Establishment of Human Rights Office of the Vicariate of Pucallpa
In 1988, the Catholic Church established the Vicariate's Human Rights Office in Pucallpa to attend to complaints of human rights violations and provide legal and psycho-affective support to victims of political violence. The office received complaints of disappearances, abuses and murders perpetrated by both armed groups and the armed forces.
Faced with the violence that broke out in the department of Ucayali, the Catholic Church, through the Vicariate of Pucallpa, established in 1988 the Vicariate's Human Rights Office based in Pucallpa. This Office had two priority areas of attention: the area of complaints of human rights violations, with legal advice for victims of violence, and the training area whose objective was to develop programs of affective-rational accompaniment in order to promote creativity and generate alternative responses to pacification and psycho-affective treatment for victims of political violence. The affected population traveled from their villages to Pucallpa to denounce disappearances, abuses or murders perpetrated by armed groups or the armed forces. Based on these reports, the lawyers of the Human Rights Office investigated the facts and even, when the perpetrator was the Army or the Navy, they were able to have access to direct information from the military bases.