The district of Chungui was one of the territories most affected by the internal armed conflict in Peru. Between 1980 and 2000, 1,381 people were recorded dead and missing, almost 17% of the district's population counted in 1981. The conflict involved actions by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, the Armed Forces, and …
In 1982, the Peruvian army installed military bases in the districts of Castrovirreyna and Santa Inés in the department of Huancavelica. These military installations were established in the context of the internal armed conflict and the presence of the Shining Path in the region. The bases were strategically located in …
The Batir I Campaign was a military operation that ran from July 1982 to October 1982, as part of the third phase known as the Batir Agreement. This campaign was followed by Batir II, which lasted from November 1982 to March 1983. These operations were part of the Peruvian government's …
In October 1982, a military base was installed in the province of Castrovirreyna, department of Huancavelica. The objective of this military base was to control the mining centers in the area, specifically Caudalosa Grande, Caudalosa Chica and San Genaro. The installation of this base was part of the Peruvian State's …
In December 1982, the Armed Forces intervened in the internal armed conflict in the department of Ayacucho. Political-military commands were established which concentrated extraordinary powers in relation to the control of internal order. The initial action was mainly reactive and subordinated to the initiative of Sendero Luminoso. The immediate result …
On December 27, 1982, President Belaunde gave an ultimatum of 72 hours for the terrorists to surrender their weapons before the armed forces took control of the emergency zone. General Roberto Clemente Noel y Moral was appointed as Chief of the Political Military Command of the Emergency Zone and on …
The Armed Forces entered the counter-subversive struggle, replacing the police forces in the control of internal order in the provinces of the department of Ayacucho declared in emergency. This marked a turning point in the conflict, with a dramatic increase in cases of forced disappearance. According to information from the …
On December 31, 1982, General EP Roberto Clemente Noel Moral was appointed Political Military Chief of the Ayacucho emergency zone. He took office on January 1, 1983, establishing the Political Military Command with headquarters in the city of Ayacucho. This appointment marked the beginning of military control of the zone …
In January 1983, about 55 hikers who had settled in the Umasi school were surprised by a military patrol. Most of them died in the confrontation. This event marked an important turning point, since from that moment on the PCP-SL understood that the war had incorporated new and bigger enemies: …
The Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso withdrew from the area of Manta and Vilcas in the department of Huancavelica during 1983. This withdrawal coincided with the installation of a military base in the area. The movement of the PCP-SL from this area was part of a moment of advance of …
In 1983, a military base was installed in Churcampa, department of Huancavelica. This installation was part of the Peruvian State's counterinsurgency strategy against the advance of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the region. The military base was established in the context of the constant strikes and strikes by miners in 1982, …
In 1983, the Army installed a counter-subversive base in the town of Millpo, in the highlands of the district of Paucarbamba, province of Churcampa. From this base, military patrols would go out to the communities and towns of Paucarbamba, detaining people who were then interrogated at the base. Some detainees, …
In 1983, the marines arrived in an unspecified village where they organized the Rondas Campesinas. This event is part of the broader context of human rights violations documented by the CVR, where multiple abuses committed by members of the armed forces against the civilian population were recorded. The testimony mentions …
In 1983, a military base was installed in Marcavalle, district of La Oroya, as part of the Peruvian State's counter-subversive strategy. This military installation had a significant impact on the presence of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the metallurgical zone of La Oroya, considerably limiting its capacity for action in the …
During this period, a counter-subversive military campaign with inadequate strategy resulted in numerous human rights violations. Military operations began on December 30, 1982. The number of extrajudicial executions and various human rights violations reached catastrophic proportions in proportion to the size of the population in the area. Clandestine detention and …
Since the beginning of 1983, the war intensified in Ayacucho with the entry of the Armed Forces into the conflict. Militarization coincided with the implementation of the so-called 'dirty war', characterized by the use of indiscriminate violence, extrajudicial executions, rapes, disappearances and arbitrary detentions. The Armed Forces acted with ethnic …
