Barrios Altos and La Cantuta are the cases that could put former President Fujimori behind bars. Most Peruvians know fragments of what happened — broken accounts, painful images — but …
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510 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
According to this book, Peru's Armed Forces have been unjustly accused by the CVR and NGOs for the atrocities committed between 1980 and 2000. Quote from the book: "The biased …
Human Rights organizations and relatives of victims of the internal conflict commemorated today, August 28, the 15th Anniversary of the delivery of the CVR report, paying a heartfelt tribute to …
On June 21, 2016, Law 30470, the Law on the Search for Disappeared Persons during the Period of Violence 1980–2000, was enacted, marking a paradigm shift in state intervention by …
The Madre Mía Case, related to an alleged human rights violation, is haunting former president Ollanta Humala once again. The Investigative Unit of El Comercio revealed information contained in 111 …
The alleged crimes of aggravated homicide in the form of murder with ferocity and by explosion, for which 35 former naval officers are being prosecuted in the El Frontón Case, …
On July 23, 2015, the Ministerio de Defensa announced that the Ejército Peruano had rescued 26 children and 13 adults who had been living under the control of the remnants …
Text that presents and summarizes the research. "The elaboration of the book La violencia política en el Perú 1980-2000. Sendero Luminoso contra el Estado y la sociedad (Paris, L'Harmattan, May …
Army Lieutenant (ret.) Juan Manuel Elías Rivera Rondón (56), sentenced last September to 24 years in prison for being one of the members of the military patrol that in August …
The Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH) expresses its greatest satisfaction at the ruling issued by judge Hugo Rodolfo Velásquez Zavaleta, presiding judge of the Fifth Specialized Constitutional Court of …
The authors of this important work were born in those villages and therefore decided to write the momentous history of their communities in clear commitment to their past and despite …
Report on the configuration of a necessary theoretical framework to assess the criminal responsibility of members of the Ejército peruano for acts of sexual violence attributed to them by women …
Critique of José Carlos Agüero's book.
Historian José Carlos Agüero raises the need for dialogue about the victims of Sendero Luminoso and their families.
Witness. A human rights consultant and former Amnesty Internacional researcher comes to Lima to testify in the trial of senior military officers in the Los Cabitos case. He recalls the …
The impressive raid against Movadef, which took place last week, might suggest, judging by the resources mobilized, that the Peruvian government responded on all fronts to a major, clear, and …
The publication of a book about what happened at the Los Cabitos barracks in Ayacucho in 1983 invites reflection on a tragedy that some wish to silence (Cuartel Los Cabitos. …
In the Los Cabitos barracks in Ayacucho, 59 complete skeletons were found, along with bones corresponding to more than one hundred bodies out of a much larger total number of …
The Policía Nacional and the Armed Forces dealt a decisive blow to Movadef, the political arm of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso: Operation "Perseo" resulted in the capture of 24 …
Background and justification of La Hoyada as a "Sanctuary in Memory of the Victims of Violence"
The path traveled by the victims, their families, and APRODEH is the book written by Gloria Cano, executive director of the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH). It narrates the situation …
The present research — Entre el estigma y el silencio: memoria de la violencia entre estudiantes de la UNMSM y la UNSCH — deals precisely with one of the institutions …
This collection of testimonies gathered and selected by the author during his time in Ayacucho between 1987 and 1991, in the midst of the internal armed conflict, constitutes a valuable …
Maintaining his direct style, without ambiguities or artifice, Morote unmasks those who attack the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación to conceal their crimes, complicity, or silence committed during the …
The content of this publication is a translation of the Abbreviated Version of the Peruvian Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission first published in Spanish in February 2004. …
Ombudsman Report No. 162, "Ten Years of Truth, Justice and Reparation. Progress, Setbacks and Challenges of an Unfinished Process," accounts for the efforts undertaken after the delivery of the final …
Peru is the new cradle of drug trafficking; this is reflected in the latest report of the Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), which was produced by the governments of the …
The Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación reported approximately 69,000 persons disappeared in the context of political violence that occurred in the period 1980–2000 in our …
Lima accounts for only 2% of the disappeared at the national level. But this does not prevent the identification of a pattern of disappearances. Three moments are identified in the …
The main finding of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), ten years ago, was quantitative in nature: the 69,000 fatal victims and the assertion that the main perpetrator …
The publication of the Final Report (IF) of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) in 2003 provoked a rupture across the various scientific and artistic disciplines in the …
The Joint Command of the Armed Forces reported that during the early hours of Monday, a confrontation between authorities and members of Sendero Luminoso in the jungle of Ayacucho (southern …
Salomón Lerner, who presided over Peru's truth commission, reflects on the eventual creation of a truth commission in Colombia. On August 28, the tenth anniversary of the presentation of the …
The population of Huanta, a province in the Ayacucho region, today received with a large mobilization of authorities, public institutions, students, and human rights organizations 92 coffins of victims of …
According to military authorities in the Vraem, the deaths of "Alipio" and "Gabriel" represent for the terrorist organization the loss of its armed backbone, from which it will be difficult …
An anti-terrorism strategy based on specialized intelligence is decisive in defeating terrorism and is already yielding successes in the Vraem, said today the head of the Joint Command of the …
"There has been a great deal of prejudice in the CVR's work, and it continues to exist. There are people who criticize without reading," says Lerner Febres about the final …
The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reported approximately 69,000 people disappeared in the context of the political violence that took place in the period 1980–2000 in our …
For the past 15 days, two narco-terrorist incursions have been disturbing the mourning that this community still lives through, decimated since 1983 by the terrorist group Shining Path and the …
Twenty-six peasant families in Cusco recovered this Tuesday the remains of their loved ones who died in the 1980s in the crossfire unleashed between the armed forces and the terrorist …
Defensoría Report No. 162.
