The Struggle for Memory in the Peruvian Post-Conflict Experience

In Peru, we lived through a twenty-year conflict with thousands of victims who suffered systematic violations of Human Rights (forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, torture, collective massacres). The Report of the Truth Commission, whose publication of conclusions and recommendations we recall on this August 28, its fifth anniversary, marked a turning point against the "official history" of Fujimorism and its assessment of twenty years of political violence. The theory of excesses by the State security forces, which sought to be imposed upon us, was disproved by the Truth Commission, which maintained that systematic and widespread human rights violations occurred during certain periods of time and in various geographical areas — as the organizations had maintained from the beginning. Published in September 2008.