On February 10, 1983, the brothers Hilario and Alejandro Soto Espinoza were detained by military personnel in the district of Paucarbamba. The military patrols were leaving the counter-subversive base installed in the town of Millpo, in the highlands of the district of Paucarbamba, to go through the communities and towns …
In early 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 troops arrived at the mine in response to the Shining Path incursion. The military arrested and took away …
On March 22, 1983, shortly after the installation of the Political Military Command in Huancavelica, an Army patrol ambushed a contingent of 25 subversives of the PCP-SL in Jala, district of Vilca. In the confrontation 24 Shining Path members were killed. This military action temporarily contained the expansion of subversive …
First military campaign of the Armed Forces against the PCP-SL in Ayacucho, which lasted from May 1983 to February 1984. General EP Clemente Noel Moral was in charge of the Political Military Command of the emergency zone. This campaign was carried out in two waves: the first from May to …
On the night of September 1, 1983, Professor Mauro was captured and tortured by the military in Vilcashuamán after he revealed information about the PCP-SL while drinking. The soldiers violently entered Professor CQ's house and fired indiscriminately, killing eleven members of the same family, among them six women (one pregnant), …
A villager from the community of Accomarca was arrested in Vilcashuamán on February 28, 1984 by a lieutenant of the Armed Forces along with two men and three women. At the Asquipata barracks, the soldiers took their belongings, including their clothes, ponchos and hats. They were then taken to a …
On March 21, 1984, eighteen military trucks arrived in the districts of Manta and Vilca, in the province of Huancavelica. This massive arrival of military troops was part of the Peruvian State's counter-subversive strategy in response to the presence and actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Vilca river basin. …
Remigio Paucar Surichaqui was extrajudicially executed by a soldier from the Manta Military Base on March 22, 1984. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of counter-subversive actions in the rural area of Huancavelica, where the Army was searching for subversive 'barracks'. The military strategy was based on …
In April 1984, soldiers from the Lircay Military Base raided the community of Chontacancha, department of Huancavelica. During this operation, the soldiers executed local community members. In a subsequent raid, the same soldiers raped the widows of the community members who had previously been executed. This case illustrates the pattern …
In August 1984, the Carmen Chico military base was installed in Cerro de Pasco, near the mining centers in the area. This military base was established as part of the Peruvian State's counter-subversive strategy in the central region of the country. From this base, the military carried out control and …
By August 1984, after multiple attacks by the Shining Path PCP and the armed forces, the villagers of Uchuraccay had no choice but to completely abandon their community. During the previous months, incursions by the PCP-SL, the Self-Defense Committees and the military arrived indiscriminately, burning houses, stealing belongings and livestock, …
In September 1984, at the request of the inhabitants of Soras and neighboring communities harassed by PCP-SL detachments, a military base was installed in the area. This installation followed a series of violent attacks by the PCP-SL, including the Negro Mayo massacre in July 1984 where 30 people were killed, …
Juana Lidia Argumedo, sister of Juan Argumedo (guide of the journalists murdered in Uchuraccay in 1983), was arrested on September 15, 1984. After the Uchuraccay tragedy, Juana denounced the responsibility of the armed forces in the events. As a result of these denunciations, she was detained by the forces of …
In October 1984, soldiers disappeared 4 peasants and killed 6 peasants in Huayllay, Luricocha district, Huanta province. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the area, during the period of greatest violence in the provinces of Huanta, Huamanga and La Mar. The …
In November 1984, the Military Base was installed in Santo Tomás de Pata, in the province of Angaraes. This area was considered a "red bastion" and where violence began early due to its proximity to the northern part of the department of Ayacucho. The installation of this military base was …
On November 20, 1984, military personnel detained five people suspected of being subversives in the district of Pachamarca. These people were extrajudicially executed and buried in Mamapancha. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of counter-subversive actions in the area, where the military of the Counter-subversive Base of …
In July 1985, the military raided the town of Pampay, Luricocha district, Huanta province, during what was reported as an alleged PCP-SL meeting. During this military operation, seven villagers were killed. This event is part of the counter-subversive strategy implemented by the armed forces in the area, characterized by repressive …
