The Ministry of the Interior holds Vanguardia Revolucionaria responsible for the events of Huacataz in Cajamarca, where four peasants died in a confrontation with the Civil Guard. The government attributed responsibility for the confrontation to the political organization Vanguardia Revolucionaria.
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, …
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 …
During 1982, Peruvian law enforcement forces suffered 12 fatal casualties in the fight against armed subversion, according to information provided by the armed institutes and the Ministry of the Interior to the CVR. These casualties represented 0.7% of the total number of law enforcement casualties during the entire internal armed …
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 …
In mid-September 1984, a witness in the Uchuraccay case was detained by a group of Marines and taken to the Tambo military barracks. There she was tortured and raped, despite having the guarantees of the Peruvian Episcopate and the Ministry of the Interior due to her status as a witness …
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 …
The MRTA (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru) exploded a car bomb at the door of the Ministry of the Interior on July 25, 1985. This attack occurred in a context of escalating political violence in the country, just three days before the inauguration of President Alan García Pérez. The attack was …
A car bomb was placed by MRTA at the Ministry of the Interior, without causing fatalities. This was the first time this terrorist method was used by MRTA.
On February 13, 1987, during the state of emergency and in the middle of the curfew imposed in Lima, around four thousand policemen entered the university residences of three state universities in Lima: San Marcos, Engineering and La Cantuta, in the early hours of the morning. The Minister of the …
During the 1988 police reform process in Peru, several records of police members who had died in the fight against subversion were lost. The Ministry of the Interior submitted to the CVR a list of 568 members of the police who died as a result of the fight against subversion, …
On February 7, 1988, a public notice appeared with the title "Security is everyone's task" that presented photographs and physical characteristics of six leaders of subversive organizations. The ad includes images of Abimael Guzmán Reinoso (leader of the PCP-SL), Julio César Mezzich, Osmán Morote Barrionuevo (number two of the PCP-SL), …
The Ministry of the Interior issued a communiqué informing about the capture of Benedicto Peña, mayor of the district of Lagunas, Yurimaguas. Peña was arrested in the company of other apristas while they were handing out leaflets of the Comando Rodrigo Franco. The Comando Rodrigo Franco was a paramilitary group …
The Minister of the Interior, Agustín Mantilla Campos, publicly announces the existence of an assassination plot against the presidential candidates by subversive groups. This announcement was made in the context of the 1990 general elections, at a time of intense terrorist activity in the country. The announcement sought to warn …
Mr. Cromwell Castillo Castillo, father of Ernesto Castillo Paez, filed a Habeas Corpus suit before the 24th Court of Instruction of Lima on behalf of his son and against the Ministry of the Interior, the Chief of the Peruvian National Police and the Chief of the National Directorate against Terrorism. …
During 1991 there was one of the highest number of fatalities among Peruvian law enforcement personnel in the internal armed conflict. According to information provided by the armed institutes and the Ministry of the Interior to the CVR, 207 law enforcement personnel died that year, representing 12.4% of the total …
Police intervention called 'Mudanza Uno' in the Shining Path wards of the Canto Grande prison to transfer more than 100 women to the Chorrillos prison. On May 12, an official communiqué from the Ministry of the Interior reported that 35 inmates accused of terrorism were killed. This operation was carried …
The police intervention called "Mudanza Uno" is carried out in the Canto Grande prison wards where prisoners of the PCP-SL are imprisoned. The reason was to transfer more than 100 women to the Chorrillos prison. On May 12, an official communiqué from the Ministry of the Interior reported that 35 …
In 1995 there was a significant increase in law enforcement casualties in the upper Huallaga area. According to information provided by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior to the CVR, 132 law enforcement personnel died that year (104 from the Army and 28 …
On April 18, 1995, the judge of the 16th Criminal Court of Lima, Dr. Antonia Saquicuray, admitted the denunciation of the Provincial Prosecutor and opened an investigation against General EP Julio Salazar Monroe and others accused for the crimes of murder and injuries in the Barrios Altos massacre. The judge …
One of the first acts of the transitional government was the formation of the Inter-Institutional Working Group to propose the creation of a Truth Commission. This group included the participation of the Ministries of Justice, Interior, Defense, Promotion of Women and Human Development, the Ombudsman's Office, the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, …
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