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Andean Group - November 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)
PERU: Which human rights are back on the agenda?
Human Rights in Peru provoke mixed reactions. The difference of opinion, nationally, can be seen within President Ollanta Humala’s cabinet and these differences are currently being used by the mainstream Humala-sceptic press to push for splits within the cabinet. Peru has had a historical tendency to ignore human rights when it has been politically expedient to do so and military courts have been used in the past as an instrument of impunity. The recent leak of the Inter-American Court for Human Rights’ (CorteIDH) recommendations relating to the 1996-1997 Japanese Embassy hostage crisis, known as the Chavín de Huantar Operation, has brought into question the authority of a military court’s ruling. In 2002 the military court had cleared some 142 military commandos of various charges, including the extra-judicial killing of the hostage takers, members of the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA). How the government engages with this and other cases will set the tone for the government’s policy on human rights and the expectations of those seeking remedy for historical abuses.
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