New lights. The validity of the post-conflict memory: the peruvian case of forced sterilization (1996-2000)

Abstract

Forced sterilization was a common practice in the 1990s, especially in the framework of the Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program, which was developed in the last five years of the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000) and of the 20th century. However, despite the serious violations of fundamental rights, this practice was not covered within the investigations of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2003). From the aesthetic and anthropological-political point of
view, this article analyzes recently published images, videos, testimonies and texts, which constitute new evidence and raise new perspectives on the role that the Peruvian Armed Forces played in the eugenics procedures of the major state demographic control program of the Americas.