Human Rights in Times of Impunity
Over the past sixteen years, thousands of Peruvians have suffered systematic and widespread human rights violations at the hands of Peru's security forces. Those responsible have been prosecuted and punished in only a small number of cases. Impunity for the commission of human rights violations has characterized the policy of four successive administrations in Peru. This state of affairs changed in June 1995 with the enactment of the amnesty law, which grants a pardon to all members of the security forces and civilian authorities who participated in human rights violations between May 1980 and mid-June 1995.
Referenced in events
- Detention and torture of witness in the Uchuraccay case
- Approval of amnesty laws by the Democratic Constituent Congress
- Approval of amnesty laws
- Promulgation of Amnesty Law 26479
- General Amnesty Law for military personnel
- Approval of General Amnesty Law 26479 by Congress
- Approval of General Amnesty Law
- Approval of unconstitutional amnesty laws
- Promulgation of Amnesty Law 26479
- Promulgation of Law 26492 against diffuse control
- Approval of the Amnesty Interpretative Law 26492