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Quipu: Calls for Justice
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Quipu: Calls for Justice

21 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

In the 1990s, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori's government ran a mass sterilization program aimed at indigenous women and men in the country's rural highlands, framed publicly as family planning. This short film gathers testimony from survivors, mostly Quechua-speaking women, who describe being pressured, misled, or operated on without real consent at rural health posts. Their accounts run alongside archival footage from the Fujimori era and material from the Quipu Project, which used a telephone hotline to record thousands of survivor statements when many of the women had no other way to be heard. The film follows their decades-long push for legal recognition and reparations, tracking the case through Peru's courts and the slow, often stalled process of official acknowledgment. It stays close to individual voices rather than statistics, letting the women describe what happened to their bodies and their families in their own words. The result is a compact record of a state program most of Peru's public conversation has still not fully reckoned with.