Democracy, Militarization and Human Rights in Peru

This text summarizes a vital commitment and a practical experience, intimately linked to the drama that increasingly envelops the daily life of the most humble Peruvians. It is a polemical and accusatory material, the fruit of several years of work in the area of human rights defense. These are then lines of accusation: an accusation against those who hold political and economic power; a denunciation of the unjust prevailing order; an unmasking of the true rules of the game that are being imposed on Peru to preserve the privileges of the few and deny the rights of those who constitute the majority. The materials that follow constitute a body of work that not only seeks to denounce facts but to show their causes, and with this it attempts to identify the areas in which action must be taken to transform the reality it describes. The text synthesizes thousands of denunciations, cases, investigations, and materials received over several years of parliamentary action: things we have heard or seen in an intense involvement in the Human Rights Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and in relationship with those who have taken on the difficult task of overseeing the observance of human rights in a country suffering a dirty war. (Excerpt from the introduction).