CVR public hearings: Lima. June 2002

The public hearings of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) were solemn, open sessions in which the commissioners received testimony from victims and witnesses of the acts of violence experienced during the Peruvian internal armed conflict 1980–2000. The opportunity to give testimony before the country is a public act of dignity and healing for the victims. This video shows the public hearings held in the city of Lima in June 2002, where testimony was presented by: relatives of Pascuala Rosado, murdered by SL; relatives of Pedro Huillca Tecse, murdered by a paramilitary squad; relatives of María Elena Moyano, murdered by SL; relatives of Rodrigo Franco Montes, killed by unknown perpetrators; police sub-officer Ana Lira Chupingagua, attacked by SL members; relatives of residents of the farming community of Andajes, murdered by SL; Alfonso Rodas, survivor of the Barrios Altos massacre carried out by the Grupo Colina; testimony of Exaltación Vargas, tortured and accused of terrorism by National Police officers; relatives of Javier Roca Casas, Keneth Anzualdo Castro, and Abel Malpartida Paez, detained and disappeared by Navy personnel.