The Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) was one of several political parties that, inspired by the Cuban revolution, opted for the 'foquista' armed struggle. At the beginning of 1966, the Army arrested the last guerrillas with the collaboration of some Asháninka. Most of the fighters and the Asháninka who accompanied them …
At the beginning of 1966, the Peruvian Army arrested the last guerrillas of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) with the collaboration of some Asháninka from the area. The MIR was one of several political parties that, inspired by the Cuban revolution, opted for the 'foquista' armed struggle in the middle …
During 1980, no fatal law enforcement casualties were recorded according to data provided by the armed institutes and the Ministry of the Interior to the TRC. The internal armed conflict began in 1980, but the first law enforcement casualties were reported from 1981 onwards. In the entire period 1980-2000, 1,674 …
In June, five Argentine citizens, left-wing Peronists, were kidnapped in our country by an Argentine military commando in collaboration with members of the Peruvian EP and returned to their country of origin. This generated a wave of protest against the Argentinean president General Videla and against General EP Pedro Richter …
Conflict with Ecuador. In just a few days, Peruvian Army commandos dislodged Ecuadorian troops who had entered Peruvian territory and had created a false guard post, called Falso Paquisha by the Peruvian government. Two military missions meet in the border town of Huaquillas to initiate the negotiation phase of the …
Brigadier General Rafael Hoyos Rubio, top commander of the EP, died in a plane crash. This precipitates a period of semi-annual successions in the General Command of the EP that was not foreseen until 1983. EP Major General Otto Elespuru Revoredo assumed the top command of the EP for the …
In September 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the Nieto Cisneros brothers in the town of Matara, district of Accocro, province of Huamanga. This event was part of the initial strategy of the PCP-SL to eliminate local authorities and people considered enemies of their revolutionary project. Subsequently, in May 1983, Matara …
At the end of 1983, the Army installed a counter-subversive base in the provincial capital of Churcampa, as part of the military strategy to counteract the actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the region. This base was added to another previously installed in the locality of Millpo, in the high …
General EP Clemente Noel Moral declared on January 1 in El Comercio that the Peruvian Army will remain only two months in Ayacucho, time he has foreseen as 'necessary to exterminate the terrorist outbreaks'. This declaration marked the beginning of military operations in the emergency zone of Ayacucho, where the …
Between 1983 and 1985, members of the Army stationed at Barracks No. 51 Los Cabitos and members of the Intelligence Unit known as 'La Casa Rosada' carried out a systematic pattern of human rights violations. They carried out arbitrary detentions through night raids, torture in military installations, forced disappearances and …
A woman was arrested and taken to the barracks where she was subjected to rape. According to the testimony, after being hanged and tortured, the Captain raped her first, followed by ten soldiers. The perpetrators threatened the victim, telling her not to tell anyone, not even her husband. The case …
In January 1983, the Peruvian army entered Ayacucho, initiating a counteroffensive against the PCP-SL. This entry radically changed the behavior of the PCP-SL in relation to the population, adopting a much more coercive attitude and increasing the assassinations of those who were against it. One of the first military actions …
The Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) ordered an armed strike on January 8, 1983 in the department of Ayacucho. This strike took place in a context of increasing political violence, just days after the Armed Forces assumed internal control of the department on December 31, 1982. General …
On January 15, 1983, one of the first confrontations between the subversive forces of the PCP-SL and an Army patrol took place in a spot in the district of Pampas, province of Tayacaja. This confrontation occurred shortly after the installation of the Political Military Command in Ayacucho and Huancavelica and …
In February 1983, at approximately 12:00 midnight, thirty soldiers entered the home of a family in the Ccochapata annex. The soldiers asked about Shining Path members and subjected the inhabitants to torture and sexual violence. An elderly woman was hung from a beam with her hands tied behind her back, …
On February 24, 1983, the army made a surprise incursion into Lucanamarca, at a time when some of the local leaders of the PCP-SL were meeting. A confrontation took place in which 9 people died, among them one of the important leaders of the PCP-SL in the area, "comrade Nelson". …
