The Human Rights Watch is urging Peruvian politicians to take their role seriously in promoting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission is pressured by influential politicians and various other elites to tame its findings to reflect positively on the military and its leadership. Human Rights Watch stresses the importance of the commission for justice and progress of Peru, which was roiled by decades-long civil war between a Maoist insurgency (the Shining Path) with a penchant for massacring indigenous communities, and an oppressive military with identical tendencies.
