRTA lost support from the local population due to the abuse of the quotas they used to extort money from the few remaining businessmen in the region and, in general, to the criminal practices that many of their hastily recruited militia members had engaged in. …
On December 13, 1989, PCP-SL militants entered the community of San Mateo in the district of Churcampa. The subversives murdered three people: Paulina Gamboa Arrieta, Teodoro Gamboa Ore and Moises Arroyo Barrientos. The murders were carried out in front of the assembled population, as part of the PCP-SL's terror strategy …
In February 1989, a group of more than 300 members of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) arrived in the village of Canayre, Llochegua, in boats from the Ene River. The Shining Path members killed 37 villagers, including the vigilante ronderos, and then demanded a list of …
In 1989, in the community of Allarpo, a group of 50 hikers conducted a raid. During this raid, they accused the husband of a declarant of not complying with the tasks given to him by the group. He was brutally beaten and tortured, and finally killed by the Shining Path …
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Yuyarisun is an archive of testimonies from community members of Ayacucho and Huancavelica, Peru, that document the political violence of Peru's last two decades. The archive is organized into four …
This publication is the second in a series whose other components are the Rapporteurship Reports 'Forced Disappearance—State Commitments' (January 2017) and 'Forensic, Humanitarian, and Judicial Challenges in the Recovery and …
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 …
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 …
Interim findings of a political anthropology study on the internal war in Peru (1980–2000). Introduction. I. Some general hypotheses about violence in Peru. II. The Peruvian civil war in the …
The period of political violence and the fight against terrorism left very deep wounds in Peruvian society. The violence affected everyone, including the actors of the justice system, who were …
A decade after the publication of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación on the internal armed conflict from 1980 to 2000, Amnesty International acknowledges and …
This article describes the social and musical experience of migrants from the Ayacucho town of Hualla during their displacement and integration into Lima. The first phase of migration to the …
Ten years after the presentation of the Truth Commission's Report, I believe this is the moment to propose a different look at the testimonies — a perspective from which it …
This book undertakes the analysis of a selection of poems by six Peruvian authors written in Peru between 1980 and 1992. My reading centers on the premise that there is …
CHAPTER I METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK CHAPTER III HYPOTHESES, VARIABLES AND INDICATORS AND THEIR OPERATIONALIZATION CHAPTER IV DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESEARCH HYPOTHESES, VARIABLES AND INDICATORS CHAPTER V TESTING …
Comics as a mediator of stories. It is undoubtedly disturbing to speak of genocides and massacres while maintaining the historian's distance. We invite the reader to do so, blow by …
Boys and girls fill the playground when they return from school. They know very little about the hardships of the past experienced in their neighborhood during the time of Sendero. …
With the public emergence of the Movimiento por Amnistía y Derechos Fundamentales (Movadef), the country saw memory related to the years of political violence "bloom." All manner of figures and …
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 …
"La palabra de los muertos o Ayacucho hora nona" is one of the most significant poetry collections of what has come to be called the period of violence for some, …
"From Victims to Citizens. Memories of political violence in communities of the Pampas river basin" is proof that memory must no longer be understood only as the recollection of pain …
The number of those disappeared due to the terrorism that ravaged Peru between 1980 and 2000 is close to 16,000 — double the figure calculated by the Comisión de la …
A version of the insurrectional experience of the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) not as an added part of the violence deployed by SL, the Army, and the civilian population, …
A document on the current state of anthropological-forensic investigations in Peru, with a brief introduction to forensic issues for members of the public interested in human rights topics, and a …
The mission of the Lugar de la Memoria is to serve as the reference site for all citizens regarding the period of violence that we experienced between 1980 and 2000. …
The stories presented below speak to the power of memory and the importance that community memory holds for a transitional justice process. They challenge us to understand that transitional justice …
The political violence that the country endured during the 1980s and 1990s struck the Peruvian labor world deeply. However, before the outbreak of the internal conflict, violence was a constant …
The Collective Reparations Program (PRC) has been implemented since June 2007 as part of the Comprehensive Reparations Plan (PIR), contained within the Recommendations of the Comisión de la Verdad y …
Families of victims of political violence demand justice and promised reparation. The families of victims of political violence in Ayacucho went to the area where the common graves were found …
They assert that ten thousand soles cannot be the worth of a human life. We have the same rights as those who received 30,000, 35,000, and even 20 million soles …
This thesis is a qualitative study that aims to address the response mechanisms developed by women in the Ayacucho region in response to the various problems generated by political violence, …
After 19 years and three months, family members identify victims of political violence. According to the findings of the forensic team, the nine disappeared were bound and shot dead by …
Political violence is one of the central concerns of twenty-first-century Peruvian narrative. The novelistic fiction approaches individual and community identity representations through memories. The first accounts of the war come …
The last twenty years of the twentieth century constituted one of the most tragic episodes in Peru's history. The armed struggle unleashed by the Partido Comunista del Perú-Sendero Luminoso and …
This article describes the various cultural forms of experiencing suffering following political violence in Peru. Since it is usually assumed that we all feel pain in the same way, no …
Reparations Monitoring System. Situation of women who have received collective reparations. Once again, the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos – APRODEH, in alliance with the International Center for Transitional Justice – …
Organizations of relatives and those affected by political violence in Ayacucho, the southern Andean region that was the epicenter of the fight against the insurgency between 1980 and 2000 in …
This thesis focuses on the Peruvian prison system, especially the maximum-security prison Miguel Castro Castro and various Lima jails, such as Lurigancho and Santa Mónica, where the cell blocks dominated …
This report focuses on examining the progress of the second phase of the PRC, given that it is the component of the Comprehensive Reparations Plan that reports the most progress …
This descriptive, non-experimental study seeks to describe the psychosocial effects of political violence in three districts of the department of Huancavelica with differing levels of impact. To this end, 149 …
Since the beginning of its operations, the Defensoría del Pueblo has included among its priority issues the protection and promotion of the right to identity, given that lack of documentation …
This article describes the path to consciousness of which Peruvian women were protagonists during the era of political violence. Spontaneous organizations, formed in the context of forced migration caused by …
The book reviewed below brings together a set of eight essays on literary works in which the representation of political violence has been central. Added to these is a final …
Victims in the photographs of violence from the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación del Perú. This work is part of the project for my Master's thesis in Communication and …
This article is an outline of the path toward the consciousness of Peruvian women during the era of political violence. Spontaneous organizations formed in the context of forced migration were …
The historical background and synopsis of the Fujimori mega-trial are described, and in accordance with psychodynamics, the convergence of narcissistic perversion and paranoid imbalance in the commission of the crimes …
This document is the result of the Pilot Project Reparations Monitoring System, which the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos - APRODEH is implementing in partnership with the International Center for Transitional …
Presents graphic material that forms part of the research archive underlying the book Censura: violencia política y bibliotecas en el Perú. The images are situated in the period of political …
In the case of the department of Junín, the Monitoring System found it appropriate to differentiate between the highland and jungle geographic zones, due to the particular characteristics of each. …
This document constitutes Departmental Report 1 of the Reparations Monitoring System, a project being carried out by the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos – APRODEH, in partnership with the International Center …
This document constitutes Departmental Report 1 of the Reparations Monitoring System, a project being carried out by the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos – APRODEH, in partnership with the International Center …
