22 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
One year after the takeover, former Japanese Ambassador Morihisa Aoki recalls the nightmare he lived through during the seizure of his residence in Lima. For Aoki, the rescue operation — …
The mother of MRTA leader Víctor Polay, imprisoned at the Naval Base in Callao, received CARETAS at her home in Camacho on the one-year anniversary of the takeover of the …
A recent document by General Nicolás Hermoza puts on the table the problem of relations between the press and the Armed Forces.
The key figure of the guarantors' commission breaks his silence in Madrid. In an interview on May 11th in Spain, Cipriani states that after the crisis, he prefers to keep …
Once the smoke cleared from the spectacular operation that allowed the rescue of the hostages at the Japanese ambassador's residence, suspicions and half-truths have emerged about some of the actors …
An upright magistrate, Ernesto Giusti fought to make the Judicial Branch an effective institution. A range of written messages by the magistrate during his four months as a hostage.
Pain, confinement, and fear. The high costs of being related to an MRTA member. A kind of epilogue hangs over the families of the Túpac Amaru fighters who stormed the …
The secret story of Juan Valer, the commando who received the order to bring Minister Tudela out of the Japanese residence safe and sound, and fulfilled it even at the …
The members of the guarantors commission were not informed at any point of the order, date, or preparations for the military incursion at the perimeter of the house in San …
The circumstances surrounding the recapture of the Japanese ambassador's residence and the rescue of the 172 captives through a flawlessly executed and high-risk military operation have been, without doubt, enormous, …
The approximately 40 minutes the rescue operation lasted must have felt like an eternity to the hostages held in Ambassador Aoki's residence. As the days pass, their testimonies are allowing …
Tuesday the 22nd, 3:23 p.m. Three powerful detonations rock the Japanese ambassador's residence. Operation Chavín de Huántar had begun. Both Fujimori and Montesinos had been meeting with military commanders for …
Japan again calls for a peaceful solution to the hostage crisis, while strange attacks poison the political climate. There is also no mediator — the figure who could help bring …
In a scale model of the Japanese ambassador's residence, built at the Barbadillo estate, elite police forces have been rehearsing for weeks a possible violent rescue of the hostages.
Just when a shared agenda between the government and the MRTA finally seemed to be taking shape, the revelation of the existence of a tunnel through which a rescue operation …
As the hostage crisis drags on another week, and public opinion shows reluctance to accept concessions for the MRTA members, the relatives of the victims decide to break their usual …
As four months of the hostage crisis pass, the mediators' work slowly appears to be bearing fruit. The parties are now discussing specific points.
When Ariel Frisancho, head of international cooperation at the Ministry of Health, and Víctor Lucero, director of the Hospital María Auxiliadora, were finally released, they left behind at the Japanese …
For more than six weeks — between December 28 and February 11 — talks were suspended, during which time Fujimori and his military associates sought to wear down and exhaust …
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