Celia Ramos Durand was one of thousands of Peruvian women forcibly sterilised in the late 1990s under the notorious National Reproductive Health and Family Planning Programme (PNSRPF) implemented by the regime of then-president Alberto Fujimori.
Three weeks later, Ramos, a 34-year-old mother of three young children, was dead.
Nearly 30 years later, the Peruvian state is finally being tried for her death, returning the spotlight to a programme that saw almost 300,000 Peruvians sterilised – the vast majority of them women from poor, rural backgrounds who spoke Quechua, an Indigenous language.
