In June 1976, the left promoted the formation of the Central Highway Struggle Committee, representative of the unions in the industrial zone. This committee organized mobilizations and a strong strike in solidarity with the workers of the Nylon factory. The action culminated in a violent confrontation with police forces and …
On January 28, a hunger strike of sixty workers began on behalf of those dismissed during the national strike of July 1977. The strike continued until February, even after the police evicted the workers from the temples where they had been gathering. The workers were protesting their dismissals during the …
Social mobilizations against the increase in fuel and fares continue. In the Constituent Assembly, both the PAP and the PPC blame political agitators for promoting such disturbances. Police repression causes the death of three high school students in Lima and Ayacucho during protests against price increases.
Taking advantage of the suspension of individual guarantees, Abimael Guzmán Reinoso was captured, but was quickly released. Apparently there was intervention by members of the Police Forces and the EP to expedite his release. This capture and release occurred in the context of the state of emergency declared after the …
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 …
Declaration of the Beginning of the Armed Struggle by the Communist Party of Peru Shining Path. The action in Chuschi surprised the police forces and a large part of Peruvian society. The police forces were neither doctrinally nor logistically and operationally prepared to face this threat. Between 1980 and 1982, …
Edith Lagos Saenz, a former law student at San Martin de Porres University, was arrested in Ayacucho after a two-month operation. She was accused of being one of the four most important leaders of PCP-SL. Her capture was considered an important achievement of the police forces in the fight against …
Ayacucho was declared a state of emergency in 1981, which marked the beginning of military intervention in the region. Since this declaration, complaints against the police forces and especially against the Sinchis have multiplied. This rejection became more acute after the murder in the general hospital of Ayacucho of three …
During 1981, Peruvian law enforcement suffered 4 fatal casualties as a result of the internal armed conflict, representing 0.2% of the total number of law enforcement casualties during the entire period under investigation. According to information submitted by the Ministry of the Interior and the Joint Command of the Armed …
On February 24, university professor Luis Kawata Makabe, an opponent of Abimael Guzmán Reinoso within the PCP-SL but considered his lieutenant by the press at the time, was captured in Ayacucho. His capture was presented as an important blow against the structure of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso.
On May 26, 1981, Edmundo Cox Beuzeville was arrested along with other people in the town of Sicuani, province of Canchis, department of Cuzco. They were accused of being militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This arrest took place in the context of the early years of the internal armed conflict, …
A 14-year-old girl was raped by a group of armed and hooded Sinchis. They violently entered her house by breaking doors and windows. They blindfolded her, put her in a car and raped her among seven of them. At dawn, they put her on a helicopter and in mid-flight they …
Death of Edith Lagos, one of the Shining Path members who escaped from the Huamanga prison, in a clash with members of the police. Following her death, there were massive demonstrations of support that included a funeral mass celebrated by the bishop of Ayacucho and a mass burial in which …
Sinchis arrived in Chalcos in two helicopters and presented themselves to the population as protectors. They organized sports championships. After two weeks they began to get drunk and captured a group of teachers, whom they accused of being terrorists without any evidence. After detaining and beating them for several hours …
During 1983, Peruvian law enforcement agencies suffered 13 fatal casualties as a result of the internal armed conflict, according to information submitted by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior to the CVR. Of these casualties, 4 corresponded to the Armed Forces and 9 …
Civil guard Edwin Heredia Sotomayor was murdered by the PCP-SL two blocks from the Ninth Police Station of the Civil Guard in Huamanga as he was leaving work. A few days later, economist Flavio Quispe Huamán died of a bullet to the head. The murder, which occurred in unclear circumstances, …
Between 9 and 10 p.m., a group of policemen disguised in ponchos and hats entered the house, but wearing Sinchis' clothes and boots under their ponchos. They were young, tall, thick and some of them dark-haired, and they were armed. The family was sleeping when the intruders broke down the …
