Places to Remember

Abstract

In the final report, the CVR prescribed the establishment of memory sites to commemorate the victims and to foster remembrance (CVR IX, pp. 166–7). According to the CVR, these sites should be created as officially recognized spaces in the capital of the country and in the capitals of the different regions affected by the violence. The commissioners recommended the inscription of a commemorative plaque in the Plaza de Armas in Lima and other plaques in the buildings that house the different branches of government: Palacio de Gobierno, Palacio Legislativo, and Palacio de Justicia. They also recommended the construction of a monument in Lima and other monuments in regional capitals so that future generations will learn about this national tragedy (p. 167). They proposed that the national museum, “El Museo de la Nación,” offer a permanent space for the Yuyanapaq exhibit, which was at that time being shown at Casa Riva Agüero in Chorrillos. Memory sites are presented by the report as a necessary form of symbolic reparation.