Georgina Gamboa was 16 years old when in 1981 she was raped by the Sinchis (special police forces). The rape occurred first in her home and she was subsequently taken to the Vilcashuaman police station in Ayacucho, where she was raped again. This case had great national resonance. The authorities …
In June 1981, police forces announced the capture of two Shining Path cells, indicating that their members were UNSCH students. This fact was used to reinforce the hypothesis about the existence of links between the university and the Shining Path. The stigma about the university becoming a pack of potential …
Edith Lagos, a young Shining Path militant, was shot on September 2, 1982 in an accidental encounter with the police near Andahuaylas. Her death and subsequent funeral in Ayacucho were widely covered by the media, which transmitted images of her coffin and bloody clothes. The media unwittingly contributed to create …
In October 1982, the PCP-SL carried out an attack in Santo Tomás de Pata, looting merchants' stores and destroying machinery and equipment. In response to this attack, a few days later, the police 'Sinchis' raided the area for the first time with the objective of searching for the Shining Path …
Three days after the battle of Sacsamarca, twenty PCP-SL prisoners who had been subjected to intense torture and deprived of food were taken out of the dungeon. The Sinchis took them to Jinquilpata, a place near the road to Huancasancos, made them stand in line and shot them. The bodies …
During 1984, witness No. 720002 was the victim of a search in the women's wing of the Huamancaca Prison in Huancayo. The police officers entered in the early hours of the morning and took the inmates out to the yard, ordered them to take off their clothes and then to …
While the students were holding a massive march to protest the increase in fares, the police raided the university and killed the student Isaías Bravo Flores, from the Faculty of Agronomy. This occurred in the context of growing tension between law enforcement and the student movement.
On October 5, 1984, there was an intervention by Sinchis police forces in the province of Tayacaja, department of Huancavelica. As a result of this operation, 12 people were reported dead, 11 disappeared and 8 wounded. This event occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations in the area during the …
A female witness was detained by the police in May 1986 in Lima. During her detention she was subjected to interrogation and torture. The events occurred in the context of anti-subversive operations carried out by the forces of law and order during the internal armed conflict. The affiant suffered various …
Beginning in early December, a series of marches and spontaneous land seizures began to take place in the provinces of Azángaro and Melgar. The police responded harshly to these mobilizations. Everyone in the countryside became suspicious and communities were forced to ask for guarantees and prove that their members were …
In 1987, police raids began in Huaycán, during which nearly 300 villagers were detained in two successive raids. These operations were part of the State's response to the presence and infiltration of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Huaycán Project. The raids continued intermittently until March and April 1991. Later, in …
In 1987 there were police interventions in the National University of Education La Cantuta as part of a repressive wave of the State against the presence of the PCP-SL in public universities. These interventions were a response to the Shining Path's takeover of symbolic and doctrinal spaces in the university, …
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 …
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 …
The residents of Huaycán carried out a mobilization that was harshly repelled by the police with tear gas and counter-demonstration vehicles. One of the vehicles ran over two neighbors, killing Rafael Flores Echevarría and leaving Luis handicapped. In addition, the police arrested between 200 and 300 demonstrators. A few days …
The year 1988 was characterized by the disproportionate police repression of student demonstrations, which caused the death of three students between May and October 1988: Javier Arrasco Catpo, Carlos Barnet and Hernán Pozo Barrientos. In all three cases, the deaths occurred in situations where the police fired their firearms irresponsibly, …
Javier Arrasco's death occurred on May 31, 1988, when the Comité de Lucha de Comensales de Cangallo was demonstrating against the massacre of peasants in Cayara. The police irresponsibly fired their firearms during the student demonstration. After the murder, the board of comensales issued a statement protesting the police repression, …
On September 22, 1988, a march of empty pots was held in Lima as a popular protest against the economic measures announced by the government. This demonstration was part of a series of protests that arose after Minister Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre announced new economic measures on September 8. The march …
On October 21, 1988, the police entered the premises of the National Federation of Mine Workers and arrested 14 leaders. This police action took place in the context of a national strike called by the CGTP on October 13 in protest against the government's economic measures. In addition to the …
Law 24949 was enacted, which modified the related articles of the Political Constitution of Peru and created the National Police of Peru (PNP), culminating the reorganization process of the FFPP. The National Police would assume the organization and functions of the FFPP (Civil Guard, Investigation Police and Republican Guard), with …
