The San Pedro massacre occurred in 1963 in the context of land disputes between communities and haciendas in the province of Chincheros (then part of Andahuaylas). The villagers of Callapayoc, in Ongoy, mobilized in dispute over the San Pedro hacienda. This peasant mobilization caused the death of at least 17 …
In June 1969, the Military Government issued decree 006, which cut the coverage of free education. This measure generated an important social mobilization of rejection in which the presence of the Association of Small Landowners and organizations linked to the Red Flag party stood out. In Ayacucho the struggle was …
The economic measures recently taken by the government lead to a national strike on May 23 and 24. The main governmental measures in response to the unrest were the suspension of constitutional guarantees and the declaration of a state of emergency throughout the country. Several political and union leaders (Ricardo …
Edith Lagos Sáez, a former law student at San Martín de Porres University, was arrested in Ayacucho and was accused of being one of the 'four most important leaders of the Shining Path'. Guzman later denied this characterization in an interview with the CVR, pointing out that the press had …
In 1981, the Forces of Order installed themselves in the town of Oronqoy together with the ronderos of Mollebamba for several months. This installation occurred in the context of the beginning of subversive activities of the PCP-SL in the area, where subversive teachers had begun indoctrinating students in the Oronqoy …
In 1981, community member Emiterio Huamán was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Oronqoy. This assassination had immediate consequences on the dynamics of the conflict in the area. Previously, the Forces of Order and the Mollebamba ronderos had been installed in Oronqoy for several months, but later …
In the context of military incursions in emergency zones, rapes occurred in the Pampa Coris population center. The women victims were perceived as suspected of being Shining Path members because they were in emergency zones. These rapes occurred during military operations where community members were considered suspects. The case is …
In 1983, a public prosecutor's accusation was brought against the authorities and former university authorities of the UNSCH. As a result, a group of personalities were arrested, among them the former rector Enrique Moya. This occurred in the midst of a climate of uncertainty and pressure from the governmental spheres.
In 1984, in the district of Sivia, province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho, a woman was the victim of rape by State agents. The victim became pregnant as a result of the rape. This case is part of a systematic pattern of sexual violence perpetrated by the forces of law …
In the first half of 1984, there were mass killings of Lucmahuayco villagers by law enforcement and ronderos. The town, located on the right bank of the Apurimac a few kilometers upriver from Quillabamba, was razed to the ground because, according to the Inkawasi ronderos, it was "a Shining Path …
On January 14, 1984, there was a confrontation between the forces of law and order and presumed Shining Path members in the town of Cobriza, province of Tayacaja, department of Huancavelica. The confrontation resulted in the death of 18 people identified as seditionists or presumed members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. …
Guzmán ordered the beginning of the Great Leap Plan, whose political strategy was to concretize and develop support bases, through four campaigns. The objective was to launch a generalized guerrilla war, to extend its zones, to mobilize the masses, to strike at mesnadas to remove the social base for the …
Six young men belonging to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church were murdered in the Callqui payment. This was one of the best known cases of human rights violations committed by the forces of law and order during 1984.
In September 1984, law enforcement forces murdered 19 community members in San Pedro, a town in the Santa Rosa district. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of violence in the Apurimac River Valley, during the period in which the Armed Forces and the DECAS (Counter-Subversive Civil Defense) …
On October 1, 1984, the parish priest of Amparaes, R.P. Rolando Ramos, a Salesian, was arrested along with several members of his pastoral team in the province of Calca, Cuzco. A week later, the pastor and four members of his pastoral team were released after the ecclesiastical authorities took the …
In November 1984, approximately 40 subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the village of Lucmahuaycco, located in Cusco, in order to raise awareness among the population. At approximately 11 p.m. that same day, the forces of law and order together with the Mollebamba ronderos entered the village. As a result …
In 1985, Rondas Campesinas were formed in the main communities and annexes in the area of Acobamba, Huancavelica. This organization arose as a response to the intensification of murders by the Shining Path against the civilian population during 1984, when they also victimized the authorities of the districts and communities …
Amnesty International (AI) filed a formal complaint about the situation of forced disappearances in Peru. The international human rights organization stated that more than a thousand people had disappeared in the emergency zone. In addition, they denounced that hundreds of people were killed and tortured by the forces of law …
During April and May 1985, an armed incursion took place in the communities of Accocharcas and Hatumpampa. The event involved both the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the forces of law and order. As a result of this incursion, seven community members lost their lives. This event was part of the context …
In April and May 1985, after a subversive attack in the community of Chillihua, law enforcement and the ronderos of Pallqas and Chupón captured a total of 25 community members accused of being subversives. Subsequently, all of those captured were eliminated. This event took place in the context of widespread …
Riot in the Lurigancho prison that resulted in the death of inmates. The APRA government did not assume any responsibility for these events. This event marked a point in which the denunciations of human rights violations did not find the same echo as in previous cases.
