Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
On December 10, 1981, an attack was carried out against the police post of Totos in the province of Cangallo. This attack was part of a series of sustained PCP-SL offensives against the police during 1981, with the objective of pushing back the forces of law and order and generating …
In December 1981, in the town of Sacsamarca, Professor Alejandro Avilés García was murdered by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. He was accused of being a 'snitch', that is, of collaborating with the authorities or providing information on subversive activities. This assassination occurred in the context of sustained PCP-SL attacks against the …
Antonio Ayerbe Flores, a university student, was murdered on October 23, 1981 in the department of Cuzco. This event occurred during the early years of political violence in the region, in the context of the initial actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the department. The assassination took place in a …
On October 12, 1981, the Peruvian government decreed a state of emergency in five of the seven provinces of the department of Ayacucho: Huamanga, Huanta, La Mar, Cangallo and Victor Fajardo. This measure was established in response to the increase in PCP-Sendero Luminoso actions, particularly after the attack on the …
In September 1981, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso launched a bomb against the headquarters of the Prelature of Juli. This attack occurred one month after the attack on the Palermo Rural Institute of the Maryknoll Fathers, near Juli, in August 1981. Both assaults provoked a strong wave of indignation among the local …
The PCP-SL attacked a Civil Guard patrol boat in the locality of Ayaviri, province of Melgar, department of Puno. This attack is part of the first armed actions of the PCP-SL in the department of Puno during 1981. The event is inscribed in the context of the initial phase of …
On August 25, 1981, detonations were heard in Huancapi, Fajardo province. This event is part of a series of sustained PCP-SL attacks against the police during 1981, which generated a 'power vacuum' in the countryside. Attacks on police posts in the area included Vischongo in January, Mollebamba in January, and …
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, …
On May 18, 1981, the PCP-SL carried out an attack with dynamite against the premises of the Agrarian Bank in Cajabamba. This was the first violent action of the PCP-SL registered in the province of Cajabamba. The attack consisted of the explosion of a dynamite firecracker in the bank's facilities. …
On April 26, 1981, Edmundo Cox Beuzeville was denounced in the city of Sicuani as responsible for 27 attacks. This denunciation took place in the context of the first years of the internal armed conflict, when the PCP-Sendero Luminoso began its actions in the department of Cuzco. On May 26 …
On April 21, 1981, there was an attack against the police post of Luricocha, in the province of Huanta, Ayacucho. This attack was part of a series of actions by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against police posts during 1981. It was one of the first significant attacks against police installations in …
On January 26, 1981, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Superior Court of Justice of Puno. This attack was part of the first violent actions of the subversive group in the department of Puno, which were characterized by dynamite attacks against institutions and representatives of the State. The attack on the …
On January 24, 1981, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a harassment attack against the 27 de Noviembre barracks located in the city of Cuzco. This attack was part of the initial period of violence (1980-1983) in the Southern Andes, characterized by propaganda actions and bombings against various public and private …
On January 21, 1981, the Civil Guard post of Mollebamba in the province of Cangallo was assaulted by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This attack was part of a series of sustained offensives against the police during 1981, with the aim of pushing back the forces of law and order and generating …
On January 19, 1981, an explosive charge went off in the police station located in the Santa Ana neighborhood of Huancavelica. This attack was part of the first actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the department of Huancavelica, which had begun its operations in July 1980 with the demolition of …
On January 10, 1981, the PCP-SL attacked the Vischongo Civil Guard post in the province of Vilcashuamán. This attack was part of a sustained strategy of the PCP-SL during 1981 to attack the police, pushing them back and generating a 'power vacuum' in the countryside. The objective was to leave …
In mid-1981, some strangers arrived in Uchuraccay and introduced themselves to the villagers as businessmen or looking for work. The strangers visited the school and managed to befriend some families, gaining their support and becoming compadres by lifting newborns off the ground with several villagers. In this way, they managed …
In 1981, a population census was conducted in the community of Uchuraccay. According to Professor Alejandrina de la Cruz Llamocca, who was in charge of that year's census in the community, the population of Uchuraccay was approximately 470 inhabitants. Of this total, about 30% could read and write. This census …
In 1981, community member Emiterio Huamán was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Oronqoy. This assassination had immediate consequences on the dynamics of the conflict in the area. Previously, the Forces of Order and the Mollebamba ronderos had been installed in Oronqoy for several months, but later …
In 1981, the Forces of Order installed themselves in the town of Oronqoy together with the ronderos of Mollebamba for several months. This installation occurred in the context of the beginning of subversive activities of the PCP-SL in the area, where subversive teachers had begun indoctrinating students in the Oronqoy …
The 1981 national census recorded that the population of Metropolitan Lima reached 4,835,793 inhabitants, representing 27.2% of the country's total population (17,762,231 inhabitants). This census documented the sustained growth of the capital and showed that 31 out of every 100 young people lived in Lima, compared to 22 out of …
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 the initial period of political violence in the southern Andes (1980-1983), the first two deaths were recorded in the department of Cuzco in 1981. This period was characterized by few attacks and acts of sabotage in the region. In Cuzco specifically, it was a period of propaganda actions and …
In 1981, 37 Quechua-speaking deaths and disappearances were recorded. The Shining Path PCP was responsible for 27 victims, State agents for 6, and 4 cases were attributed to undetermined perpetrators or others. The internal armed conflict was still in its early stages.
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Civil Guard barracks in Sicuani, capital of the province of Canchis. This attack was part of a series of initial PCP-SL actions in the area, which also included damage to the railroad and the Municipality between January and May 1981. On May 26 of that …
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