The first period of the guerrillas, between 1961 and 1963, brought together the experiences of the Revolutionary Left Front (FIR) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), whose objective was to support the peasant mobilization of Chaupimayo, in the valleys of La Convención and Lares de Cuzco, led by the peasant …
Norma Mansilla Parra was kidnapped at the age of 6 by the Shining Path. At the age of 12 she began armed training. At 15 she was baptized as 'Nelida'. At 19 she was freed by the police. Her testimony talks about her 13 years under the Shining Path, showing …
Capture of Edmundo Cox Beuzeville, member of the Shining Path PCP, who allegedly suffered torture at the hands of the police after his capture. The case generated protests from high-level representatives of the Catholic Church. Cox was the nephew of a respected bishop who denounced the facts and was strongly …
On October 12, 1981, the Peruvian government decreed a state of emergency in five of the seven provinces of the department of Ayacucho: Huamanga, Huanta, La Mar, Cangallo and Victor Fajardo. This measure was established in response to the increase in PCP-Sendero Luminoso actions, particularly after the attack on the …
In February 1982, in the locality of Chanta, district of Umaca, four community authorities were detained and disappeared by police officers. This occurred in the context of police repression that resulted in the detention of countless peasants accused of belonging to the PCP-SL. The police arrests were accompanied by looting …
In July 1982, the deputy mayor of Santa Rosa died while in police custody. This event occurred in the context of the onset of violence in the Apurimac River Valley, during the period of intensification of PCP-Sendero Luminoso actions and the repressive response of the forces of law and order. …
Teófilo Pacheco Quispe, a member of the MRTA (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru), died on August 9, 1982 in a confrontation with the police in the district of Surquillo, Lima. This event occurred in the context of a growing wave of political violence in the country, during the month in which …
On August 18, the police post of Umachiri, near Ayaviri, was attacked. After this attack the police forced their way into the premises of the Prelature's Social Works, taking the four employees into custody; they also entered the IER. The capitular vicar Francisco d'Alteroche protested and was treated as if …
In the district of Andarapa, the police started the first organizations of Rondas Campesinas to confront the growing increase in terrorism. This process began early in 1983, motivating peasant communities to form their self-defense committees. The formation of these patrols was a response to the intensification of confrontations between the …
In mid-January 1983, after the massacre of 40 community members in the Pallqas temple at the hands of subversives, a mixed base composed of Sinchis, police and Republican Guard was set up in the community of Pallqas. In response to the Shining Path violence and after the capture of several …
On May 5, 1983, there was a confrontation between Shining Path elements and combined forces (Army and Police) in the town of Paras, which resulted in 6 victims among the security forces and 10 among the subversives. On the same date, the subversives murdered six community members in the town …
In the early morning of May 21, 1983, an unspecified number of hikers, men and women, from the "lower part" (Hualla, Tiquihua, Canaria, etc.), led by "comrade Omar", prepared an attack against Sacsamarca. When the hikers were in the Pallqa annex, one of the community members they had arrested managed …
In the early morning of May 21, 1983, an unspecified number of hikers, men and women, from the "lower part" (Hualla, Tiquihua, Canaria, etc.), led by "comrade Omar", prepared an attack against Sacsamarca. When the hikers were in the Pallqa annex, one of the community members they had arrested managed …
The Spanish priest Vicente Hondarza, pastor of the Matriz Church of Chancay, was murdered. The corpse was delivered by the police to the hospital of Chancay at 8 o'clock at night. Although the authorities maintained the version of an accident, his clothes were clean, but the body presented numerous scoriations, …
In the early morning of July 2, 1983, combined Army and Police forces broke into the home of Arquímedes Ascarza Mendoza in the Ciudad Libertad de las Américas Human Settlement. They violently detained him and took him to Los Cabitos Barracks in a military truck. Although a non-commissioned officer delivered …