On December 7, 1988, Law 24949 was enacted creating the National Police of Peru (PNP). This law unified the country's existing police forces under a single institution. The creation of the PNP took place in a context of intensification of the counter-subversive struggle and reorganization of law enforcement. This institutional …
In 1989, the Peruvian government introduced measures to combat subversion, including the creation of the Policía Nacional del Perú and specialized units like the Dirección de Operaciones Especiales (DOES) and Dirección de Inteligencia del Ministerio del Interior (DIGIMIN). Despite these efforts, the Dirección Contra el Terrorismo (DIRCOTE) faced challenges such …
On February 9, 1989, a peaceful march of approximately 8,000 peasants in the city of Pucallpa was violently repressed by the National Police. The march was the culmination of a strike over peasant demands. This event was part of a series of violations of freedom of association and repression of …
In Pucallpa, Ucayali, peasants lifted a 16-day strike and celebrated with a demonstration the agreements reached with the government. The prefect denied permission for the demonstration, which provoked a confrontation. The police intervened in the mobilization carried out by the Federation of Peasants of Ucayali when they tried to deactivate …
In the early morning of April 20, 1989, soldiers and police entered San Marcos and La Cantuta universities. This military intervention took place in a context of intensification of the anti-subversive struggle by the APRA government. The operation was part of the actions of the forces of law and order …
Between 09:30 and 10:00 hours, Pedro Eduardo Haro Cruz and César Augusto Mautino Camones were intercepted while they were riding their bicycles along the Shansha Curve, 7 kilometers from Huaraz. Two unknown persons forced them to get into a closed orange van with license plate RE-5508, a CORDE Ancash vehicle …
The Peruvian Army (EP) and the Peruvian National Police (PNP) twice raided the Universidad Nacional del Centro in the department of Junín. The interventions were carried out in search of possible subversives. The military and police action was motivated by the distribution of flyers announcing an armed strike scheduled for …
On November 1, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso held a march in Manco Capac Square in Lima. During the event, there was a violent confrontation with police forces. As a result of the confrontation, three people lost their lives. This event was part of the most intense period of Shining Path …
The police carried out an unexpected and violent raid on the offices of the newspaper El Diario on November 2, 1989. During the operation, 15 workers and journalists of the newspaper were arrested. This raid took place in the context of the counter-subversive struggle, given that El Diario was considered …
A female witness was detained by the police and taken to the San Juan de Miraflores police station where she was beaten to make her sign a seizure report. During her detention, she was the victim of rape accompanied by insults and offenses. The perpetrators told her "this fucking bitch …
A detachment of the PCP-SL that was gathered in the house of a villager in the hamlet of Hierba Buena, located one hour from Calluán, was surrounded by a platoon of the Peruvian National Police. A confrontation ensued in which the PCP-SL lost more than seven important cadres, among them …
In the early 1990s, during the change of government in Peru, a significant purge was carried out in the Peruvian National Police (PNP). This measure was prompted by accusations of politicization and favoritism in promotions within the police during the Aprista government. The purge focused on the removal of officers …
In the early morning of January 20, 1990, Olivares (known as El Gringo) leads a column of some 30 PCP-SL insurgents to attack the SAIS Sollocota. The National Police detachment manages to repel the assault. The forces of the order undertake the pursuit and towards noon they reach the group …
Presidential candidate Henry Pease García-Yrigoyen of Izquierda Unida (IU) was walking through downtown Lima when he was wounded by a member of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) with lead shot. The attack occurred in the middle of the electoral campaign for the 1990 general elections, in a context of intense …
The government declares a state of emergency for thirty days in the provinces of Lima and Callao. This measure is taken in the context of the electoral period and orders the immobility of all members of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) during the electoral period. The declaration of emergency implies …
In June 1990, police raided the Organizational Support Department (DAO) of the PCP-SL, which operated in Monterrico Norte, a military residential area in Lima. The DAO was responsible for drafting the party's directives that went to the central committees and apparatuses. The property was in charge of lawyer Elvia Nila …
In June 1990, the Army and the police entered the National University of Central Peru (UNCP) and arrested more than a hundred students suspected of being subversives. This intervention took place in the context of the struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA at the university, which had reached bloody …
On July 24, 1990, combined forces of the Peruvian Army and the Peruvian National Police entered Ciro Aramburu Villanueva's house and shot him to death. Aramburu Villanueva was the head of University Welfare at the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University. The operation was carried out by members of both …
