Today marks the sixth anniversary of the delivery of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), and the bereaved families of the victims and authorities …
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5 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
Yuyaykuna expresses the profound feelings of the men and women of the Andes, of those who personally suffered the ill-fated years of war, terror, and death in the eighties and …
This publication presents the stories of four communities: Colpas in Huanuco, Ccatun Rumi on the border of Ayacucho and Cusco, Pajarillo in San Martín, and José Carlos Mariátegui in the …
Built on the testimony of victims and family members who directly experienced the cruelty of members of the security forces — who, paradoxically, had an obligation to protect them — …
After contrasting the theses on collective action and social movements defended by various theoretical schools, the author adopts the perspective of rational action and draws on the cases of Sendero …
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Release of innocent people by pardon
Between 1996 and 1999, the Peruvian State had to pardon 502 people unjustly convicted of terrorism and treason. This was a consequence of the serious errors committed by the system implemented to prosecute the accused, which violated elementary principles of due process. The magnitude of these errors demonstrated the structural …
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