This document has an exploratory character in that it presents advances in understanding a complex social phenomenon such as the memory of the internal armed conflict and its process of …
The objective of this research is to study the meaning of being or feeling like a victim in Peru after the internal armed conflict. More than a study on the …
This research was conducted in the community of Putacca, Ayacucho, with a group of adolescents who participated in a collective memory project promoted by the Asociación Paz y Esperanza. Theory …
This thesis seeks to identify the different discursive practices developed by Sendero Luminoso and the Peruvian Army from the perspective of the peasants of Chungui. I intend to demonstrate that …
This study aims to explore and analyze the relationships between values, well-being, and individual and collective emotions in a group of people who were exposed to political violence during the …
The work presented below is the product of a joint effort by the Grupo Memoria at the IEP, with students from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional …
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Detention and torture of witness in the Uchuraccay case
In mid-September 1984, a witness in the Uchuraccay case was detained by a group of Marines and taken to the Tambo military barracks. There she was tortured and raped, despite having the guarantees of the Peruvian Episcopate and the Ministry of the Interior due to her status as a witness …
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Impunidad de Violaciones Sexuales por Fuerzas Armadas en Perú
In 1983, rape committed by members of the Peruvian Armed and Police Forces was common. Perpetrators adopted nom de guerre and hid their ranks to avoid being identified, contributing to a culture of impunity. Military authorities protected the perpetrators, and victims faced difficulties in reporting due to fear and shame.
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Attack on Uchiza Police Post
In 1982, the Uchiza Police Post was attacked by the subversive group PCP-SL. Despite desperate radio calls, reinforcements never arrived from a nearby military base, evidencing the lack of coordination between military and police forces. This event highlighted the disregard and lack of cooperation between the Armed Forces and the …
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Shining Path: Initiator and main party responsible for the violence. Part 1
Shining Path
Interview with Maria Luisa Tello - Granddaughter of Santiago Tello (Cayara Case)
Interview with Cesáreo Calderón - Father of John Calderón Ríos (Pativilca Case)
Interview with Tania Pariona - Pativilca Case Hearing
Ada Ochoa Solano - Widow of Felandro Castillo Manrique - Pativilca Case (Caraqueño)
Place of memory, tolerance and social inclusion
Dr. Gloria Cano - Aprodeh Lawyer - On the verdict in the "Cabitos" case
Island - Documentary
"NN". Film. Trailer.
27 years after the Cayara massacre
"Greetings from Los Cabitos". Documentary. Fragment 1
"Greetings from Los Cabitos". Documentary. Fragment 2
"La hoyada: Sanctuary of memory". Documentary
"Greetings from Los Cabitos". Documentary. Trailer
"Greetings from Los Cabitos". Documentary. Fragment 3
Inauguration of the "Place of Memory"
Cayara case. Interview with mayor David Ccayo.
30 years for equality, justice and dignity. Aprodeh anniversary
2014
ENCROACHMENTS ON LA HOYADA
2014
LA HOYADA, 2014
Testimony of Toribia Casa Carrasco
Testimony of Yasmina Fuentes Tello
Testimony of Víctor Sánchez Marca
Interview with Gloria Cano. CVR+10
Testimony of Juana Bustos Huamaní
Sexual violence in Llusita (Ayacucho)
Testimony of Gladis Felicitas Tello Merino
Testimony of Evaristo Contreras Huamán
Testimony of Faustina Huamán Junco
Lirio Qasa - Song
Testimony of Ramiro Niño de Guzmán
Testimony of Agripina Pedraza Martínez
Mamakuna (Mamá Cirila) - Documentary
Sanctuary - Documentary
Jaynapuncha Pajarin (Yesterday and tomorrow)
Martyrs of Uchuraccay. Fragment of the documentary "Traces of the path"
Achka Illaki kallpanchawaraku (So much pain gave us strength and courage) - Documentary
"Accomarca". Documentary
RETABLO. LIRIO QAQA, DEEP ABYSS
RETABLO. ENOUGH TORTURE
2012
RETABLO. START OF SCHOOL YEAR
2012
RETABLO. WOMAN IN THE CEMETERY
2012
RETABLO, VENTURA CCALAMAQUI
2012
RETABLO. HORNS AND CLAWS
Interview with Gloria Cano about the El Frontón massacre
Interview with Gloria Cano on impunity. Cases like La Cantuta and the Colina Group.
RETABLO. PHOTOGRAPH BY EDILBERTO JIMÉNEZ
2012