On February 24, 1983, the Army made a surprise incursion into Lucanamarca when some local leaders of the PCP-SL were meeting in the Council. The subversives tried to flee towards a ravine. The military caught up with them and a confrontation took place in which nine people were killed, among …
In the first days of March 1983, a contingent of PCP-SL militants entered the Santa Rosa mine, located in the town of Carhuancho, district of San Pedro de Coris in Churcampa. On March 7, military personnel arrived at the mine and arrested eight villagers: Segundino Fernandez Huamán, Julio Huamán Fernández, …
On March 25, 1983, the Tinco Paucarhuanca brothers decided to present themselves before the military to clarify their responsibilities. They were accused of being subversives, arrested and kicked. They were taken to the Marita Bridge two kilometers from Sancos and executed with bullets. This was not the only case of …
In April 1983, several residents of Totos, a district in the province of Cangallo, were detained by members of the Peruvian Army. Some of the detainees were later killed. This event took place in the context of the military offensive initiated in January 1983 against supposed support bases of the …
Between April 4 and 6, 1983, Peruvian Army helicopters arrived in the town of Totos, took possession of the local educational center and established a military base. The base operated under the command of the 43rd Motorized Infantry Battalion from Huancavelica, which depended on the Cangallo barracks. After settling in, …
On April 8, 1983, members of the Civil Guard (Sinchis) and the Army under the command of 'Captain Jackal' arbitrarily detained five peasants from Totos: Julio Godoy Bellido, Primitivo Tucno Medina, Marceliano Zamora Vivanco, Roberto López León and a brother of one of them. They were held at the military …
In May and June 1983, in the rural area of Huamanga, the Acocro massacres occurred, which were among those with the greatest public impact in the region. These massacres occurred in the context of the entry of the Armed Forces into the region and the installation of the political-military command …
In May 1983, members of the Peruvian Army razed the community of Matará in the district of Accocro. During the operation, they burned houses, killed, tortured and disappeared approximately 25 people. This event was part of the strategy of indiscriminate repression implemented by the Armed Forces after taking control of …
Anthropologist Jaime Urrutia, director of the IER José María Arguedas and professor at the National University San Cristóbal de Huamanga (UNSCH), was kidnapped from his home by hooded soldiers. He was clandestinely detained in the Los Cabitos barracks for two weeks on charges of being linked to subversive groups. This …
At 9:00 a.m., the Army arrived and called the population to form up in the plaza. The soldiers forced the people to form up in separate lines of women and men. A hooded soldier began to point out people who should get out of the line. They selected 17 people, …
In July and September 1983, massacres occurred in the district of Chiara, province of Huamanga, Ayacucho. In July 1983, the PCP-SL murdered 20 community members in Sachabamba, Chiara. In September of the same year, the PCP-SL murdered 10 community members in Bellavista, Chiara. In April 1984, members of the army …
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 …
On July 16, 1983, military personnel detained Putis community members Oswaldo Fernández Cusiche, Maximiliana Quispe Fernández, Vidal Farfán Fernández and Víctor Fernández Huayllasco. They were taken to a helicopter with an unknown destination. They are still missing. The incident was denounced by the Association for Human Rights (Aprodeh). This operation …
On August 19, 1983, the Peruvian Army perpetrated a massacre in Tsiriari, department of Junin. Eighty fatalities were recorded, of which 79 were unidentified and one was identified as a woman. The remains found showed evidence of sexual violence prior to the murder. One of the victims showed clear signs …
On September 26, 1983, army and police forces, in a combined action, entered the capital of Paucarbamba and neighboring towns. During the operation, the forces of order raided houses and took some villagers prisoner. The military and police stole some of the population's property and raped some of the villagers. …
A group of hikers, part of whom were youths apparently kidnapped the previous day from a neighboring community, took up residence in the Umasi school where they were surprised by a military patrol. None survived the attack. According to witnesses, so far a mass grave with 41 corpses is found …
On October 9, 1983, a combined group of 35 Sinchis and members of the army arrived in three helicopters to the town of Ayalca, annex of Chalcos. They forced the villagers to gather in the main square. At the end of the meeting, about 60 people were locked up in …
