Speech by Salomón Lerner Febres upon presenting the Proyecto Santuario de La Memoria (Memory Sanctuary Project) on the occasion of the handover of the land known as "La Hoyada," for …
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20 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
Salomón Lerner Febres, executive president of the Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (IDEHPUCP) and former president of the Comisión de la Verdad …
Through an official letter addressed to the President of the Council of Ministers, the Ombudsman requests that he order the corresponding measures to make the construction of the Santuario de …
In the early hours of July 3, 1983, a group of thirty soldiers broke into the home of Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza and took away her son Arquímedes, then 16 …
In our country there is a discrepancy between our perception of the needs of the relatives of disappeared persons and the actions we have proposed on their behalf. It is …
Ten years after the CVR presented its final report, it is a good moment to review what happened with its 85 recommendations (53 on institutional reforms and 32 related to …
Thousands have been walking for decades in search of relatives who disappeared during the years of violence. On the outskirts of Ayacucho, the fuel tank used by the Army for …
For the second time in the ongoing oral trial of the Los Cabitos case (1983), the Sala Penal Nacional collected witness testimony in the city of Huamanga between August 21 …
Below we present a chronicle of the first two days of testimony from witnesses and aggrieved parties in the Caso Cabitos 1983.
After a series of threats to invade the sector known as "La Hoyada," a training ground of the Peruvian Army, Cuartel Los Cabitos BIM 51 in Ayacucho, which had been …
We regret that, rather than convening us to discuss and approve reparations proposals within the body responsible for reparations guidelines and policies — namely the CMAN — the decision must …
The Asociación de Familiares de Secuestrados, Detenidos y Desaparecidos del Perú presents its action plan for the next four years. There are four areas of work: 1- Organizational strengthening 2- …
In Ayacucho, a city of about 150,000 inhabitants that lived through the harsh blows of violence during the 20 years of internal armed conflict, a large part of the population …
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 …
During the years 1983 and 1985, Ayacucho became the main arena of violence. The bloody terrorist actions of Sendero Luminoso were met with fierce repression by the Armed Forces. In …
One of the main objectives of the project is the organizational strengthening of ANFASEP, an association of people affected by the political violence that occurred between 1980 and 2000. It …
To the titular question that we posed to several guests, the responses, in our opinion, agree that one cannot categorically assert that there is no progress at all — there …
There are nearly 7,000 complaints of forced disappearance. The Defensoría del Pueblo has just published a very important investigation into the phenomenon of forced disappearance in Peru between 1983 and …
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Timeline Events 6
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Arrest and disappearance of Guadalupe Ccallocunto
On June 10, 1990, the day of the second round of the general elections, 15 heavily armed hooded men in military fatigues entered Guadalupe Ccallocunto's home. Guadalupe had organized the National Association of Relatives of the Disappeared, Kidnapped and Detained of Peru (ANFASEP) to find the whereabouts of her husband …
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Constitution of ANFASEP
In 1985, the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared formed in 1983 took the name of National Association of Relatives of the Kidnapped-Detainees-Disappeared in Areas under State of Emergency (ANFASEP). This organization was dedicated to the search for disappeared relatives, developing action strategies such as marches, public denunciations, meetings with …
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Formation of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared
In September 1983, several women, among them Angelica Mendoza de Ascarza, Teodosia Layme Cuya, Antonia Zaga Huaña and others, joined together and formed the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared. This group later, in 1985, took the name of Asociación Nacional de Familiares de Secuestrados-Detenidos-Desaparecidos en zonas bajo Estado de …
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Formation of ANFASEP
In September 1983, several women, including Angelica Mendoza de Ascarza, Teodosia Layme Cuya, and Antonia Zaga Huaña, formed the Comité de Familiares de Desaparecidos. This group later became known as the Asociación Nacional de Familiares de Secuestrados-Detenidos-Desaparecidos (ANFASEP) in 1985. ANFASEP's main goal was to locate their missing relatives and …
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Creation of ANFASEP (National Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Emergency Zones).
In 1983, some twenty women relatives of the disappeared, including sons, husbands, fathers and brothers, decided to create the National Association of Relatives of the Detained, Disappeared in Emergency Zones (ANFASEP) based in Ayacucho. This organization emerged as a response to the forced disappearances that occurred in the context of …
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Creation of the Asociación Nacional de Familiares Detenidos, Desaparecidos en Zonas de Emergencia (ANFASEP)
In 1983, a group of women in Ayacucho, Peru, formed the Asociación Nacional de Familiares Detenidos, Desaparecidos en Zonas de Emergencia (ANFASEP) to address the disappearances of their family members during the period of violence in the country. The organization was initially composed solely of women to protect men, who …
Photos & Videos 18
ANFASEP Memory "So that it is not repeated"
2016
ENCROACHERS ON THE LA HOYADA SANCTUARY
2016
PROTEST AGAINST THE ENCROACHERS ON LA HOYADA
2016
THE LA HOYADA SANCTUARY
2016
PROTECTION OF LA HOYADA
Memory Sanctuary. Project.
"Walkers of Memory". Documentary film.
Mamakuna (Mamá Cirila) - Documentary
Puntaman puririsu (We keep moving forward) - Documentary
Achka Illaki kallpanchawaraku (So much pain gave us strength and courage) - Documentary
Other memories: The fighter.
Museum of Memory in Ayacucho. Anfasep
2000
Women at the Anfasep headquarters in Ayacucho
2000
Mamá Angélica and her fellow founding members of the National Association of Families of Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared Persons of Peru.
1990
MAMA ANGÉLICA
1985
Angélica Mendoza
1984
Peasant woman demands answers about a relative's disappearance
1984