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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was created by presidential decree in 2001 to investigate, clarify and assign responsibility for human rights violations committed between 1980 and 2000. Here, the TRC learns from victims at a reparations conference in Ayacucho in 2002 what they would like in terms of reparations.
The Truth and Reconciliat... 		With the help of civil society groups, the TRC collected nearly 17,000 testimonies from victims throughout the country. In order to develop a better background knowledge of the violence, the TRC also used the testimonies collected by regional offices along with additional interviews and research to develop detailed histories of the seven regions particularly affected by the violence.
With the help of civil so... 		The TRC, the Public Ministry (Ministerio Público), the Ombudsman Office (Defensoría del Pueblo)and the National Coordinator on Human Rights (Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos) created an expert forensic team made up of forensic anthropologists, archeologists, criminal experts and others to carry out exhumations of mass graves in Chuschi, Totos and Lucanamarca.
The TRC, the Public Minis... 		Observers and family members met at a grave at the Lucanamarca exhumation site. In Lucanamarca, the perpetrators of the human rights abuses were members of Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, a Maoist group that began its insurrection in the rural Sierra region (in the Andean mountain range) of Ayacucho by burning ballot boxes in the town of Chuschi.
Observers and family memb... 		Removing remains from a grave in Lucanamarca. Sendero Luminoso began working in the zone in the 1970s. Many organizers were professors who worked with young people in the area. Some sectors supported Sendero Luminoso at the beginning, but as Sendero's tactics became more violent it lost popular support.
Removing remains from a g... 		The Public Ministry gave permission to exhume a shallow grave located on the grounds of an old military base in Huancasancos. The most intense phase of the war in the province of Huancasancos lasted between the end of 1982 and 1984.
The Public Ministry gave ...

Remains of a victim in Lu...
In its Final Report, the ...
In Ayacucho, survivors pa...
Minnesota Advocates atten...
El Centro de información ...
The Information Center fo...

At the one year anniversa...
A commemoration of the TR...
Individuals involved with...

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