Systematic use of forced disappearance by agents of the State
In 1989, the systematic use of forced disappearance by Peruvian State agents intensified as a counter-subversive strategy. This practice covered up arbitrary detentions, torture and extrajudicial executions, affecting 61% of the fatalities caused by the State during the conflict.
In 1989, the systematic use of the practice of forced disappearance by Peruvian State agents intensified as part of their counter-subversive strategy. This practice involved extracting a specific person from his or her context, removing him or her from the public eye and from the legal mechanisms of individual protection, in order to cover up human rights violations such as arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violations that generally ended in extrajudicial executions. The CVR determined that between 1980 and 2000, approximately 61% of the fatalities caused by State agents were caused by this practice. The period 1989-1993 marked a substantial increase in the systematic use of forced disappearance, coinciding with the new counter-subversive strategy that increased its selective nature.