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Human Rights in Peru, II
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Latin American Ephemera [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Latin American Ephemera. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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This collection contains pamphlets, articles, reports, flyers, posters, and other miscellaneous items addressing a variety of human rights issues in Peru, such as political violence, torture, political prisoners, displaced populations, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The material is produced by a range of sources, including national and international non-governmental organizations, state entities, religious organizations, and civic coalitions. The material was produced with a wide array of aims, including popular education, solidarity, political activism, and raising awareness.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Peru suffered a period of intense violence during which the war launched by the Maoist guerilla organization Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) was met with a violent response from state counter-insurgency forces. The armed conflict, which began in highland Ayacucho and spread throughout the nation, produced an estimated death toll of sixty thousand people, primarily peasants caught in the middle of the clash.
Following the collapse of President Alberto Fujimori's corrupt regime and the flight of head intelligence officer Vladimiro Montesinos in 2000, many institutions within Peruvian society heightened their demands that the state take responsibility for the national human rights record and make necessary reparations. This pressure led to the creation in 2001 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a state organism, which devoted nineteen months to investigating the violence that took place between 1980 and 2000. Information regarding the Commission's findings has been made available through public audiences, bulletins, and conferences. A final report was presented to the Peruvian government and to the general public on August 28, 2003.
It is worthwhile to note that while most Truth and Reconciliation Commission publications come from the main office in Lima, many were produced by regional offices of the Commission in other parts of the country.
MICROFILM 11941
MICROFILM 7788 (Master printing copy. Available for reproduction only.)
This collection was processed by Leigh Campoamor in 2003. Finding aid written by Leigh Campoamor in 2003.
Organization
Subject
- Disappeared persons -- Peru
- Human rights -- Peru
- Migration, Internal -- Peru
- Political crimes and offenses -- Peru
- Political prisoners -- Peru
- Political violence -- Peru
- Refugees -- Peru
- State-sponsored terrorism -- Peru
- Terrorism -- Peru
- Violence -- Peru
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- Latin American Ephemera
- Finding Aid Author
- Leigh Campoamor
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Access Restrictions
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Oversize JC599.P4 H852 1978q
The Latin American ephemera collections are open for research use.
Originals are stored offsite at the ReCAP facility. Microfilm surrogates can be consulted in Microforms Service, Firestone Library (http://firestone.princeton.edu/microforms/).
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Collection Inventory
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The material is arranged into three sections. Series 1: Publications arranged by organization is divided into thirty-five files, each representing one organization, with the exception of File 22: Coordinadora Nacional de Desplazados y Comunidades en Reconstrucción del Perú (CONDECOREP) and Mesa Nacional sobre Desplazamiento y Afectados por Violencia Política (MENADES), which contains material produced by two different organizations that generally work in conjunction with one another. The material in files 1 through 35 is ordered chronologically according to year of publication.
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Series 2: Various organizations consists of four files (files 36 through 39). Files 36, 37, and 38 are divided by subject area, and each contains material from various organizations. Material in these files is arranged alphabetically by publishing organization; within each publishing organization, the items are ordered chronologically by year of publication. File 40: Various consists of material from sources that were difficult to categorize. This file is also ordered chronologically according to year of publication.
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Series 3: Truth and Reconciliation Commission is divided into two files, one of material produced by the commission, and the other of material produced by other institutions about the Commission. In File 41: Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, publications by, all items are arranged chronologically by year of publication. In File 42: Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, publications about, items are arranged alphabetically by publishing organization; within each publishing organization, the items are ordered chronologically by year of publication. At the end of File 42 is a group of documents that were difficult to categorize, labeled "Various."
In the case of undated documents, either the symbol "s.d." or brackets are used to indicate the approximate year of publication. Undated items are either placed with other undated material at the beginning of the publishing institution's section, or among other material whose dates of publication are approximately the same.
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