In November 1983, five community members from San Agustín, Santa Rosa, were disappeared by members of the army. This event occurred during the initial period of military intervention in the Apurimac River Valley, when the Armed Forces were beginning to establish their presence in the area. The disappearance of these …
On November 8, 1983 at 2:00 a.m., soldiers from the Los Cabitos barracks burst into Alejandro Noa Yupanqui's home in Huamanga and violently arrested him. He was put in a sack while they kicked him in the head and threw him into a truck. A week later, on November 17, …
When the military entered the district of Totos in 1984, they rounded up the villagers and detained a female declarant. During her detention, she was the victim of rape. On a second occasion, when the captain was changed, she was captured again and taken to the base. On the second …
The day after the murder of four community members by the Shining Path, a group of 20 or 30 soldiers from the Julcamarca military base arrived in the community of Cahua in 1984. The men were beaten and the women were taken into abandoned houses. In these abandoned houses, the …
Between 1984 and 1990, the Peruvian Army carried out successive lightning operations on both banks of the Huallaga River in order to surprise drug traffickers and the Shining Path organization operating in the area. These operations led to confrontations with PCP-SL companies that resulted in many deaths on both sides. …
In March 1984, an army squad detained 12 people accused of being subversives in the community of Yerbabuena. The detainees were transferred to the Mollebamba military base. After their transfer, the 12 people disappeared without a trace, becoming victims of forced disappearance. This event is part of the pattern of …
In April 1984, members of the Peruvian Army murdered 32 inhabitants of Huarapite, a town in the district of Chiara in the province of Huamanga. This event occurred in the context of the indiscriminate repression carried out by the Armed Forces in the area during 1984, a year that registered …
In June 1984, members of the Peruvian Army detained, tortured and disappeared residents of the district of San Jose de Ticllas. The event resulted in 8 people disappeared and 2 released. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the area, during the …
In June 1984, soldiers from the Concepción military base killed six people identified as Shining Path guerrillas in the town of Tantar, Vilcashuamán district. This event occurred in the context of the military counteroffensive initiated in 1983 against the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the region. The Vilcashuamán military base had been …
In June 1984, soldiers murdered eight villagers in the town of Rosario, Ayna district, La Mar province. This event occurred during the period of greatest violence in the Apurimac River Valley, when the Armed Forces had taken control of the area under the Political Military Command. The event took place …
On June 24, 1984, hooded members of the Peruvian Army (EP) arrested Juan Darío Layme, an 18-year-old law student at the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga (UNSCH). The arrest occurred in the context of the escalation of political violence in Ayacucho during that period. This event is part …
In July 1984, members of the Peruvian Army perpetrated a mass murder in the town of Pucayacu, Ayna district, La Mar province. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of military operations in the Apurimac River Valley during 1984, the year in which the Armed Forces and the …
In July 1984, a mass murder took place in Pucayacu, Ayna, where nearly 80 people were killed by members of the Peruvian Army. This event is part of a series of human rights violations that occurred during the internal conflict in Peru, where both law enforcement and insurgent groups committed …
On July 7, 1984, Rigoberto Tenorio Roca, 2nd non-commissioned officer of the Peruvian Army and pre-military instruction teacher at the Gonzales Vigil school in Huanta, was intervened by Marines when he was traveling from Huanta to Huamanga in a bus belonging to the Hidalgo company, at approximately 2:00 p.m. in …
On July 15, 1984, the Peruvian Army perpetrated a massacre in Muyurina, Ayacucho. During this event, six men were executed. According to surviving witnesses, the women were victims of rape before or during the massacre. This event forms part of the pattern documented by the CVR where the armed forces …
In August 1984, members of the Peruvian Army (EP) detained, tortured and killed 2 ronderos in Santa Rosa. This event occurred in the context of the formation of the Counter-Subversive Civil Defense Forces (DECAS) in the Apurimac River Valley and the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the area. …
In August 1984, four villagers from San Antonio de Pichihuillca were detained by members of the Peruvian Army and subsequently disappeared. This event occurred in the context of the expansion of the Defensas Civiles Contrasubversivas (DECAS) in the Apurimac River Valley, where the organization had been formally constituted on June …
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