To Our Community, One Morning They Entered... Stories of Political Violence in Communities of Peru
The stories presented below speak to the power of memory and the importance that community memory holds for a transitional justice process. They challenge us to understand that transitional justice is not only something that concerns state institutions, processes that take place in capital cities, or major judicial proceedings in emblematic cases. It is also a duty of justice to recognize what happened at the heart of the conflicts: in the rural communities of the Sierra and the Amazonia of Peru, as well as in the rural communities in the valleys of Nepal or in the communities of eastern Timor-Leste. (Excerpt from the preface).