On June 22, 1983, William Zabarburú, librarian of the Labor Cultural Center of Cerro de Pasco, Izquierda Unida militant and candidate of the Partido Unificado Mariateguista (PUM) for the department of Cerro de Pasco, was arrested. He was imprisoned in the El Frontón prison for two years, unjustly accused of …
At 3:00 a.m., the affiant felt the door of her house being forced open while she was sleeping with her husband. When she woke up and lit a candle, six policemen came in and took Don Albino, 41 years old, outside. They forced him to lie on the floor with …
The Socos massacre was perpetrated by police forces in November 1983, resulting in the murder of 34 peasants. This event occurred in the same year as other significant massacres such as the Shining Path incursions in Lucanamarca and Huancasancos that left 80 dead in April. Unlike the massacre of 8 …
During 1984, Peruvian law enforcement suffered 27 fatal casualties in the context of the internal armed conflict, representing 1.6% of the total number of law enforcement casualties during the entire period under investigation. Of these casualties, 15 corresponded to the Armed Forces and 12 to the Police Forces. This year …
On April 30, 1984, there was an armed confrontation between the Civil Guard and subversive elements of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Erapata, Lucmahuayco. The clash resulted in the death of 22 subversives and a police sergeant. This event was part of the escalation of violence that characterized …
On July 15, 1984, the first invasion of Huaycán was organized as part of the 'Special Program for Urban Development of the Huaycán area', implemented during the municipal administration of Alfonso Barrantes. This invasion was part of the urban expansion process of Metropolitan Lima towards the peripheral cones. The event …
On August 2, 1984, members of the police forces raided the home of journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca's mother in Huanta. Jaime Ayala Sulca was a correspondent for the newspaper La República. This raid occurred in the context of the journalist's disappearance, which caused a commotion in political circles along with …
Thirty-two inmates of the Social Readaptation Center (CRAS) of Lurigancho died in a fire that occurred after a police repression. The event occurred in the context of the internal armed conflict and the growing presence of prisoners accused of terrorism in Lima's prisons. This incident is part of a series …
During 1985, Peruvian law enforcement agencies suffered 31 fatal casualties in the fight against armed subversion, according to information provided by the armed forces and the Ministry of the Interior to the CVR. Of these casualties, 15 corresponded to the Armed Forces and 16 to the Police Forces. These deaths …
In 1985 there was a confrontation between the PCP-SL and police forces at the Cajabamba power plant. This event was part of the first wave of violence in the region between 1980 and 1988. The confrontation occurred in the context of the expansion of the PCP-SL in the province of …
On August 19, 1985, the Peruvian government announced the decision to dismiss and retire 37 generals from the Police Forces. This measure took place in the context of the reorganization of the Police Forces which had been approved by Congress on August 15 by means of a law declaring the …
In 1986, in Curgos, district of Huamachuco, 12 hikers were surprised while resting in the house of Carmen Sandoval Loayza. During the attack, three hikers were killed in the confrontation. Carmen Sandoval's daughter was killed in the archway at the entrance to the town and another hiker was killed nearby. …
President Alan Garcia Perez gave a message to the nation on February 7, 1986. This message took place in a context of widespread political violence, with actions by both the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA. The presidential message was one of the outstanding political events of 1986, according to the …
On March 4, 1986, Lieutenant Commander AP Alvaro Artaza Adrianzén disappeared just before the trial against him for the Ayala case began. He was to be the first officer to be tried for the disappearance of journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca. The report mentions sub-officer Lince (second warrant officer AP Román …
On April 24, 1986, members of the police forces were assassinated in Aucayacu. This event is part of a series of violent attacks that occurred during that period in the context of the Peruvian internal armed conflict. The attack is recorded in the 1986 summary of the CVR report as …
Robinsón Silva Mori was a university student who was killed by police forces in Huaura province in 1987. He was accused of terrorism in the context of the internal armed conflict. This murder occurred during the period when the security forces were conducting intelligence operations in the area north of …
The Peruvian government accepted the resignation of the general director of the Police Forces and the senior directors of the Civil Guard (GC) and the Republican Guard (GR). This decision took place in a context of increasing political violence and terrorism in the country. The resignations were part of changes …
