The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) (in Spanish: Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR)) was established in June 2001 to examine atrocities commited in the 1980s and 1990s, when Peru was plagued by the worst political violence in the history of the republic. Its work was formally concluded in August 2003, when presented its final report to President Alejandro Toledo.
The Commission focussed on massacres, forced disappearances, human rights violations, terrorist attacks, and violence against women, committed by both the rebel groups Shining Path and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement as well as the Peruvian Armed Forces. Its work encompassed holding public meetings, collecting testimonies, and making forensic investigations. It also made recommendations for reparations and institutional reforms. Its final tally of victims for the period was 69,280.
In the ceremony marking the end of the Commission's work, its chairman, Salomón Lerner, said:
- The report we hand in contains a double outrage: that of massive murder, disappearance and torture; and that of indolence, incompetence and indifference of those who could have stopped this humanitarian catastrophe but didn't.
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