CVR public hearings: Abancay. August 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 Abancay in August 2002, where testimony was presented by: relatives of the community members of Checcasa and Sallalli, disappeared and murdered by army troops; relatives of the community members of Cotahuarcay, disappeared, tortured, and murdered by SL and army troops; relatives of residents of the Siusay community, murdered and sexually violated by SL; relatives of residents of the El Progreso district, murdered by SL; relatives of Jesús Merino Acuña, extrajudicially executed by SL; relatives of Evaristo Portillo, disappeared by army troops; relatives of Ubaldino Quinte, murdered by SL; relatives of the police officers at the Chuquibambilla post, murdered and left disabled following an SL raid.