Visit of the UN Working Commission on Involuntary Enforced Disappearances
On July 16, 1985, the Working Commission on Involuntary Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights arrived in Lima, in a context of more than a thousand disappearances reported in emergency zones.
On July 16, 1985, the Working Commission on Involuntary Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights arrived in Lima. This visit took place in a context where Amnesty International had distributed a communiqué in January of that year stating that more than a thousand people had disappeared in the last two years in the declared emergency zone in Peru. The Amnesty International report added that hundreds of others were killed in detention, often after being tortured, and held the PCP-SL responsible for the murder and torture of hundreds of people. The UN Commission's visit represented a moment of international scrutiny of the human rights situation in the country during the internal armed conflict.