Introduction: Peruvian Memory Matters

Abstract

The transitional government of Valentín Paniagua established the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (known by the acronym CVR), after Alberto Fujimori left the country in 2001.1 Its charge was to investigate and make public the truth regarding two decades of political violence in Peru, starting in 1980 when the Shining Path appeared on the public scene and ending with the collapse of Fujimori’s regime.