The Suspicious Truth. Opinion Column

Unlike what happened in Argentina with the commission chaired by Ernesto Sábato and its widely recognized report on violence and the disappeared during the military dictatorship, Nunca más, which had an enormous international impact, the work of the Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación in Peru — documenting human rights abuses and crimes against humanity perpetrated since Sendero Luminoso launched its armed struggle in 1980 — has barely resonated abroad, and in Peru has generated a controversy in which attacks and discrediting of the Commission, which was chaired by a distinguished philosopher and rector of the Pontificia Universidad Católica, Salomón Lerner Febres, have proliferated. Published on September 25, 2003.