In mid-July 1982, the Peasant Federation of the Apurimac River Valley (FECVRA) decided to enter directly into the commercialization of the valley's products, seeking to break the monopoly of the large traders. This initiative represented an effort by the peasant organization to improve the economic conditions of its members through …
In July 1982, the deputy mayor of Santa Rosa died while in police custody. This event occurred in the context of the onset of violence in the Apurimac River Valley, during the period of intensification of PCP-Sendero Luminoso actions and the repressive response of the forces of law and order. …
On October 29, 1982, a group of PCP-SL subversives assaulted and looted the store of one of the main kube hoarders in Santa Rosa. This assault occurred in a context where the Peasant Federation of the Apurimac River Valley (FECVRA) had decided to enter directly into the commercialization of products …
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 …
Máximo Yangali and his son Rómulo, members of the Ccorisoto community in Huancavelica, were accused of being abusive landowners and cattle thieves by the neighboring community of Santa Rosa. On October 8, 1983, they were taken by members of the PCP-SL to Santa Rosa, where a 'popular trial' was held, …
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 …
In July 1984, the PCP-SL kidnapped and murdered villagers from Chontaccocha, in the Santa Rosa district. The attack occurred after the villagers participated in a census, despite previous warnings from the PCP-SL against doing so. This event was part of the Shining Path's strategy to punish communities that collaborated with …
According to PCP-SL documents, the most numerous and most dangerous paramilitary bands emerged on both banks of the Apurimac River during July 1984, with most forming in January 1985. These gangs grew too rapidly due to the increased concentration of enemy troops in the area. The gangs were made up …
On July 27, 1984, approximately 60 members of the Shining Path (PCP-SL) attacked a church in Santa Rosa, La Mar, Peru. They surrounded the church, launched dynamite, and fired at the evangelicals inside, resulting in the deaths of six evangelicals and one Catholic, with seven others injured. The attack was …
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 September 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the town of Huanchi, Santa Rosa district, and killed 9 community members. This event was part of a series of attacks perpetrated by the Shining Path in the Apurimac River Valley during 1984, a year of intense violence in the area. The attack …
In September 1984, law enforcement forces murdered 19 community members in San Pedro, a town in the Santa Rosa district. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of violence in the Apurimac River Valley, during the period in which the Armed Forces and the DECAS (Counter-Subversive Civil Defense) …
In October 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed 7 community members in the town of Huanchi, Santa Rosa district, in the Apurimac River Valley. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of Shining Path violence in the area, during the period in which the PCP-SL sought to consolidate its …
In November 1984, the PCP-SL carried out an armed raid in the town of Huanchi, Santa Rosa district. During this attack, 9 people were killed. This event was part of a series of Shining Path incursions in the Apurimac River Valley during 1984, a period in which the Shining Path …
By mid-1985, the Shining Path was in full retreat in the Apurimac River Valley and the Armed Forces together with the DECAS (Defensa Civil Contrasubversiva) had gained control of the valley. The Shining Path themselves recognized their defeat by the 'mesnadas' in the VRA, admitting that the unconsolidated support bases …
In August 1985, the Peruvian army executed 21 people in Santa Rosa, a district in the province of La Mar. This event occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations in the Apurimac River Valley (VRA), an area where the Armed Forces and the DECAS (Counter-Subversive Civil Defense) had gained control …
In December 1985, land seizures began, triggering one of the most important peasant mobilizations in the history of Puno, leading to a new agrarian reform. On December 13, 1985, about 4,000 peasants from the districts of Santa Rosa and Macari, led by the United Federation of Peasants of Melgar, peacefully …
On December 13, 1985, about 4,000 peasants from the districts of Santa Rosa and Macarí, led by the Melgar Peasant Unitary Federation, peacefully initiated the recovery of 10,000 hectares of the Rural Enterprise of Social Property "Kunurana". This action triggered one of the most important peasant mobilizations in the history …
On February 7, 1986, the President of the Republic, Alan Garcia, announced in a message to the nation the "restructuring and resizing of the associative enterprises". This announcement came a little more than a month after nearly 4,000 peasants from the districts of Santa Rosa and Macarí peacefully initiated the …
In October 1986, a group associated with Sendero Luminoso raided the Santa Rosa (Cobriza) mining unit, stealing all its explosive materials. This incident led to the permanent closure of the mine, resulting in the loss of employment for hundreds of workers in the area. Following the raid, there was an …
In October 1986, a Shining Path group raided the Santa Rosa mining unit located in Cobriza, Huancavelica. During the attack, the subversives looted all of the mine's explosive material, including dynamite, primers and guides. This theft of explosive material had immediate consequences in the region, since after this looting, dynamite …
In October 1986, a Shining Path column raided the Santa Rosa mining unit, located in Cobriza, Huancavelica. During this action, Shining Path members looted all the explosive material available in the mine, including dynamite, percussion caps and guides. This raid was part of a series of PCP-SL attacks against mining …
At the beginning of 1989, the PCP-SL attacked the Laive Production Unit, destroying the milk processing machinery. The neighboring communities of Palmayoc, Palaco, Llamapsillón and Chongos Altos, spurred on by the Shining Path, ended up looting and distributing goods from these production units. All the facilities of the LAIVE Sub-Unit …
In 1989, individuals in Peru were subjected to forced disappearance and torture by police and military forces. Victims were detained under false pretenses, tortured, and held incommunicado in various locations, including Chalhuanca, Santa Rosa, and Abancay. Despite being innocent, they were accused of being terrorists and suffered severe physical and …
On July 8, 1989, hikers dynamited an electrical substation near the Santa Rosa housing complex in La Oroya. As a direct consequence of this attack, the copper and lead refineries of Centromín Perú were paralyzed. The attack also affected the local electricity supply in the city. This attack was part …
On August 9, 1989, a group of 200 ronderos left Santa Rosa for Tambo, La Mar, on the heights of the Huamanga-San Francisco highway, in an action called 'Operation Hawk'. The reason for this operation was to reorganize the patrols in the highland districts of La Mar province. The authorities …
On August 9, 1989, a group of 200 ronderos left Santa Rosa for Tambo in an action called operation Halcón. The reason for this operation was to reorganize the rondas in the highland districts of La Mar province, whose authorities, faced with the advance of the PCP-SL, had sent a …
In November 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated 4 ronderos belonging to the Santa Rosa peasant patrol, district of Ayna, province of La Mar. This attack took place in the context of the Shining Path offensive against the Self-Defense Committees and the peasant patrols that had organized to resist their presence …
On July 30, 1991, there was a confrontation between the 'ronderos' (members of the Self-Defense Committees) of Santa Rosa and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the province of Grau, Apurímac. This confrontation is framed in the period of counter-subversive strategies (1989-1992), when the Armed Forces established an alliance with the peasantry …
In July 1993, peasant ronderos from Santa Rosa detained a group of people in the context of the internal armed conflict. During this event, 4 people were detained and 21 people were killed by the ronderos. This event is part of the period of violence between the counter-subversive peasant patrols …
On September 11, 1993, a group of 100 terrorists, all colonists, attempted to invade San Fernando de Meritori from three fronts: Esmeralda, Santa Rosa, and Delta. The local Rondas Campesinas and Nativas defended their community, resulting in the death of 11 terrorists. Later, the Peruvian Army intervened, detaining several individuals …
