105 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
During the last part of the twentieth century, the highlands of Peru saw the emergence of one of the most brutal guerrilla organizations in the world, the Partido Comunista de …
FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER a powerful rebellion spread fear and destruction throughout the nation of Peru, the commanding general of the Peruvian Army, Otto Guibovich, provided the ominous warning: "If we …
FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER a powerful rebellion spread fear and destruction throughout Peru, the commanding general of the Peruvian Army, Otto Guibovich, issued the following ominous warning: "If we don't do …
PERU: FUJIMORI'S FORCED STERILIZATION CAMPAIGN. (Insight News TV. 11'40'') http://www.insightnewstv.com/d68/ SECRET STERILIZATION- PERU (Journeyman Pictures. 28'43'') http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv9GtGl4Odk This is an impressive TV document which shows crude testimonies of victims, government …
Amid ever-increasing evidence of coercive government population control efforts and sterilization campaigns in Peru, the Latin American Alliance for the Family (ALAFA) has called for the U.S. government to withdraw …
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 two main rebel groups in Peru, both leftist, are the Maoist group Sendero Luminoso and the Cuban-inspired Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA). Both organizations operated most forcefully in the …
Excerpt from the book "Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits" by Steven W. Mosher. Available at http://www.pop.org/20090123819/human-rights-reproductive-wrongs. The sterilization campaign had begun the previous year. President Alberto Fujimori, elected to …
On 7 April 2009, Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, was found guilty of grave human rights violations and sentenced to 25 years in prison – the …
ABSTRACT This Article argues that the exclusion of enforced sterilization cases from the Peruvian Truth Commission's (CVR's) investigation and Final Report effectively erases state responsibility and greatly decreases the likelihood …
The translation of this article also appears in our Hemeroteca under the title "Sterile Beliefs: Sterilization and Contraception in Peru." This paper examines the sociocultural ramifications of a government-mandated sterilization …
Jo-Marie Burt witnessed the first week of the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori in Lima as an accredited observer for WOLA. This is her report. The trial of Alberto …
The translation of this article appears in our Hemeroteca under the title: FREE CHOICE OR POVERTY RELIEF? POPULATION POLICIES IN ALBERTO FUJIMORI'S PERU. In 1995, the Peruvian government of Alberto …
Summary: The world today faces not only a clash of civilizations but a clash of emotions as well. The West displays and is divided by a culture of fear, while …
Status report on Reparations up to 2006. The reparations law echoes the CMAN Framework in that it rejects the notion of compensation or pensions to individual
The Reparations Law echoes the CMAN framework in rejecting the notion of compensation or pensions to victims, providing instead a comprehensive set of symbolic and material reparations for both individual …
This article takes the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) photographic exhibit, Yuyanapaq, as a site from which to think about the place of photographs in projects that aim to …
This article analyzes the photographic exhibition of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), Yuyanapaq, and reflects on the role of photography in projects that aim to recover collective …
While the detention of Guzmán proved fatal for Sendero Luminoso, Peru's military intelligence, under Vladimiro Montesinos, intensified the persecution of terrorism suspects, the use of torture, and death squads. In …
The American directors of two documentaries being shown at Film Forum in New York this month believe it does: at the very least, they say, the Peruvian experience is a …
Volume 88 Number 862 June 2006. Numerous truth commissions of different types are being created around the world. The purpose of this schematic overview is to study the variety and …
The IFCVR shows how, in addition to being direct victims of kidnappings, forced recruitment, arbitrary detentions, physical and psychological torture, forced disappearances, massacres and extrajudicial executions, women also suffered from …
"Your passport, Sir!" It was 1965 and I had just landed in Lima, the capital of Peru, the first stop on my way to the Andes, where I was to …
Unlike Bolivia and Ecuador, Peru has not seen the emergence of indigenous political movements and parties, even though its indigenous population is, in absolute terms, the largest in South America. …
Unlike Bolivia and Ecuador, Peru has not seen the emergence of indigenous political movements and parties, even though its indigenous population is, in absolute terms, the largest in South America. …
Which of the democratic checks and balances - opposition parties, the judiciary, a free press - is the most critical? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the …
Of the checks and balances on which every democracy is based, which is the most critical? Peru has set in motion the full set of democratic mechanisms: a Constitution, opposition …
The report from the Peruvian Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) observes that the total estimated number of victims (69,280) differs considerably from the figures commonly advanced before the …
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 …
We believe that the consolidation of democracy in Peru is key to the national security of U.S. interests, not only in Peru, but throughout the region. We also believe that …
This article appears translated in our Hemeroteca under the title: PERU SEEKS TO BAN POPULAR BIRTH CONTROL METHOD. (WOMENSENEWS)--Conservative officials within the Peruvian government are attempting to ban sterilization, the …
Note: The following is excerpted from Steven Mosher's book, Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. When the government sterilization team arrived in their little town of La Legua, Peru, Celia Durand …
Conclusions 1. It is proven that the Ministry of Health carried out the National Program of Family Planning and that 314,605 women and 24,563 men were sterilized from 1990 to …
In January 1998, PRI sent researcher David Morrison to Peru to investigate reports that women were being forcibly sterilized. What he discovered was a nationwide campaign, aimed specifically at sterilizing …
The National Police, supported in this drug-producing region by U.S.-donated helicopters, intelligence, and training, says that Sendero Luminoso is regrouping with far stronger ties than in the past to drug …
This article is the translation of the title IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CRIME. The redress of past injustices has been seen in three main forms, which appear in our …
This is a comprehensive analysis of tribunals that search justice as well reparations and reconciliation of the society. Reading this article is indispensable for the understanding the difficulties of the …
This Catholic organization denounces the atrocities of the forced sterilization campaign during the Fujimori era. In recent weeks (mid-December 1997 to mid-January 1998), there have been 16 articles in a …
The papers collected in this volume are published by the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) in order to increase public understanding of the sources and purposes of terrorism. Each …
This book exists in Spanish under the title: LOS SENDEROS INSÓLITOS DEL PERÚ, GUERRA Y SOCIEDADES 1980–1995. Search by the author's surname: STERN. The agenda of this book is to …
On my first trip to Peru in 1983, I slipped a note into my pocket to give to the guerrillas in case they stopped the bus and searched the passengers. …
This submission is intended only as a starting point to aid the Commission in understanding how gender forms part of the truth and reconciliation process. We have explored some of …
This report originated from the workshop held on March 19, 1996 at the University of the Witwatersrand. The workshop, titled "Gender and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission," was convened by …
LIMA, Peru, Jan. 11 — Lori Helene Berenson of New York was convicted of treason today by a secret Peruvian military court and sentenced to life in prison for aiding …
(Lima, Peru, January 11) Lori Helene Berenson, of New York, was convicted of treason today by a secret Peruvian military court and sentenced to life in prison for aiding Marxist …
This paper argues that Sendero Luminoso's ideological promotion of political violence is attractive to some disenfranchised individuals whose aspirations are unsatisfied by their achievements. However, it does not assert that …
This article examines the history and the ideology of Shining Path, the Marxism and its indifference to the culture and traditions of Peruvians.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Peru is a country experiencing a profound economic and political transition. Of all the calamities a nation can suffer, Peru has endured a disproportionate share over the last …
JORGE GONZALES-LARA. Facts on Peru. New York, 1992. Brief summary of the geography, culture, demography, history, political system, political parties, major press publications, insurgent groups, paramilitary groups, labor unions, popular …
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