Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación): findings and what happened next

The internal armed conflict in Peru between 1980 and 2000 involving the Shining Path, the MRTA and state forces.

Implementation, as of 28 August 2003Government follow up, including reparations, was not verified from a fetched source.

What the inquiry found

The commission estimated that the most probable number of fatal victims of the violence was 69,280.^1,3
The general conclusions found the PCP Shining Path responsible for 54 percent of the fatal victims reported to the commission and the MRTA for 1.5 percent.³
It found state agents, including the armed forces, police, self defence patrols and paramilitary groups, responsible for 37 percent of deaths and disappearances, with the armed forces accounting for more than 75 percent of that share.²
Three in four victims were peasants whose native language was Quechua.²
The commission described the Shining Path as "a force with a genocidal potential" and called the 1995 amnesty law "a disgrace".²
It found that the most intense violence, and most state violations, took place under democratically elected civilian governments.²

The commission proposed integral reparations for victims, a plan to find the disappeared and presumed hidden graves, and reform of democratic institutions.²

28 August 2003The commission handed its nine volume final report to the government at the Palace of Government.^1,2

Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, Press release 226 (28 August 2003)
International Center for Transitional Justice, Abbreviated Version of the Final Report of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Hatun Willakuy)
Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (html edition by Equipo Nizkor), Conclusiones generales del Informe Final de la CVR (28 August 2003)