Ombudsman's Report No. 55: The Enforced Disappearance of Persons in Peru (1980–1996)

The period of violence from the beginning of the 1980s left a high toll of victims still not precisely determined, resulting from the actions of both subversive and terrorist groups and State agents as a consequence of the policy adopted to combat them. Introduction I. Background of the Ombudsman's actions II. Enforced disappearance of persons: context and reality III. Analysis of complaints processed by the public ministry for alleged enforced disappearance of persons and other human rights violations between 1983 and 1996 IV. Analysis of the public ministry's actions regarding complaints about enforced disappearance of persons and other human rights violations between 1983 and 1996 V. The consequences of enforced disappearance VI. Conclusions and recommendations