The day Alberto Fujimori was sworn in for the first time as President of the Republic, a large group of people invaded a small fenced-in plot of land belonging to the Isola family, located in Ate-Vitarte. This was a large-scale action carried out by the PCP-SL, seeking to consolidate its …
On September 25, 1990, there was an armed confrontation between Sinchis (police) forces and the Shining Path PCP in La Roca, located at kilometer 14 of the Mazamari-Puerto Ocopa highway. This confrontation was interpreted by the displaced Ashaninka natives as a defeat for the PCP-SL. The result of the combat …
Ernesto Rafael Castillo Paez, a sociology student at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, was unexpectedly arrested by police officers wearing red berets at around 11:30 in the morning. The police officers got out of a white patrol car, proceeded to search him and, between shouts and insults, put him …
On October 21, 1990, Ernesto Castillo Paez, a young university student, was detained by members of the National Police. Although the Habeas Corpus had been favorably resolved in two instances, on February 7, 1991, the Supreme Court of Justice declared the decision null and void. Faced with this situation of …
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. …
In December 1990, the Chillccahuico mass grave was found, along with the discovery of a clandestine cemetery apparently used by PNP groups and the 18 people murdered in Chumbivilcas. These events created a context of concern about the government's respect for human rights. As of that date, 4,800 cases of …
The government issued Supreme Decree 171-90-PCM, which specified that the actions of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces and National Police in the zones declared in a state of emergency were subject to military justice. This decree established that police and Armed Forces personnel accredited in the emergency zones would …
The government issued Supreme Decree 171-90-PCM, which specified that the actions of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces and National Police in areas declared in a state of emergency were subject to military justice. This decree stipulated that police officers and Armed Forces personnel accredited in the emergency zones remained …
The head of the 14th Provincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office of Lima filed a criminal complaint against the Chief of the National Police General PNP Victor Manuel Alvarado Plasencia, the Chief of the DIRCOTE General PNP Enrique Oblitas Jaén, the Commissioner of the San Juan de Miraflores Police Station Major PNP …
The Congress enacts a law that supersedes Supreme Decree 171-90-PCM that had been issued in December 1990. This supreme decree established that the actions of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces and National Police in areas declared in a state of emergency were subject to military justice, and provided that …
On May 14, 1991, the Sinchis (special forces of the Peruvian police) entered the community of Gloriabamba, located half an hour from Puerto Ocopa. This operation was led by three teachers who collaborated with the police. The Sinchis' entry was preceded by bombings, which alerted the population of the neighboring …
On June 1, 1991, members of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) captured six members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) in the district of Pueblo Libre, Lima. This operation took place one day after another important capture in the Lima district of Jesus Maria, where Alberto Galvez Olaechea, leader …
On June 19, 1991, a day commemorated as an important date by Sendero Luminoso, an attack took place that led to a police operation. Julio, a psychology student at San Marcos and a professor, was arrested as a suspect along with other people. In the Mirones police station they were …
On August 22, 1991, the long teachers' strike was suspended. According to the newspaper La República, 2,000 teachers were arrested, twenty disappeared and 15 were murdered. The SUTEP Human Rights Secretariat attributed the deaths, which occurred in towns in a state of emergency, to the PCP-SL (5), paramilitary forces (4), …
A woman was arrested in the San Luis Urbanization in the district of Salamanca, department of Lima, on November 1, 1991. She was later transferred to the DINCOTE where she was constantly groped by the police. The witness's account shows how since her arrival at the DINCOTE she was beaten …
On November 8, 1991, Decree Law No. 741, called 'Law for the Recognition of the Self-Defense Committees', was enacted. This legal framework accepted the existence of multiple and diverse organizations of the civilian population, especially in rural areas, whose main function was to fight against subversion. According to the decree, …
A female declarant narrates what happened during the interrogation to which she was subjected at the Comas Police Station, where she was subjected to groping, attempted rape and forced nudity in 1992. The victim said: "they began to grope me, to touch me, to try to rape me, to try …
A woman was arrested by personnel from the 28th of July Police Station in 1992. The detention occurred in the district of Villa El Salvador, province and department of Lima. This case is part of a documented pattern of sexual violence against women detained by police forces during the internal …
At 8:30 in the morning of May 6, 1992, Juan Bardales Rengifo became the first victim of the Castro Castro operation when he was shot while struggling with a policeman near the gate of the lookout point. The inmate died as a result of the shot.
