Peru Defense Minister to put together photo exhibit to honor memory of fallen soldiers during civil war

Just over a week after Peru’s government came under fire for rejecting a $2 million donation to build a memorial museum, Defense Minister Ántero Flores Aráoz said that the Armed Forces will put together a photo exhibit to honor the memory of soldiers who died during Peru’s bloody 1980-2000 internal war. I got the idea for this [...]

Peru’s APRODEH awarded Letelier-Moffitt prize by the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington

Aprodeh, one of Peru’s most reputable human rights organizations, and its founding director Francisco Soberon, have been awarded the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for their campaign against the impunity of human rights crimes committed during Peru’s 20-year internal war, reported the Institute for Policy Studies, IPS. “APRODEH has been the driving force behind the current [...]