In September 1983, police and Navy troops extrajudicially executed 13 community members from San Pedro de Pampay, in the district of Luricocha, province of Huanta. This event occurred in the context of the entry of the Armed Forces into the region in January 1983 and the installation of the political-military …
In December 1983, an armed confrontation took place between elements of the Shining Path and a combined patrol of the Armed Forces and the Police in Acobamba, Huancavelica. The confrontation resulted in several deaths on both sides. This event occurred in a context of intensifying violence in the area, where …
In 1984, 6 corpses were found in the place called Ñeque, Tambillos district, Huamanga province. Among them, the union leader Florentino Mendoza was recognized. The bodies were removed by order of the Provincial Prosecutor with the participation of the Police. Mayor Leonor Zamora provided the car of the Municipality for …
In 1984, the bodies of three 15-year-old girls were found in the place called Infiernillo, Carmen Alto district in Huamanga. The victims had been executed with firearms. The bodies were removed by order of the Provincial Prosecutor with the participation of the Police, and Mayor Leonor Zamora provided the car …
On January 11, 1984, there was a massive university demonstration that ended in violent confrontations between university students and the police. The mobilization was caused by the cuts in student rights brought about by the new Law of Bases of the Peruvian University. As a result of the clashes, one …
Nine guerrillas were captured by the police in the province of Paucartambo, department of Cuzco, confiscating rifles, a large quantity of ammunition and uniforms. For the MRTA it was a very hard blow as a consequence of the liberalism, superficiality and disorder with which its militants worked. They had been …
Between 1985 and 1986, an armed Shining Path column executed four people in Pacllón, Bolognesi province. The victims were Máximo Ibarra Paucar (director of the Educational Center), Judge Abelardo Duran Carrera, teacher Zósimo Mendoza Huaranga and farmer Joel Mendoza Huaranga. All of them were accused by the PCP-SL of having …
In 1985, in the framework of intelligence operations that the police carried out in the northern part of Lima, specifically in the locality of Rajanya, the police forces killed a Shining Path cadre known as "Puli". This fact shows that the police also had intelligence work in the area to …
A Shining Path detachment took the town of Lagunas, near Yurimaguas, attacking the police post and killing two policemen and an official of the Agrarian Bank. The group was led by the doctor Luis Castillo Tapia, head of the Lagunas hospital. In their retreat, the hikers clashed near the small …
During her detention in 1986, a declarant was subjected to torture in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho. The events occurred in the context of detentions carried out by law enforcement forces during the internal armed conflict. The affiant witnessed that during the days she was detained, the police …
A female witness was detained in May 1986 by the police. The text does not provide additional details about the specific circumstances of the detention, the exact place where it occurred, or information about what happened after the detention. This mention appears in the context of a broader report on …
On July 17, 1987, the combined forces of the police, Army and Air Force carried out an impressive operation to recapture the town of Tocache, which had been taken by the Shining Path PCP. Law enforcement arrived in helicopters in a coordinated operation. This action came after the PCP-SL had …
Lucero Cumpa Miranda, responsible for metropolitan work and member of the MRTA Central Committee, was captured. The capture of Cumpa and other militants dealt a serious blow to the MRTA and practically dismantled its organization in many areas of Lima.
On January 5, 1988, at 6:00 a.m., Mr. Sotomayor, Sub Prefect of the Province of Sanchez Carrion, was assassinated in Huamachuco. This assassination occurred in a context of increasing violence in the region, where both the PCP-SL and the police forces committed violent acts against authorities and civilians. Many locals …
One affiant was detained by the police at her home in the district of Chorrillos in 1989. This case is one of the documented testimonies of arbitrary detentions that occurred in Lima during the internal armed conflict. The detention took place at the victim's home in this Lima district.