On August 14, 1985, a military patrol of 25 soldiers under the command of Sub-Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado Hurtado entered the community of Llocllapampa in Accomarca and killed 69 peasants, according to witnesses. Days before, on August 8, the Vilcas military base had ordered a joint operation of several patrols to …
The Lince 7 patrol, commanded by EP sub-lieutenant Telmo Hurtado, raided Llocllapampa. The soldiers rounded up the villagers, separated the men from the women, raped all the women, including the elderly, pregnant women and girls. Then they gathered the victims in the house of Cipriano Gamboa, shot them and set …
On June 18, 1986, detainees held for terrorism in three prisons in Lima and Callao (Lurigancho, El Frontón and Santa Bárbara) rioted. In Santa Barbara two subversives died on June 19. The government ordered the Joint Command to have the military justice system carry out the necessary investigations to determine …
On June 18 and 19, 1986, there was a massacre of prisoners in Lima's prisons. This event had great media impact and was widely covered by Caretas magazine and other media. The magnitude of the violence and the circumstances of the events marked a breaking point in the relationship between …
In November 1986, a military base was installed in Quillacocha, located in Cerro de Pasco. This installation was part of the Peruvian State's military strategy to control subversive activity in the mining region of the central highlands. The base was established in a context of increasing Shining Path activity in …
In 1987, the Pallqas military base was withdrawn from the area as part of a change in government policy to capture community members. Villagers reported mistreatment and abuse during this action. This withdrawal was part of a broader strategy that included the establishment of a new military base in Chapi …
On February 13, 1987, military forces intervened in Peruvian universities, generating protests by the rectors of these educational institutions. The rectors strongly protested against this measure of military intervention on university campuses. This action was framed in the context of the state of emergency prevailing in the country and the …
In April 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso suffered a hard blow with the fall of its main column in the province of Azángaro, department of Puno. This event represented a significant setback for the subversive organization in the Puno highlands region. The fall of this column occurred in a context where …
During the peasant mobilizations for the recovery of land, there were massive detentions of peasants in the provinces of Ayaviri and Azángaro. On April 19, 1987, 300 peasants were arrested in both localities. In addition, 400 additional soldiers arrived in Azángaro as part of the control operation. These arrests occurred …
After the MRTA raid on Juanjui on November 6, 1987, the department of San Martin was declared in a state of emergency. In November 1987, the Political-Military Command of the Huallaga Front was established as the Peruvian State's response to MRTA's armed actions in the region. This military command was …
At the end of 1987, a military base was established in Chapi, allowing the return of approximately 150 people to the area. The significant change occurred with the arrival of Major Miguel Seminario Ayacuchano, appointed as head of the Chapi base between October and December 1987. This Major implemented a …
In February 1988, in Cerro de Pasco, there was a confrontation between the military and a Shining Path column that resulted in the death of comrade 'Johan'. This Shining Path leader had been mentioned earlier in the report as one of the leaders who presumably directed the dynamite attack on …
On May 23, 1988, in the community of San Mateo, district of Churcampa, two villagers were detained by military personnel in the context of counter-subversive patrols. The military carried out these operations when they did not find any hikers in the area. The two detained villagers were later disappeared. This …
On June 5, 1988, three villagers were detained at the Churcampa fair by soldiers from the Churcampa Counter-Subversive Base. The detainees were Saturnino de la Cruz Soto, Marino de la Cruz Soto and Francisco Taipe Ccoñas. This arrest occurred in the context of the intensification of subversive incursions in the …
In November 1988, due to the increase in the number of attacks and victims caused by the PCP-SL and the MRTA, Alan Garcia's government decreed a State of Emergency in all provinces and districts of Junin. Army General Manuel Delgado Rojas was appointed as Chief of the Political Military Command. …
In the last months of 1989, after a series of dynamite attacks by the PCP-SL against Centromín Perú's facilities in Morococha, a military base was installed in the mining camp. The installation of this base occurred shortly after the formation of a defensive brigade by the workers, whose purpose was …
Members of the Armed Forces committed rape against women in the province of Tingo Maria. A testimony from a member of the Armed Forces acknowledges the existence of sexual violations without specific motive, mentioning that they occurred even when they were not on patrol. The witness describes how they controlled …
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