74 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
The allegations of forced sterilizations made by various women and organizations in Peru over these years take on special significance in the efforts of a group of twelve Quechua-speaking peasant …
On May 17, 1980, in Chuschi, Ayacucho, terror was born. In this province whose Quechua name means 'corner of the dead,' the number of those killed and disappeared approaches 26,000, …
For American researcher Jocelyn E. Getgen of Cornell University, there is no doubt: the forced sterilizations perpetrated during the government of Alberto Fujimori, which violated more than 200,000 indigenous, Quechua-speaking, …
A crime that has been overlooked by Peruvian authorities when trying former president Alberto Fujimori for human rights violations is that of the forced sterilizations promoted and carried out during …
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 …
The lawyer from the "Movimiento Manuela Ramos," Rocío Villanueva, now director of IDEHPUCP, was in charge of investigating forced sterilizations as an official of the Defensoría del Pueblo. From her …
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 …
Our virtual library www.genocidioayacucho.com contains many articles related to Fujimori's genocidal campaign to reduce the indigenous population. The number of women forced into sterilization exceeded 250,000. Here we present some …
Fujimori's false rhetoric, claiming that his family planning program would give indigenous people access to the same contraceptive methods as wealthy families in Lima, was simply a campaign to permanently …
A thesis recently presented at the Universidad Católica reminds us of what Fujimorism in power represented. It is a sharp analysis of the development of state policies of mass sterilization …
The Fujimori government organized a campaign to forcibly sterilize women, most of them indigenous Quechua-speaking women. Deception and threats were employed. This crime is considered genocide by experts in International …
Cardinal Cipriani opposes the morning-after pill, but did not protest the forced sterilization program of 250,000 women ordered by Fujimori
Requests 25 years in prison for the perpetrators of an execrable crime and 14 million soles in reparations for victims. The prosecutor of the third superior criminal chamber of Lima, …
It seems incredible, but there is a powerful sector of our society that does not want reconciliation between the State and the victims of the genocide. What do these people …
Calling what happened in Peru between 1980 and 2000 genocide is not politically or socially correct. We understand that State institutions avoid this term since they were partly responsible for …
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 …
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 …
This article argues that the exclusion of forced sterilization cases from the investigation and Final Report of the Truth Commission effectively erases State responsibility and significantly reduces the prospects for …
Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Forced Sterilizations from the CVR. This is the title of Jocelyn E. Getgen's article "Untold Truths: The Exclusion of Enforced Sterilizations from the Peruvian Truth …
A brilliant analysis by the author on forced sterilizations in Peru and their international repercussions.
Continuing from the last post on the topic of the genocide of sterilizations, which already contains links to various materials on the subject, in this post I compile additional links …
This was revealed through the testimonies of affected women. The special prosecutor's office cannot archive the reported cases. NGOs will appeal the decision because crimes against humanity cannot be subject …
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 …
Starting at 9:00 this morning, the Ministerio Público will proceed with the handover of 105 bodies that were exhumed in the district of Santo Tomás de Pata, province of Angaraes, …
Despite eight years having passed since the Ministerio Público began investigations into the Putis massacre, which occurred in 1984 in Ayacucho, the Fiscalía Penal Supranacional of that region has not …
This article argues that the exclusion of forced sterilization cases from the investigation and Final Report of the Truth Commission effectively erases state responsibility, and significantly reduces the possibilities of …
This prestigious law journal from Boston College criticizes the omission in the CVR report of the Family Planning Program implemented by the Fujimori government, which forced the sterilization of 200,000 …
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 …
While sheltered in his golden refuge in Tokyo, former dictator Alberto Fujimori emphatically denied that 300,000 forced sterilizations had been registered during his government because, by his own reckoning, "only …
In the 1990s, the government of Alberto Fujimori launched a Family Planning program for birth control, using various contraceptive methods, including voluntary surgical sterilization, which resulted in 270,000 sterilizations, the …
More than 250,000 cases in a "campaign" where officials were threatened with dismissal if they did not meet "their quota." The former Minister of Health, Fernando Carbone, confirmed that, according …
It is the outcry of the women sterilized in the Asháninka native community, decimated by "family planning."
On June 19, 1986, the most sinister extermination operation took place in the prisons of El Frontón, Lurigancho, and Santa Bárbara. 254 inmates were extrajudicially executed. The rioters denounced an …
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 …
Genocide is the systematic killing of an ethnic or racial group by members of another group or race. Between 1980 and 1993, indigenous people (particularly Quechua speakers) experienced genocide carried …
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 …
The prison holding Abimael Guzmán, founder of the bloodthirsty Maoist guerrilla Sendero Luminoso, whose trial began 15 days ago in Peru, was built especially for him and is the most …
During the presidency of Alberto Fujimori, a birth-control plan was implemented targeting the poorest sectors of the Peruvian population, essentially indigenous people, which under the pretext of improving living conditions …
POOR ILLITERATES OF INDIGENOUS ORIGIN, THEY WERE MANIPULATED AND OPERATED ON WILLINGLY OR BY FORCE. TODAY THEY MUST FACE THIS TERRIBLE MUTILATION (Poor illiterate women of indigenous origin, they were …
In Peru, between 1995 and 2000, the second government of former President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori launched an aggressive nationwide sterilization campaign aimed, in effect, at preventing births in the poorest …
"They don't suffer — they're used to it," says a woman to her son on a collective bus crossing Huancavelica. Coming to terms with the CVR report will mean admitting …
Through a petition submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on June 15, 1999, the non-governmental organizations Estudio para la Defensa de la Mujer (DEMUS), the Comité de América …
Interview with Manuelcha Prado. The pre-existing interethnic violence in the country, fueled by the actions of Sendero and the dirty war waged by the armed forces, did not end with …
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 …
At the end of June 2002, the parliamentary report became known regarding the abuses committed by the Fujimori government through its reproductive health programs, which victimized nearly 350,000 Peruvian men …
During the course of the investigation into irregularities in the performance of sterilizations and vasectomies in the country, various difficulties arose. We note that the events under investigation occurred primarily …
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 …
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 …
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At approximately 4:00 a.m., Shining Path terrorists had almost finished killing all the inhabitants of one community, including small children and infants. The terrorists commented: 'only the intelligent ones will be left here, and those who are not, will die'. They proceeded to interrogate the surviving children about their knowledge. …
Between the second half of the 1980s and the early 1990s, the Asháninka people suffered a tragedy of enormous proportions. Some 6,000 Asháninka died, 10,000 were displaced and some 5,000 were taken captive by the Shining Path. Approximately 30 to 40 communities were disappeared and at least 60 mass graves …
The Peruvian State approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide through Legislative Resolution 13288 dated December 29, 1959. This Convention had been adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 1948. The approval of this international instrument incorporated into the Peruvian legal system the international …
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