5 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
Can Peru speak of reconciliation when those who attack the FINAL report of the Truth Commission have not read it? ¡Todos contra la verdad! (Everyone Against the Truth), the new …
Morote said he believes that neither right-wing nor left-wing politicians, nor even the head of state, have read the CVR report. Eleven years after the submission of the report of …
The book ¡Todos contra la verdad! by writer Herbert Morote, through plain language and without literary pretensions, seeks to disseminate what is not known but is condemned about the Comisión …
Who does not want the CVR report to be disseminated? Is Sendero Luminoso resurging? Did the military kill more than Sendero during the period of political violence? These and more …
The maximum-security status of the Yanamayo prison, located in Puno at 4,200 meters above sea level, was called into question this week by the 38-minute interview that MRTA member Jaime …
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Interview conducted by the CVR with retired Police Health personnel in the city of Lima. This interview is part of the documentation on the psychological and mental health effects on members of the police forces during the internal armed conflict. The testimony is mentioned in the context of an analysis …
Interview with Dr. Yolanda Cáceres Bocanegra, medical examiner and member of the Peruvian Society of Legal Medicine. The interview was conducted in the context of the CVR's investigation into the case of María Magdalena Monteza Benavides, who denounced having been a victim of rape during her detention by Army personnel …
Interview with a young woman who served as an authority during the internal armed conflict in Ayacucho. The interview is part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work to collect testimonies. The testimony addresses the social consequences of the conflict, including the increase in common crime, youth gangs and the …
In-depth interview with a 35-year-old farmer in the locality of Oronqoy, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The interview was carried out between November and December 2002 as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work to collect testimonies. The testimony deals with the experiences lived during the internal …
In-depth interview with a Shining Path militant who was imprisoned in October 2002. The interviewee described aspects of the Shining Path organization and its methods of social control. In her testimony, she explained how the Shining Path took on the functions of justice in areas where there were no state …
Interview with a teacher who was a member of the peasant federation in Tarapoto, department of San Martin. The testimony is part of the in-depth interviews conducted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to document the effects of the internal armed conflict on social organizations and local leadership. The interview …
Interview conducted with a psychologist from the Prelatural Office of Social Action in Tarapoto, San Martin, during October 2002. The testimony collected addresses the situation of anxiety experienced from the 1980s to the present at the time of the interview. The psychologist points out that many leaders gave their lives …
Informal interview conducted with two villagers, a woman and a man, in Huambalpa, Vilcas Huamán. The interview is part of the TRC's fieldwork to document the testimonies of communities affected by the internal armed conflict. The villagers shared their experiences about the violence lived in the area during the conflict …
In-depth interview conducted in Huancayo documenting the disappearances of MRTA militants in the urban area during 1991, 1992 and 1993. The testimony indicates that the MRTA was hit hard in the urban zone, with many simultaneous disappearances, especially student members of the MRTA. The interviewee mentions that many good cadres …
Informal interview conducted with a 48-year-old woman farmer in Accomarca, Ayacucho, during June 2002. The interview is part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) work to collect testimonies on the effects of the internal armed conflict on rural communities in Ayacucho. The testimony collected documents the experiences and perspectives …
Interview conducted with a 50 year-old villager and teacher from Accomarca, in the context of the CVR's research on the effects of the internal armed conflict in the communities of Ayacucho. The interview is part of the documentation work on the social consequences of political violence in the area, including …
In-depth interview conducted in the town of Cedruyoj, district of Monobamba, as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's investigation. The testimony corresponds to a woman inhabitant of Huertas who witnessed an armed confrontation in the area. The interview is part of the process of collecting testimonies about the internal …
In-depth interview with a former president of CODDEH (Committee for the Defense of Human Rights) who was also a university professor in the city of Puno. The interview was conducted in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's collection of testimonies on human rights violations during the internal armed …
Interview with a former authority of the Venenillo hamlet in the province of Leoncio Prado, department of Huánuco. This interview is part of the documentation compiled by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the effects of the internal armed conflict on rural communities. The testimony collected addresses issues related to …
Interview with a villager who worked as a health worker at the Venenillo Medical Post. This interview is part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work of compiling testimonies on the effects of the internal armed conflict in the communities of Leoncio Prado province. The testimony documents the experiences and …
Interview conducted with an authority of the Primavera hamlet in the province of Leoncio Prado, Huánuco, in May 2002. The authority interviewed provided testimony about the impact of the internal armed conflict on her community. The testimony is part of the documentation compiled by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to …
Interview conducted with a former authority of the Venenillo hamlet in the province of Leoncio Prado, Huánuco, as part of the collection of testimonies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The interview addresses the impact of the internal armed conflict on local authority structures and the destructuring of the community. …
Interview conducted with a Dominican nun of Colombian nationality in the city of Ayacucho during May 2002. The interview is part of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) in compiling testimonies on the internal armed conflict in Peru. The testimony of the nun is framed in the …
Interview with a former local authority in Sancos about the period of political violence. The testimony addresses the assassination, flight or imposition of authorities that generated a local power vacuum during the internal armed conflict. The interview is part of the documentation on the destructuring of the system of communal …
Interview with a 50-year-old teacher in the town of Carapo, Ayacucho province, as part of the collection of testimonies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This interview is part of the documentation work on the impacts of the internal armed conflict in Ayacucho's rural communities. The testimony was recorded as …
Interview conducted with a 70-year-old woman pastor in Sancos, Ayacucho, as part of the collection of testimonies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The testimony is part of the documentation on the effects of the internal armed conflict in the rural communities of Ayacucho. The interview gathers the experience and …
Interview with Saturnina Figueroa, widow of Severino Huáscar Morales Ccente, in the community of Uchuraccay. Severino Morales was identified in Shining Path documents as 'commissary of the Popular Committee of Uchuraccay' and was locally responsible for the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the community. The interview is part of the CVR's investigations …
Interview conducted in the community of Uchuraccay as part of the investigation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The interview was carried out in the context of the collection of testimonies on the violent events that occurred during the internal armed conflict. The testimonies collected were part of the process …
On July 24, 1988, the newspaper El Diario, mouthpiece of the PCP-SL, published the self-styled Interview of the Century with Abimael Guzmán. The interview was illustrated with old photos and an apparently recent one with a background of vegetation to mislead the reader. Guzmán opted for the written press format …
The Shining Path held its first party congress in three parts. During this congress it was defined as a new objective of its people's war plan that the strategic balance should shake the whole country, proposing to accentuate its offensive in urban areas, mainly in Lima. Between sessions, an interview …
In 1988, Abimael Guzmán gave the so-called 'Interview of the Century', in which he announced the siege of the city of Lima as part of the strategic balance of the PCP-SL. This interview marked a turning point in the subversive strategy, indicating the intention of turning Metropolitan Lima into the …
During a series of takeovers of localities by the MRTA in the department of San Martin, journalists interviewed Commander Rolando, head of the MRTA column, in the context of the armed actions that led the government to hand over political-military control of the entire department of San Martin to the …