The 1986 prison massacre had a symbolic impact on the National University of Education. Shortly after these events, the portrait of Abimael Guzmán was drawn on the walls of the university dining hall at La Cantuta, symbolically representing the PCP-SL's domination of the university. This marked a turning point in …
The massacre in the prisons marked the beginning of the stage of national deployment of violence. This event was a culminating point that considerably marked all the actors in the conflict and brought to Lima images of massacres that had been far away until then. In practical terms, with this …
On June 18, 1986, prisoners accused of belonging to the PCP-SL rioted and took some hostages in three prisons in Lima: Santa Barbara (women's prison), Lurigancho and El Frontón, trying to avoid being transferred to Miguel Castro Castro prison. The government delegated to the forces of law and order the …
There was a massacre of prisoners in the jails of Lima and Callao, where hundreds of human beings died. The bishops of Peru pronounced themselves against violence 'wherever it came from'. They pointed out that they could not accept the method of terror as a means to achieve change, but …
The massacre of the prisons left a considerable mark on all the actors in the conflict and brought to Lima images of massacres that had been far away until then. In practical terms, with this massacre and the way it was handled, the Aprista government's attempts to develop its own …
Melvi Zacarías Espinoza, Vice President of the Student Federation and militant of Pueblo en Marcha (a legal MRTA organization), was arrested along with other students in January 1987. This arrest marked the beginning of the Pueblo en Marcha debacle in the UNCP, while the PCP-SL began to express itself openly.
On May 13, 1988, in retaliation for a Shining Path PCP column ambushing an Army convoy in the vicinity of the community, a law enforcement patrol raided Cayara. Law enforcement forces gathered the population in the community and killed 28 peasants in cold blood. This was one of the most …
Osmán Morote Barrionuevo, leader of the PCP-SL (Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path), was arrested in a raid carried out by the forces of law and order. This capture represented a significant blow to the leadership of the Shining Path at a time when the subversive group was intensifying …
In Ayacucho, the priest Carlos Gallagher, Pilar Coll (executive secretary of the National Human Rights Coordinating Committee), two social workers from CEAS, Reiner Uhle (German) from SERPAJ and Guadalupe Callcunto (vice-president of the Association of Relatives detained in the emergency zone) were detained under accusation of being terrorists. After efforts …
Capture of MRTA leader Victor Polay Campos in Huancayo in early 1989. This was a major blow to the organization and prompted an urgent show of force that led to the failed Tarma operation.
Between 1989 and 1992, 313 cases of irregular detentions were registered in the province of Leoncio Prado, of which 183 people are missing. According to the CVR database, in this province between 1989 and 1994 around 232 people lost their lives and 198 are missing. Most of the cases took …
On October 10, 1989, an armed confrontation took place in the district of Antauta, province of Melgar, between law enforcement forces and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This confrontation resulted in the death of 14 Shining Path members. On the same day, another PCP-SL attack took place in the district of Ananea, …
A woman was detained on November 3, 1989 in the district of San Juan de Miraflores, province and department of Lima. The CVR Report document mentions this case in the context of arbitrary detentions where sexual violations took place. The declarant was a victim of sexual violence during her detention, …
In January 1990, the main column of the Shining Path PCP suffered a decisive setback in Puno. The forces of law and order caught up with the subversive column and in the confrontation five subversives were killed, among them their military commander. This event marked an important turning point in …
Angel Escobar Jurado, leader of the Federation of Peasant Communities and vice-president of the Huancavelica Human Rights Commission, disappeared on February 27, 1990. It is presumed that the perpetrators of the crime were related to law enforcement. The case occurred in a context of intense political violence in the Huancavelica …
Ever Lijarza Carrillo, a pedagogy student, disappeared on June 4, 1990. His mother searched for his body in various places, including the banks of the Mantaro River where she saw how the Army threw black bags with the bodies of tortured young men, with wires around their necks and badly …
The academic vice-rector of UNCP, Jaime Cerrón Palomino, was kidnapped as he left his home on June 9 along with his driver Armando Tapia Gutiérrez. Their bodies were found on June 17 in the district of Sincos, approximately 20 km north of Huancayo. They were found with their limbs severed, …
Between September and October 1990 several students disappeared, among them Alcides Ccopa Taipe and Francisco Fernandez Galvez, well-known anthropology student leaders. Both had been present at the presentation of Martina Portocarrero in August or September, an event that was apparently used by intelligence to identify leaders. Two months after that …
