Overview

• President Dina Boluarte signed the amnesty on August 14, immediately shielding military, police and allied paramilitaries from prosecution for abuses during the 1980–2000 internal armed conflict.
• UN experts estimate the measure could overturn around 156 convictions and impact more than 600 ongoing cases, reversing years of judicial accountability for massacres, disappearances and sexual violence.
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and United Nations human-rights officials have warned the law breaches Peru’s international obligations and urged authorities not to enforce it.
• Victims’ relatives and demonstrators in Lima denounced the law as a betrayal, shouting slogans such as “Dina Mörderin” during the signing ceremony.
• Boluarte defended the law as restoring dignity to armed-forces members and self-defence groups, building on a 2024 statute-of-limitations law that freed ex-president Alberto Fujimori and pardoned hundreds of officers.