The Lima Supraprovincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office decided to reopen the investigation into the case of the forced sterilization carried out on María Mestanza Chávez during the government of former President …
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7 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) is a great achievement of Peru's democratic transition. The CVR Report, presented to the country on August 28, 2003, consists of 9 volumes with …
This article addresses the situation of women during and after the internal armed conflict, as well as the role of women in the articulation of reparations, and constitutes Chapter 3 …
That is how Defense Minister Rafael Rey characterized the final report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) regarding the role played by the Armed Forces in the …
If Angélica Mendoza had been born in Buenos Aires or Lima, she would probably be an international symbol of the struggle against impunity today, like Hebe Bonafini, the president of …
Steps that must be taken for a region ravaged by violence, exclusion, and their aftermath to make the CVR Report its own.
The work by Toche, which consists of an essay that seeks to reconstruct the different scenarios in which the conflict between the State and the Non-Governmental Development Organizations – ONGD …
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Murder of promoter Zacarías Magallanes
Zacarías Magallanes, promoter of the NGO Ideas, was murdered in Huaycán. This murder is part of a series of executions carried out by the PCP-SL against leaders and activists in Huaycán during the 1990s, even after the capture of Abimael Guzmán.
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Murder of Zacarías Magallanes Mejía
On March 31, 1992, the PCP-SL assassinated Zacarías Magallanes Mejía, a promoter belonging to the NGO IDEAS and one of the founders of the Huaycán human settlement. This murder marked the beginning of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against officials of non-governmental organizations. Magallanes Mejía was a community leader …
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Kidnapping and murder of Victor Lozano and Manuel Soto
In January 1989, the PCP-SL kidnapped Víctor Lozano, communal authority of Chicche and delegate of his community to the SAIS-Cahuide, together with Manuel Soto, anthropologist and promoter of the NGO CICEP that maintained projects in the area. Both were tortured by the subversives. Later, they were shot to death in …
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Assassination of CICDA aid workers in Haquira
On December 6, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered three aid workers from the International Cooperation Center for Agricultural Development (CICDA) in the district of Haquira, province of Cotabambas, Apurimac. The victims were two French aid workers and a Peruvian, as well as two other people. This attack was part of …
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Murder of aid workers in Haquira
On December 5, 1988, a column of the Shining Path PCP took the town of Haquira in the province of Cotabambas, Apurimac. During this raid, the subversive group murdered two local villagers, two French aid workers and a Peruvian technician. The foreign victims and the Peruvian technician worked for the …
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Looting of NGO's post and houses in native community
On October 29, 1987, members of the PCP-SL looted a native community in the Central Jungle. During this action, they ransacked the medical post and the homes of workers of two non-governmental organizations operating in the community: the Amazonian Center for Anthropology and Practical Application (CAAAP) and Save the Children. …
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Talks on violence in Independencia and Carabayllo
The NGO CIPEP, which operated in Independencia and Carabayllo, organized talks on violence in conjunction with parishes and the Peru Life and Peace Forum in 1987. These talks took place in the context of an upsurge of violence in the Northern Zone of Metropolitan Lima. By then, the increase in …