Between May 6 and 9, 1992, the National Police and the Army carried out the operation Mudanza 1 to transfer inmates from Pavilion 1-A. The militarized intervention resulted in the extrajudicial execution of 42 inmates and hundreds of wounded. The forces of order used explosives, gases, long-range rifles and grenades. …
Between May 6 and 9, 1992, the government decided to retake by force the control of the wards where the accused and convicted terrorists of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso were being held. On May 6, members of the National Police entered by surprise and in the face of resistance used firearms …
During the police operation 'Mudanza I', whose objective was to transfer all the inmates from Castro Castro prison to Santa Monica prison, Yovanka Pardavé Trujillo and Tito Valle Travesaño, who had been imprisoned since July 1991, lost their lives. Both had been identified as Shining Path PCP militants linked to …
The police operation known as "Mudanza Uno" (Move One) began in the Shining Path wards of the Miguel Castro Castro prison in order to transfer more than 100 women to the Santa Monica prison. Given the refusal of the PCP-SL inmates and the resistance, the operation lasted four days and …
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 …
María Pupetela Villegas Regalado, one of the first inmates wounded in the May 6 operation, died of septicemia on May 11, 1992 at the Central Police Health Hospital. The Necropsy Protocol No. 2077-92 indicates that her body had 8 bullet wounds, all in the upper part, as a result of …
The day after the attack against INCAFOR, police officers arbitrarily detained ten residents of San Ignacio: Wigberto Vásquez Vásquez, Plácido Alvarado Campos, Víctor Morales Labán, Crisanto Velásquez Flores, Guillermo Granda Rodríguez, Guillermo Oyola Cornejo, Javier García Huamán, Benjamín García Huamán, Daniel Cruz Bautista and Samuel Huamán Huamán. Several of them …
Ten popular leaders from the province of Santa were unjustly detained, tortured and accused of subversion by a group of drunken policemen, without explanation. This case exemplifies the abuses committed by the forces of law and order against social leaders.
On the night of July 27, 1992, businessman Samuel Dyer Ampudia was illegally detained at Jorge Chávez Airport by Major PNP Migdonio Torres Aliaga by order of Colonel PNP Víctor Arcila Dupp. He was handed over to PNP Colonel Carlos Domínguez Solís of the SIN, who transferred him to the …
Decree Law 25744 established rules applicable during the police investigation of the crime of treason. This norm established an unconstitutional extension of the term of police detention, prescribing that the National Police of Peru could carry out preventive detention of the presumed implicated for a term longer than fifteen days, …
The medical examination performed by the Peruvian National Police on María Magdalena Monteza Benavides resulted in the presence of small ecchymosis on the left knee anterior face, considered as a recent injury, with no old injuries observed. Forensic Medicine Report No. 11605/92 concluded that the person presented signs of recent …
The Mental Health Service of the Police Hospital prepared a report on the incidence of psychiatric disorders in the Luis N. Saenz Central Hospital of the National Police of Peru, in relation to social violence during the period 1993-1997. The second conclusion of the report points to a significant increase …
In Lambayeque, 17 members of the Frente de Defensa de los Bosques de San Ignacio are victims of torture by the Peruvian National Police. This case represents the repression against environmental and community defense organizations.
