The Special Commission for Research and Study on Violence and Pacification Alternatives publishes, for the fourth consecutive year, its report on the situations of violence affecting the country, as well …
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5 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
This report represents the continuation of the study of the situation during 1990, with one part corresponding to the work done during the Senate session that concluded its activities in …
In May 1988 the Senate of the Republic appointed a special multiparty commission charged with analyzing the causes of violence in Peru and proposing pacification alternatives. The result of that …
The Special Commission charged with studying the causes of violence and proposing alternatives for national pacification began its activities by issuing a public call to various sectors of society and …
The Armed Forces' claim to have killed 13 terrorists in Ayacucho in October, including an SL leader, is coming under increasing scrutiny. The left-wing press alleges a massacre, reportedly based …
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Timeline Events 11
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Senate approves repeal of pacification decrees
On January 27, 1992, the Senate of the Republic approved by majority a bill repealing twelve legislative decrees on national pacification that had been enacted by the Executive Branch. At the same time, the Senate presented other bills which, with the same pacification objective, had a true democratic character according …
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Senate balance sheet on political violence 1991
The senatorial commission on pacification presents a harsh balance sheet on the social cost of political violence in the country during 1991. This report was presented in the context of intense confrontations between the Executive Branch and the Congress, particularly on issues of national pacification and legislative decrees. The balance …
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Approval of the law on peasant patrols
On November 28, 1991, the Senate approved a law regulating the peasant and urban patrols, defining them as popular, peaceful and democratic organizations. The main purposes established in this law are self-defense and active collaboration with national pacification. This legislation sought to regulate and provide a legal framework for the …
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Second appearance of ministers before the Senate
On November 15, 1991, the Ministers of the Interior and Defense appeared again before the Senate Committee. General Briones Davila denied the existence of the 'Ambulant Operations Plan' and the 'Lima Sheraton Surveillance Post', based on documents from DIRCOTE and the General Staff of the Armed Forces. In view of …
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Subpoena of former ministers to the Senate on Barrios Altos
On November 10, 1991, the Senate Human Rights Commission summoned former Ministers of the Interior and Defense, Generals Juan Briones Davila and Victor Malca Villanueva, to report on the Barrios Altos massacre. The ministers presented three hypotheses about the perpetrators (Shining Path, MRTA or outside organizations) but categorically denied the …
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Appointment of commission of inquiry into paramilitary groups
On September 4, 1990, the Senate of the Republic of Peru appointed an investigative commission in response to the denunciations presented by Congressman Fernando Olivera Vega two days earlier. Olivera Vega had presented recordings and transcriptions of conversations between politicians that had been intercepted by elements of the National Intelligence …
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Bernales presents report on subversion in Senate
Senator Enrique Bernales Ballesteros, on behalf of the Special Commission on Pacification, which he chairs, presented a detailed report to the Senate on the problem of subversion in Peru. The report analyzes the causes of the subversive phenomenon from the social, political and economic angles. Bernales presents recommendations to put …
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Senate Pacification Commission meeting on subversive situation in companies
Meeting convened by the Pacification Commission of the Senate of the Republic where Luis Rodríguez-Mariátegui, representative of CONFIEP, spoke about the situation of subversion in the enterprises. He used the case of COPE as an illustrative example, describing how the factory takeover had been previously announced at a plenary meeting …
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Senate approves decrees on bank nationalization
On February 2, 1988, in the absence of the full opposition, the Senate approved to authorize the Executive to issue the necessary legislative decrees to interpret the two articles of the bank nationalization law, which the Executive sent to Parliament for interpretation. This approval came at the end of an …
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Ratification of Senate appointments
The Senate of the Republic of Peru ratified the appointment of Luz Áurea Sáenz as Comptroller General of the Republic. Likewise, in the same session, the appointment of Pedro Coronado Labó as president of the board of directors of the Central Reserve Bank (BCR) was ratified. These ratifications took place …
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Pércovich's presentation on the Oropesa case
Interior Minister Luis Pércovich Roca spoke in the Senate about the Oropesa case. This case referred to the detention of Jesús Oropesa Chonta, who had been arrested on July 27, 1984 by members of the Civil Guard on an alleged terrorism complaint in Puquio, Ayacucho. The disappearance of the peasant …