So Close to Death. Report on a Serious Human Rights Violation in Peru

The book is divided into five chapters. The first, titled: "Human Drama in 'Alto Yurinaki'," details the political and social context of the detention, torture, and subsequent release of innocent peasants, settlers, indigenous people, and adolescents. The second chapter, titled: "The 'story' they tried to turn into history. Not all that glitters is gold," recounts the machinations of the Peruvian government and the armed forces to determine the unjust fate of innocent peasants, along with the journalistic treatment of the case and the arbitrary dissemination of "official information": first they were guilty, then innocent. The following chapter, titled: "Who can explain the death of Fortunato Chipana?," narrates how the army removed him through a window of his house to carry out his detention. He was then executed and it was made to appear that his death was the result of a fierce confrontation with the MRTA. He left behind a widow, two children, and his unquestionable innocence. Chapter four gathers the opinions and declarations of Francisco Soberón Garrido, director of APRODEH, and Nino Alarcón Torres, lawyer at the same institution, as well as the participation of Sofía Macher, executive secretary of the national human rights coordinating body. The final chapter reviews testimonies of family members and residents affected by the violence.