Eight peasants and one student were killed while marching to celebrate the end of a strike over refuge prices for corn and rice. The police shot at the demonstrators believing that Sendero Luminoso was involved, but it was not true. The wounded took refuge in the Vicariate as they feared …
The communal peasant patrol captured a pseudo-terrorist band of cattle rustlers in Colquemarca, province of Chumbivilcas. This event took place in the context of the fight against cattle rustling in the high provinces of Cuzco, where the PCP-SL had gained initial support by fighting the abigeos. However, the communities began …
On March 27, 1989, the PCP-SL attacked the police station in Uchiza, province of Mariscal Caceres. This attack marked a turning point with respect to the intervention of the Police and the Armed Forces in their fight against subversion in the coca-growing zone. The event demonstrated the level of territorial …
On April 19, 1989, combined Army and police forces carried out a simultaneous raid on the universities of San Marcos and La Cantuta in Lima. More than 500 students were arrested during the operation. This operation was part of the counter-subversive strategy of the APRA government in a context of …
Law 25031, published on June 2, 1989, modified several articles of Law 24700, which established procedural norms for the police investigation, instruction and trial of crimes committed for terrorist purposes. This law developed a new anti-terrorist legislative scheme characterized by a rupture of the constitutional model of crime investigation by …
The community of Collana in Livitaca, province of Chumbivilcas, agreed in a general assembly to form teams and identify the cattle rustlers in order to hand them over to the police. This communal decision is evidence of the peasant organization to confront the problem of cattle rustling that was affecting …
The bodies of law graduate Marcelino Valencia Alvaro, legal advisor of the Agrarian League, and student Zacarías Pasca were found on the 29th in Santo Tomás, Chumbivilcas. Days before they had been detained by the police. This case is evidence of the practice of forced disappearance and extrajudicial execution.
In June 1990, the Army and the police entered the UNCP and arrested more than a hundred students suspected of being subversives. In the following months they carried out similar operations until 1991 when the Army took control of the university. This process took place in the context of the …
In the Embassy's first report to the Secretary of State on the human rights situation in Peru, sent on March 26, it was reported that the three major actors in the conflict, the terrorists, the Army and the Police are guilty of significant human rights violations, which increased in 1990, …
Manuel Meneses Sotacuro and Felix Inga, young men from the Peruvian Evangelical Church, were arrested and later disappeared by the police in Huancayo. CONEP together with Ceapaz and the Archbishopric of Huancayo denounced the incident nationally and internationally. The young people were never found.
The Judge of the 14th Preliminary Examining Court of Lima, despite admitting that Castillo Paez had been arrested by members of the Police, issued a resolution ordering the dismissal of the investigation with respect to the defendants in relation to the crime of abuse of authority, for not having been …
On June 16, 1993, the police captured several people from the PCP-SL, among them Félix García Quispe (31) alias 'Pedro', who was seized subversive documentation including the tactical operational plan (POT) of the attack against Colonel Manuel Tumba Ortega, and Cesar Gerardo Salinas Galarza (25) alias 'Jeremias', who confessed to …
Raúl Hiraoka Torres, son of the owner of the Hiraoka chain of stores, was kidnapped around 8:30 p.m. when he was driving a pickup truck in the Córpac neighborhood, San Isidro. His vehicle was hit by a pickup truck, and people got out and shot him with short-range weapons. The …
On August 21, 1993, police captured several alleged subversives of the PCP-SL: Iris Quiñonez Colchado alias 'Bertha' (Zonal Sur Military Command), Aldrin Meliton Cardenas alias 'Jacinto', Sonia Huerta Alcala alias 'Elsa', German Mosquera Auccacusi alias 'Fernando', Emilio Robles Alcedo, Pedro Armas Valdivia alias 'Spencer', and Juan Gutierrez Perez alias 'Enrique' …
In 1996, as part of the decline of PCP-SL subversive activity in the region, there was a significant reduction in the number of anti-subversive bases in the department of La Libertad. The number of bases was reduced from 32 in 1994 to 17 bases in 1996. This reduction was a …
On July 7, 1997, the police captured Carlos Enrique Salinas Galarza, alias "José", at his home. When he gave his police statement, he admitted that he had belonged to the PCP-SL since the end of 1991 and that he belonged to the Southern Zonal Committee. He admitted his participation in …
On July 7, 1997, the Police captured Oscar Ricardo Pomiano Ramos, whose real identity was Jose Amalfi Vizcardo Cerruto alias 'Pedro' or 'Augusto', an important leader of the PCP-SL. In his statement he admitted having been Secretary or Political Commander of the Southern Zonal Committee between 1991 and 1993, and …
On May 30, 1998, members of DINCOTE captured Víctor Flores Mendoza, alias "Jhony". The police determined that he participated in the assassination of PNP Colonel Manuel Tumba Ortega as a support element, in charge of transporting the weapons used by the attackers. His pseudonym appears in the tactical operational plan …
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