Angel Luis Huaynate, a student of Pedagogy, was found dead with signs of torture: burns on one cheek, hands tied, eyes covered with green bandage, gunshot wound in the heart and two more wounds in the head. Edson Espinoza Tueros, a 5th year student of Pedagogy, died with him. The …
On October 21, 1990, a university student was arrested in Ayacucho in circumstances that several witnesses witnessed. According to the testimonies gathered, the young man was placed in the trunk of a police patrol car. This event is part of the context of political violence and repression that characterized the …
A female affiant was arrested on November 27, 1991 in the district of Lima. During her detention, she was subjected to sexual violence and torture. The events occurred in the context of detentions carried out by law enforcement forces during the internal armed conflict. The declarant was subsequently transferred to …
On December 21, 1991, there was an armed confrontation between law enforcement forces and MRTA militants in Cedroccasa, district of Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, in which four MRTA militants died. In this confrontation, four MRTA militants were killed. This was a definitive blow to the front that MRTA had …
On April 5, 1992, President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, with the support of the forces of law and order, announced the dissolution of the National Parliament and the total reorganization of the Judiciary. As part of this coup d'état, the president of the Senate, Felipe Osterling Parodi, and the president of …
On July 3, 1992, a woman was arrested in the Urbanización San Felipe, located in the district of Comas, Lima. The detention was carried out by law enforcement forces in the context of the Peruvian internal armed conflict. This case is part of the testimonies documented by the CVR about …
The declarant was arrested on July 23, 1992 in the district of San Martin de Porres, Lima. During her detention, she was the victim of sexual violence and other abuses. The case is part of a documented pattern of sexual violence against women detained during the internal armed conflict. Testimonies …
Justiniano Fredy Vicente Rivera disappeared on September 7, 1992. Twenty days after his disappearance, his body was found floating in the irrigation canal near the 'Cahuide' tap, near the university town. His body had a severed jugular vein and his knees were badly bruised.
Dante Edgar Granados Gómez, a mining engineering student, was executed. His father picked up his body on October 7 and found a sign on his chest that read 'Así mueren los soplones' (This is how snitches die) with a drawing of the hammer and sickle. His body had traces of …
The affiant was detained on November 22, 1992 in the district of Chulucanas, province of Morropon, department of Piura. This case is mentioned in the context of testimonies on sexual violence and detentions during the internal armed conflict. The detention was carried out by law enforcement forces in the context …
Milagro Flor Túpac Gonzáles, a Social Work student, was taken from her home in the early morning of February 12, 1993 by a group of hooded men. Her whereabouts were never known, despite her father's efforts to locate her. Her father went to all police and military offices, filed complaints …
Fifteen UNCP students were captured accused of belonging to subversive groups. These arrests occurred after several students captured 15 days earlier took advantage of the law of repentance and gave names of university students, professors or workers, possibly innocently implicating them.
A declarant was detained in the district, province and department of Huancayo on February 22, 1995. During her time at DINCOTE, they took her clothes off her top and said things to terrorize her. The testimony is part of a broader context of sexual violence and torture documented during detentions …
Margie Clavo Peralta was captured in El Tambo, district of Huancayo. Together with her, Rodolfo Gutiérrez Muñoz, who was a military commander, was arrested. This capture took place in the context of the consolidation of the defeat and dismantling of the PCP-SL in the central region between 1993 and 1995. …
In May 2002, the villagers of Uchuraccay handed over to the members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a list with the names of 135 Uchuraccaínos who died as a result of political violence between 1983 and 1984. This delivery was part of the TRC's documentation work on the victims …
Testimony of a person who was detained and imprisoned, where he recounts the conditions of mistreatment and humiliation experienced in prison. The declarant describes how at 12 o'clock at night they were taken out one by one, stripped naked and doused with water, and interrogated about alleged activities and people …
The Women's Public Hearing was a unique session held by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission where multiple cases of sexual violence and human rights violations against women during the internal armed conflict were presented. During this hearing, testimonies were heard from women who were victims of rape, forced nudity, arbitrary …