18 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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. …
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 isappearances, massacres and extrajudicial executions, women also suffered from …
The field for this project was carried out in two trips. The first period was in 1997 and lasted eight months. The second was in 2000, and was carried out …
The papers collected in this volume are published by the Johns Hopkins Foreign Institute (FPI) in order to increase public understanding of the sources and purposes of terrorism. Each paper …
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 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 …
Poverty, fanaticism, lack of institutional representation, or frustraited expectations among peasants are some of the principal explanations scholars have offered for the civil war. After a close examination of the …
This annotated bibliography consists of monographs and periodical articles; it does not include newspapers, Peruvians or U.S. While a great deal of good reporting on the war has come from …
When, on the night of his capture, Abimael Guzmán, leader of Sendero Luminoso, came face to face with General Antonio Vidal, head of Perú´s elite anti-terrorism police (DIRCOTE), he apparently …
A woman from Huamanga, the capital of Ayacucho, was asked by a cousin if he could stay in her house one evening. Even though she knew her cousin was said …
The author was born in London. He was foreign correspondent for the BBC and The Independent in Ecuador and Peru in 1988. This book is based in hundreds of interviews …
This report describes the Shining Path´s urban campaing against the government of Peru. The study founded on a database assessment of war, the author´s travels in Peru, and interviews with …
Many peruvians conceive of the Senderistas as a group of fanatics, blindly dedicated to Gonzalo´s ideology and program. The armed forces have never understood the movement’s power and appeal. One …
After spending almost 20 years conducting ethnographic research in the department of Ayacucho, Perú, I find myself listening to the tapes recording of the voices from communities that I have …
Sendero Luminoso- the “Shining Path”- ranks among the most elusive secretive and brutal guerrilla organizations in the world. For a decade, it has carried out a violent, clandestine rebellion in …
Since the beginning of Sendero Luminoso´s declaration of a “prolonged peoples of war” in 1980, one of the most frequently asked questions has been: “Does Sendero Luminoso have peasant support? …
The peruvian guerrilla movement “Sendero Luminoso” first came to public attention in 1980 with violence in the departments of Ayacucho and Lima. Since that time, its influence on Peruvian politics …
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