Children Used as Soldiers in Peru
Report submitted to the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) at its 138th session by the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos. It addresses the use of children and adolescents in situations of armed conflict, a problem that has a long history in our country, which was rigorously denounced and documented by the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, but which continues to occur and continues to concern us.
Referenced in events
- Kidnapping of 6-year-old girl and indoctrination for 13 years
- Killing of children who resisted conscription
- Forced recruitment of adolescents and youths by the PCP-SL
- Use of child bomber killed in attack
- Teenager seriously injured by explosive he was carrying
- Forced recruitment and murder of child in Puerto Nuevo Ashaninka
- Recruitment and training of 13-year-old boy in Ashaninka community
- Intensified recruitment of youths and children by PCP-SL in Satipo
- Military training for children as young as 7 years old
- Recruitment of 11-year-old girl by MRTA
- Forced recruitment of 14-year-old brother by MRTA
- Forced recruitment of 10 year old child by MRTA
- Separation of children from their families in camps
- Forced recruitment of 24 students in Satipo
- Recruitment of 16-year-old girl who participated in Embassy takeover