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.
Public hearing organized by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission focused on documenting and making visible the political violence and crimes committed specifically against women during the internal armed conflict. During this hearing, testimonies of women victims of sexual violence, arbitrary detentions, torture and other abuses were presented. The testimonies collected …
The Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, known as the Convention of Belem do Para, was approved by the Peruvian State through Legislative Resolution 26583 dated March 22, 1996. This convention was published in the Official Gazette El Peruano on March 25, 1996. The …
A Shining Path column entered the hacienda where the affiant worked, capturing her entire family. Later they stole their belongings and took them to an abandoned house, where they raped the affiant in the presence of her husband and children. The case is evidence of sexual violence as a form …
The witness's sister was sexually assaulted by two subversives in 1989. When the first one finished, the other abused her in the same way. Then they left her and fed her some cookies, threatening to disappear her if she told her family. The victim began to bleed, did not scream …
Two hikers entered the declarant's house, took her to the side of a road and raped her. The incident occurred in the context of armed incursions by PCP-SL in the area.
Mrs. Muñoz de Yangali was detained in her home by soldiers in civilian clothes. She was tortured at the Castro Pampa military base, where she was hung from a beam with her hands tied behind her back and given electric shocks. Her interrogators accused her of collaborating with Sendero Luminoso …
An armed group dressed in civilian clothes broke into the Iguaín hacienda. The men entered the house and took out two girls. First they raped them and then shot them to death. The bodies of the victims were found with obvious signs of rape and execution.
The declarant narrates that when she was gathering firewood she was chased by a subversive who subsequently raped her. The subversive told her: 'if you are not going to accept me, I am going to kill you'. The victim screamed for help but no one came to her aid.
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