87 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
On August 14, 1985, 69 peasants from the Ayacuchan district of Accomarca were extrajudicially executed in the area known as LLoccllapampa by military personnel belonging to the Political-Military Command of …
This June marks 30 years since the massacre of prisoners at El Frontón accused of being terrorists, and the case has been opened, shelved, and reopened without ever reaching a …
The Penales Genocide is remembered, which took place between June 18th and 19th, 1986. Those responsible for this horrendous act, which left around 300 dead in its wake, always argued …
President Ollanta Humala raised a hot-button issue during the pre-runoff debates of 2011 aimed at candidate Keiko Fujimori: I refer to the case of forced sterilizations. During the debate, Fujimori …
On one hand we have a TC that orders no new criminal proceedings to be opened in this case, and on the other hand we have a Fiscalía that, having …
At the end of Alan García's government the author takes stock of the reparations process. 1. A complex design for a new issue 2. The Registro Único de Víctimas (RUV) …
The Reparations Program that is to be put into effect has a series of shortcomings that constitute yet another grievance against a segment of the population that has historically been …
In this official letter the Consejo de Reparaciones protests to the Prime Minister against this decree for the following reasons: 1. The repeated failure to include representatives of victims in …
The massacres of Pomatambo and Parcco during Alán García's time are still unpunished. This is the translation of the secret cable sent by the US Embassy to the State Department …
In December 1990, through their contacts with the police and the armed forces (FF AA), expert Political Officers from the US Embassy in Lima personally interrogated a police sergeant who …
In his regular column, César Hildebrandt raises a pertinent question, especially now that the first stone of the Lugar de la Memoria has been laid: Why is Fujimori in prison …
Decrees benefit Fujimori and García Pérez himself. In an unprecedented publication, within the framework of the delegation of powers ordered by Congress, the President of the Republic, Dr. Alan Gabriel …
On Wednesday, September 1st, the Government issued Legislative Decrees 1094, 1095, 1096, and 1097, under the framework of Law 29548, published on July 3rd of the current year, through which …
Faced with harsh and widespread criticism that crossed borders, Peru's parliament, at the initiative of the government itself, repealed the legislative decree that enabled the statute of limitations and dismissal …
The Presidency of the Republic requests the President of the Congress of the Republic to approve on an URGENT basis the law that repeals Legislative Decree 1097.
On the issue of human rights, President García had things clear from the start of his term. The objective was to prevent investigations into past crimes from advancing and, consequently, …
Legislative Decree 1097, drafted by the Ministry of Defense and signed by President Alan García, has been characterized by numerous analysts as a covert amnesty for those who perpetrated serious …
Human Rights. They wanted to put her on trial for reporting President García for genocide. The ruling must be reviewed and approved by the Supreme Court of Justice. The instructional …
The human rights, enforced disappearances, and exhumations prosecutor of Ayacucho, Cristina Pilar Olazábal Ochoa, was reported for alleged malfeasance after accusing President Alan García as indirect perpetrator of the massacre …
Giampietri and Mantilla led the massacre. Much has been said about the El Frontón massacre, and for some time now it has been politicized to such an extreme that almost …
The two main Peruvian rebel groups, both leftist, are the Maoist group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and the Cuban-inspired Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru). Both organizations operated …
The genocides perpetrated in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s were not accidental or the acts of a few wayward elements of the armed forces and police, as the governments …
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Information on Alan García's government's rejection of Germany's generous offer.
The Ombudsman's Office provides details of the German government's offer for the creation of a museum of memory and reiterates the appropriateness of this museum for helping to bring about …
Faced with widespread protest, Alan García reverses his refusal regarding a Museum of Memory and appoints an ad honorem commission to take charge of the project. Vargas Llosa will chair …
Several intellectuals decided to make public their protest against the decision of Alan García's government to reject the German government's offer to build a Museum of Memory. This document concludes …
The 11 legislative decrees approved on July 22, 2007 by the government of Alan García are part of a process of criminalizing social protest, which has as precedents the legislative …
Former member of the covert military group Colina, Jesús Sosa Saavedra, stated today that the special units involved in the dirty war in Peru began during the first government of …
On July 22, 2007, the government of Alan García published 11 Legislative Decrees, announced as an effective mechanism to combat organized crime. In reality, an examination of these rules reflects …
Fear has returned to hundreds of Peruvians who suffered imprisonment on false accusations of belonging to the Maoist organization Sendero Luminoso or the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) during the …
President Alan García testified this Friday about the killing of more than 100 alleged terrorists during a prison riot on a penal island in 1986, becoming the first sitting Peruvian …
The Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (Aprodeh) has prepared a preliminary report on all extrajudicial executions, massacres in peasant communities, arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture, and terrorist attacks — both by …
Santillana came close to being wiped off the map by guerrilla attacks and repression by the army and paramilitary self-defense groups. Those who survived fear that the State will exclude …
In the early hours of June 18, 1986, Sendero Luminoso inmates initiated a riot in the Blue Pavilion of the El Frontón penal island, in Callao. Simultaneously, riots took place …
Gloria Cano, legal representative of APRODEH, confirmed the filing of a complaint by prosecutor Cristina Olazábal against Alan García Pérez and other senior military commanders for the murder and genocide …
Thesis submitted for the degree of Master in International Cooperation. It analyzes the human rights situation in Peru and the rule-of-law crisis arising from the internal conflict between 1980 and …
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) …
The political parties and movements that governed the country between 1980 and 2000 are today reluctant to accept their responsibilities in the development of the internal conflict that devastated the …
Former President Alan García Pérez (1985–1990) was found criminally responsible for the killing of approximately 270 rioting prisoners in three Lima prisons in 1986, revealed Julio Quintanilla, defender of the …
The Partido Aprista Peruano acknowledges the important and far-reaching work carried out by the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR). Its report deserves thorough analysis by society and in …
- Extrajudicial executions in peasant communities. - Massacres in peasant communities. - Enforced disappearances. - Arbitrary detentions and political prisoners. - Torture. - Judicial proceedings for violations committed in earlier …
The following 41 documents represent the most revealing and substantive declassified documents on human rights in Peru that the National Security Archive has already obtained through the Freedom of Information …
The following forty-one documents represent the most revealing and substantive declassified documents on human rights in Peru that the National Security Archive has already obtained through the Freedom of Information …
The other truth about political violence in Peru. Truth and justice are inseparable concepts in any process of building the moral conscience of a nation. A partial truth is barely …
Gustavo Espinoza was one of the opposition members of parliament who, during the government of Alan García, served on a parliamentary commission that investigated the Rodrigo Franco command. At the …
Miguel Aurelio Exebio Reyes contacted agenciaperu.com and said that he had belonged to the Rodrigo Franco command. He agreed to have his testimony recorded and revealed a series of names, …
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