A female witness was arrested in Chimbote on April 18, 1993 and subsequently transferred to the Police Office in Huacho. During her detention, she was held in a dark room where she was subjected to interrogation. This case is part of the systematic pattern of sexual violence and torture documented …
On May 2, 1993, in the town of Huamansalla, district of Huamachuco, province of Sanchez Carrion, the Peruvian National Police killed six members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in an armed confrontation. This event occurred in the context of the counter-subversive offensive that intensified since 1992, after the capture of Abimael …
On June 10, 1993, the peasant patrols of Rodiobamba, in the district of Cachachi, Cajabamba province, received weapons in the city of Cajamarca from the Peruvian Army. This event was part of the counter-subversive strategy implemented since 1992, when the Peruvian Army encouraged the creation of Self-Defense Committees promoted and …
Police intervene in the district of El Porvenir, Trujillo, where they detain and torture young Jessica Rosa Chávez Ruiz (17 years old), worker Pedro Javier Cruz Guzmán (28 years old) and Héctor Rodríguez (28 years old), who were participating in a social activity in the Víctor Raúl Haya de la …
On November 7, 1993, a confrontation took place in La Merced between law enforcement forces and presumed MRTA subversives. During the confrontation, two presumed MRTA subversives were killed and an officer of the Peruvian National Police was wounded. This confrontation occurred in the context of the last year of intense …
Decree Law 25744, enacted in Peru, established an unconstitutional extension of the police detention period for the crimes of terrorism and treason. This law allowed the Peruvian National Police to preventively detain suspects for more than fifteen days, with the possibility of extending the term, which was criticized for violating …
On December 25, 1994, in the town of Muyoc, province of San Marcos, department of Cajamarca, the police killed three members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This confrontation took place in the context of the decline of Shining Path violence in the region, after the capture of Abimael Guzmán in 1992 …
On July 26, 1995, an explosion occurred in Huancavelica that killed seven policemen. Among the victims was a major of the Peruvian National Police (PNP). The event occurred in the context of the political violence that affected the department of Huancavelica during the 1990s. This attack was part of the …
The television program La Revista Dominical made public an accusation against seven PNP generals who allegedly misused real estate seized from drug traffickers. The accusation holds the PNP Director General, Victor Alva Plasencia, responsible. The Minister of the Interior, General EP Juan Briones Davila, expresses his support for Alva Plasencia's …
In August 1996, the police managed to capture Camilo Santos Vera, also known as Pedro Sánchez Flores or "Camilo", in the city of Cajabamba. This police intervention was the result of police intelligence work, where the information provided by some repentants was crucial. The capture of this important Shining Path …
Carmen Marcelino Sandoval Loayza was arrested in Curgos, Santiago de Chuco, accused of being a suspected Shining Path member. This arrest took place in her home, the same place where in 1986 there had been a confrontation between the Peruvian National Police and five members of the PCP-SL. In that …
Oscar Ramirez Duran, known by the pseudonym 'comrade Feliciano', was captured by the police on July 14, 1999 in the district of Cochas, a few kilometers from the city of Huancayo. Ramirez Duran had been designated as secretary and political commander of the Central Regional Committee of the PCP-SL since …
On April 13, 2000, the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concluded that the Peruvian State, through police officers from the district of Chuschi supported by military personnel from the Pampa Cangallo Military Base, detained Manuel Pacotaype Chaupín, Martín Cayllahua Galindo, Marcelo Cabana Tucno and Isaías Huamán Vila on March …
Interview conducted by the CVR with retired Police Health personnel in the city of Lima. This interview is part of the documentation on the psychological and mental health effects on members of the police forces during the internal armed conflict. The testimony is mentioned in the context of an analysis …
