Peru has undergone in recent years a process that largely determined the dynamics of relations between the Armed Forces and political and civil society: the establishment of a Truth and …
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A constant pattern of widespread and systematic human rights violations has been plaguing Peru for more than a decade. Human rights violations committed by security forces occur in the context …
Over the past sixteen years, thousands of Peruvians have suffered systematic and widespread human rights violations at the hands of Peru's security forces. Those responsible have been prosecuted and punished …
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Detention and torture of witness in the Uchuraccay case
In mid-September 1984, a witness in the Uchuraccay case was detained by a group of Marines and taken to the Tambo military barracks. There she was tortured and raped, despite having the guarantees of the Peruvian Episcopate and the Ministry of the Interior due to her status as a witness …
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