107 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
For five years, SL took over the village of Oronqoy and turned it into a "liberated zone," renaming it Puka Llacta. The entire community was held captive because, like others, …
Huanta, an Ayacuchan province, is one of those with the highest number of deaths and disappearances recorded as a result of the political violence that swept the country between 1980 …
Bones and clothing of men, women, and children killed between 1984 and 1991 by terrorists and unscrupulous military and police personnel were recovered from clandestine graves and handed over to …
Eleven years have passed since the presentation of the final report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación. The time elapsed has not dissolved but, on the contrary, has …
More than a hundred Asháninka residents were victims of a systematic massacre in Pangoa, Satipo, carried out by Sendero Luminoso in the early 1990s, according to the combined total of …
According to the CVR report, between 1983 and 1994, the years of greatest violence in the district of Chungui, 1,384 civilians were killed by Sendero Luminoso, ronderos, and security forces. …
For 10 days, La República accompanied a team of archaeologists and forensic experts from the Ministerio Público on their journey through the remote areas of the region known as Oreja …
Ten years have passed since the presentation of the Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), which requires taking stock of the justice process stemming from …
Through an official letter addressed to the President of the Council of Ministers, the Ombudsman requests that he order the corresponding measures to make the construction of the Santuario de …
David Sulmont, current director of the Instituto de Opinión Pública of the PUCP, was head of the Information Systems area of the CVR. From that role he oversaw everything related …
The main finding of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR), ten years ago, was quantitative in nature: the 69,000 fatal victims and the assertion that the main perpetrator …
Families of victims of Sendero Luminoso and the Army jointly receive exhumed remains in Ayacucho, the epicenter of the bloody war between the State and the terrorists in the 1980s. …
Hundreds of bereaved families and victims came to the capital to demand greater attention from the government. They gathered at 'El Ojo que Llora,' at Lima's municipality, and at the …
The population of Huanta, a province in the Ayacucho region, today received with a large mobilization of authorities, public institutions, students, and human rights organizations 92 coffins of victims of …
In March 1991, the mayor, the deputy governor, and two other people in the district of Chuschi were taken to the Pampa Cangallo military base. Seven officers are blamed. The …
By means of a letter dated January 23, 2013, addressed to the President of the Republic, Ollanta Humala Tasso, Aprodeh expresses its displeasure at the excessive and unjustified delay on …
In July 2005, after many years, the State decided to fulfill its commitment to provide reparations to the thousands of civilian, police, and military victims left by the most painful …
The Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación established that on August 14, 1985, an Army patrol belonging to the "Lince" company of Huamanga, under the command …
On July 20, the Supreme Court of Peru issued a highly controversial ruling in a case involving members of the annihilation squad known as the Grupo Colina. According to human …
The Peruvian prosecutor's office reported on Friday that the eight bodies exhumed from a mass grave in Huancavelica show signs that the victims were executed, presumably during the conflict that …
The case of the massacre of Parcco and Pomatambo (Vilcashuamán, Ayacucho), perpetrated by elements of the Army on October 23, 1986, is not only an emblematic example of the crimes …
The streets around the Castro Castro prison, located in the upper part of the district of San Juan de Lurigancho on the outskirts of Lima, are made of dirt and …
On April 3, 1983, a group of Shining Path members entered several hamlets in the high plateau on the way to Lucanamarca and killed 69 people — men, women, and …
In this 1985 photograph, Peruvian Army second lieutenant Telmo Ricardo Hurtado Hurtado is covering his vacant gaze with enormous dark aviator glasses. Above his lips, a bushy mustache spreads like …
Decree D.S. 051 cancels the registration of victims of political violence that we suffered during the years 1980 and 2000. This decree contravenes previous laws, which, combined with the delay …
On March 14, 1991, an Army patrol from the Pampa Cangallo Military Barracks, made up of approximately 25 soldiers, entered the town of Chuschi, in the province of Cangallo, Ayacucho. …
The number of people who disappeared due to the terrorism that ravaged Peru between 1980 and 2000 is close to 16,000 — double the figure calculated by the Comisión de …
Families of victims of political violence demand justice and promised reparation. The families of victims of political violence in Ayacucho went to the area where the common graves were found …
After 19 years and three months, family members identify victims of political violence. According to the findings of the forensic team, the nine disappeared were bound and shot dead by …
They assert that ten thousand soles cannot be the worth of a human life. We have the same rights as those who received 30,000, 35,000, and even 20 million soles …
Authorization is granted for the fencing of La Hoyada, annex to the Los Cabitos barracks, to prevent the destruction of evidence.
The Reparations Program that is to be put into effect has a series of shortcomings that constitute yet another grievance against a segment of the population that has historically been …
In a communication addressed to CMAN, the members of the Reparations Council recommended that the proposed Economic Reparations Program for victims of violence, whose implementation is under discussion, be consulted …
We regret that, rather than convening us to discuss and approve reparations proposals within the body responsible for reparations guidelines and policies — namely the CMAN — the decision must …
A document on the current state of anthropological-forensic investigations in Peru, with a brief introduction to forensic issues for members of the public interested in human rights topics, and a …
By means of a press release dated March 23, 2011, the Consejo de Reparaciones reports that registration of organized groups of internally displaced persons has begun, and that to date …
By means of a press release dated April 1, 2011, the Consejo de Reparaciones reports that in a communication addressed to the CMAN, the members of the Consejo de Reparaciones …
Peru will begin delivering individual economic reparations to victims of political violence (1980-2000), with priority given to the elderly living in the most remote villages. The government already has four …
The massacres of Pomatambo and Parcco during Alán García's time are still unpunished. This is the translation of the secret cable sent by the US Embassy to the State Department …
Among the secret documents sent by the US Embassy in Lima to the State Department in Washington, we find one that summarizes the crossroads in which the people of Ayacucho …
Almost immediately after the period began, budget constraints forced the Consejo de Reparaciones to dispense with nearly all of the Technical Secretariat staff, which interrupted the work of qualifying and …
Despite the obstacles and knots, the denials and the threats, the survivors and family members of the victims of violence call us to continue accompanying them on this path that …
The Peruvian State faces a new lawsuit in an international forum for human rights violations. The feminist organization DEMUS denounced the State for violating the human rights of women who …
The victims of the internal war that bled our country for more than 20 years would surpass 120,000 people, among the dead, disappeared, tortured, raped, and displaced, said Jairo Rivas, …
The victims of the internal war that bled our country for more than 20 years would surpass 120,000 people, among the dead, disappeared, tortured, raped, and displaced, said Jairo Rivas, …
Incredible as it may seem, one of the best and most impactful documentaries about Peru has gone practically unnoticed by the public. ESTADO DE MIEDO, subtitled "The Truth About Terrorism," …
Let us examine what was said by the unjustly overlooked Nobel Prize in Literature winner. At first glance, several inconsistencies emerge: on the one hand he says there were not …
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