During 1988 there was a sharp increase in law enforcement casualties, with a total of 141 fatalities (102 from the Armed Forces and 39 from the Police Forces), representing 8.4% of the total casualties during the entire conflict. This increase coincided with the period of the so-called 'jump to strategic …
Between 1988 and 1990, the armed forces and the police forces carried out anti-drug and counter-subversive operations in Tocache, San Martin. These operations resulted in the displacement of the drug trafficking firms that were based in that area. The firms were forced to move to other areas of the country, …
Indefinite strike called and led by the Huanuco Defense Front during June 1988. The strike was motivated by disagreements over the regionalization project that the government was implementing at that time. The protest was violently repressed by the forces of law and order. A UNMSM university student was killed by …
The proposals of President Alan Garcia Perez on changes in the legislation to combat terrorism were admitted for debate in the Chamber of Deputies and sent to commissions for prior analysis before their approval. These proposals regulated the procedure for police investigation, instruction and trial of crimes committed for subversive …
In 1989, in San José de Manzanares, Huacho, the police arrested and disappeared Antonio Osores De la Cruz, suspected of terrorism. This occurred in the context of the extension of the actions of the main forces of the PCP-SL to localities on the coast, which generated a response from the …
During 1989, Peruvian law enforcement forces suffered 149 fatal casualties in the fight against armed subversion, representing 8.9% of the total number of law enforcement casualties during the entire conflict. Of these casualties, 101 corresponded to the Armed Forces (mainly the Army) and 48 to the Police Forces. This year …
In the context of the police response to the Shining Path offensive in the region, police forces apprehended and disappeared Mamerta Patricio and Norma Higinio Requena in Raján, Ocros, at different times during 1989. These disappearances were part of a broader pattern of arbitrary detentions and forced disappearances carried out …
Aider De la Cruz was executed by police forces in Raján, Ocros, accused of belonging to the ranks of the PCP-SL. This event occurred in the context of the police response against the Shining Path offensive that had spread between 1989 and 1990 to various localities. The execution was part …
In 1989, police forces arrested Jorge Napoleón, Goñe León López and Vibiana López Collazos in Aynaca-Ámbar, accused of terrorism. Subsequently, the three detainees were killed by the police. This event occurred in the context of the police response to the extension of the actions of the main PCP-SL forces to …
On January 4, 1989, there was an attack by police forces against the Union of Workers of the Peruvian Telephone Company (CPT). The attack occurred while a union meeting was taking place at the union's premises. The workers had previously held a peaceful march in support of their wage demands. …
On February 9, 1989, one of the largest peasant and native mobilizations was held in Pucallpa to demand improvements in agriculture from the government. This march was organized by the Confederation of Peruvian Peasants (CCP) to celebrate an agreement after a three-week strike by peasants grouped in the FECADU and …
The Confederation of Peruvian Peasants (CCP) organized a large march of peasants and natives in the city of Pucallpa on February 9, 1989. This mobilization was held to celebrate an agreement reached after a three-week strike by the peasants grouped in the Federation of Peasants of the Department of Ucayali …
A woman was arrested on Dueñas Street in Cercado de Lima on March 8, 1989. She was subsequently transferred to the DINCOTE (National Directorate against Terrorism), where the sexual violence took place. This case is part of a pattern of arbitrary detentions followed by sexual violence against women during the …
On May 6, 1989, a PCP-SL group confronted a police patrol in Azángaro. The confrontation resulted in the death of 6 policemen, 7 hikers and one civilian. This event occurred in the context of a violent campaign by the PCP-SL during May 1989, which included the assassination of authorities and …
In 1990, there was a confrontation between police forces and subversive elements of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the district of Ambar, province of Huaura. The confrontation resulted in the death of two subversives. This event occurred in the context of a Shining Path offensive that had spread between 1989 and …
During 1990, Peruvian law enforcement forces suffered 138 fatal casualties in the fight against armed subversion, which represents 8.2% of the total number of casualties of law enforcement forces during the entire conflict. Of these casualties, 93 corresponded to the Armed Forces (mainly the Army) and 45 to the Police …
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