Armed Forces, Truth Commission, and Transitional Justice in Peru
Peru has undergone in recent years a process that largely determined the dynamics of relations between the Armed Forces and political and civil society: the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the judicialization of human rights violations committed during the internal armed conflict, in which the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso and state security forces were the main protagonists (1980-2000). This process generated angry reactions from the Armed Forces, through a set of discourses and strategies aimed at limiting its scope, by means of repeated requests to political authorities for measures of political and legal backing in order to carry out their functions.