Women's Memories (in the Internal Armed Conflict)

This document aims to collect, highlight, and restore value to women as human beings who acted during the violence experienced by the country. On the other hand, it seeks to serve as an instrument that recalls the grave violations of the human rights of women, their families, and their communities, while also aiming to be a spokesperson for their initiatives, proposals, actions, and achievements in their struggle for peace, truth, justice, and reparation. Its pages recall that women did not allow themselves to be defeated or intimidated by violence and its perpetrators. This is a text based on the voices of women — voices that have been rendered into words to preserve in memory their dreams, hopes, and achievements. In this sense, we narrate how women lived before, during, and after the violence in the departments of Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Apurímac, Junín, Pasco, Cuzco, Huánuco, San Martín, Ucayali, Lima, and Madre de Dios. The violations of their human rights and those of their communities are recounted. This work makes visible the role they played in social organizations and self-defense committees in communities that resisted during displacement processes and also in subversive groups. (Excerpt from the preface).