In December 2000 the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) was established to investigate human rights abuses--in particular murders and kidnappings, forced disappearances, torture, and abuses to indigenous communities, mostly Quechua-speaking Indians-- by the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru rebel groups, as well as abuses by the military under Presidents Fernando Belaunde(1980-1985), Alan Garcia (1985-1990) and Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000). The CVR estimated that the total number of victims of such abuses over the past two decades was 69, 280, and attributed them both to the government and rebel groups. The CVR held public hearings and broadcast them nationally. They also recommended reforms, prosecutions, and reparations; currently a reparations program is underway and some prosecutions, notably of former President Alberto Fujimori, are in process.
The presidential decree establishing the CVR maintained that the archive--databases, videotapes, audiotapes, photographs, and paper files-- should be given to the Ombudsman's Office after the commission completed its work. The Ombudsman's Office created a Center of Information for the Collective Memory of Human Rights and housed the archive of the CVR there, as well as creating a documentation center based on the CVR's material. Most of the material is available for public use.