US EditionPeru's President Rejects Court Order on Police Amnesty
PERU, JUL 30 – The bill could erase 156 convictions and over 600 investigations into human rights abuses by security forces during Peru's 1985-2000 conflict, raising justice concerns.
- Peruvian Congress approved an amnesty bill this month granting immunity to military and police accused of crimes during the 1980s conflict against rebel groups.
- The bill follows decades of violence from 1980 to 1995, when state forces fought Shining Path and Tupac Amaru rebels, resulting in about 70,000 deaths and over 4,000 clandestine graves.
- The legislation awaits President Dina Boluarte's decision amid strong opposition from UN experts, human rights groups, and victims' families who say it violates Peru's legal duties and undermines justice.
- UN experts warn the law could erase 156 final convictions and over 600 ongoing cases, while the Inter-American Court urged suspension, but Boluarte declared she will protect security forces from prosecution.
- The bill risks reopening wounds for survivors like Ochoa, whose village Accomarca suffered a 1985 massacre killing 62 civilians, highlighting ongoing tensions between memory, justice, and state security interests.
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Peru's president rejects court order on police amnesty
Peru's president on Thursday dismissed an international court order to suspend a law granting amnesty to police, military and state perpetrators of rights violations during a bloody campaign against leftist guerrillas from 1980 to 2000.
Peru's President Rejects Court Order On Police Amnesty
Peru's president on Thursday dismissed an international court order to suspend a law granting amnesty to police, military and state perpetrators of rights violations during a bloody campaign against leftist guerrillas from 1980 to 2000.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered that the Amnesty Law passed by the Peruvian Congress, which provides impunity for members of the Armed Forces, the National Police and the Self-Defense Committees for crimes committed during the internal armed conflict, be stopped because of the risk of impunity for serious human rights violations in the country.
President Dina Boluarte has declared that Peru will not allow the intervention of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), calling the country "free and independent with sovereign autonomy" and ensuring that it is "nobody's colony." These statements arise after the Inter-American Court requested the suspension of the enactment of an amnesty law aimed at members of the police, armed forces and rounding committees.
The president of the Republic, Dina Boluarte, said on Thursday that Peru will not allow the “intervention” of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), which requested to stop the process of the controversial amnesty law in favor of members of the Armed Forces, National Police and self-defense committees prosecuted for crimes committed during the fight against terrorism before the year 2000. “Peru is free, independent, with sovereign aut…
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