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 29, 1982, Supreme Decree 068-82 IN was issued ordering the Armed Forces to assume internal control of the Department of Ayacucho. The command was assigned to General Roberto Clemente Noel Moral. This measure was taken in the context of increased violence by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and marked the …
On December 27, 1982, the inhabitants of the Maraypata annex in Churcampa clashed with a group of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso who wanted to punish them for having formed peasant patrols. In the confrontation, several subversives died and were buried nearby. This event represents one of the first cases of organized …
On December 26, 1982, President Fernando Belaunde Terry issued an ultimatum to the Shining Path. This occurred in a context of escalating violence in Metropolitan Lima, where the PCP-SL had intensified its subversive actions. During that year there had been multiple attacks, including general blackouts in Lima and Callao due …
On December 23, 1982, a contingent of PCP-SL militants assaulted the Colqui mine, located in the district of Huancavelica. During this assault, the subversives seized 1500 sticks of dynamite. This action was part of a broader PCP-SL strategy that included sabotage to the Mantaro electric transmission network, the destruction of …
On December 12, 1982, it was reported that the PCP-SL was intensifying its actions in the districts of Paucarbamba (province of Huancavelica) and Colcabamba (province of Tayacaja). The actions included dynamite attacks and death threats against local authorities. This intensification was part of the initial expansion of PCP-SL operations in …
On December 11, 1982, in the middle of a public act, the provincial mayor of Huamanga, Víctor Jorge Jáuregui, a Popular Action (AP) militant, was wounded by two presumed members of the PCP-SL. The attackers were driving a motorcycle from where they shot him three times in the face. This …
On December 6, 1982, PCP-SL militants attacked the police post in the district of Anco in the province of Churcampa. This attack was part of a series of harassments of police posts that increased at the end of 1982 in the provinces of Tayacaja and Churcampa. The attacks were aimed …
In December 1982, the PCP-SL completely razed the Qaracha Communal Farm, which was owned by Huancasancos. This event had important repercussions at the regional level. The razing of the farm was part of the PCP-SL's strategy of attacking not only police posts but also symbols of economic power and communal …
The PCP-SL celebrated Abimael Guzmán Reinoso's birthday with simultaneous attacks in Lima and Ayacucho during December 1982. This wave of attacks was part of an escalation of violence that characterized the end of that year. The attacks occurred in a context of growing terrorist activity that led the Armed Forces …
In December 1982, the PCP-SL assassinated twelve people in Ccarhuaurán, Santillana district, Huanta province. This event is part of the PCP-SL's strategy to liberate the countryside through threats, dismissals and assassinations of local authorities and civilian population. The rondas of Qarhuahurán (as also mentioned in the text) were among the …
In December 1982, the PCP-SL assassinated the president and lieutenant governor of Huaychao, Eusebio Ccente and Pedro Rimachi, in the middle of the town square. They were accused of representing state power. This assassination occurred almost at the same time as the assassination of the president of the community of …
In December 1982, the PCP-SL assassinated the president of the community of Uchuraccay, Alejandro Huamán Leandro. This assassination was part of a broader PCP-SL strategy to eliminate local authorities representing state power. In the same month, the PCP-SL also assassinated the president and lieutenant governor of Huaychao, Eusebio Ccente and …
Valentín Loayza Cuya was kidnapped in December 1982 in the Tiquihua/Hualla area, Fajardo province. During 1983 and 1984, Tiquihua was under the control of the 'unknown' (a term used to refer to the PCP-Sendero Luminoso). As a result of Shining Path control in the area, military bases were established in …
In December 1982, the Armed Forces (FFAA) were charged with conducting the counter-subversive struggle in the department of Ayacucho. This event marked a crucial turning point in the Peruvian internal armed conflict. From that moment on, there was a notable escalation of violence, especially from 1983 onwards, reaching its highest …
On November 25, 1982, a peasant farmer from Taca, Fajardo province, was murdered accused of 'snitching'. This murder was part of a series of systematic executions that the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out against authorities and people considered 'enemies' during that period. The event was part of the Shining Path's strategy …
On November 25, 1982, post office employees in Huancapi, Fajardo province, were killed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The victims were accused of 'soplonaje' (being informants). This murder was part of a series of executions that the PCP-SL carried out during November 1982 against authorities and people considered 'enemies' in the …
On November 10, 1982, a teacher from Huancaraylla was murdered by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This murder was part of a series of systematic executions of authorities and people accused of 'snitching' that the PCP-SL carried out during that period in the province of Fajardo. The assassination occurred in the context …
Towards the first days of November 1982, a group of PCP-SL militants arrived in the districts of Soras, Larcay and Paucaray. They carried out indoctrination work with schoolchildren in the area. Over time, these schoolchildren expanded their network of contacts with other students from the nearby communities of San Pedro …
Alejandro Huamán, president of the Uchuraccay community, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in late November or early December 1982. The murder was in retaliation for having led the expulsion of Shining Path militants from the community in October 1982. He was also punished for having removed and burned a …
In November 1982, the Peruvian government extended the state of emergency in the departments of Ayacucho and Apurímac due to the wave of violence unleashed by the Shining Path. This measure had been initially implemented in March 1982 when guarantees were suspended in the province of Andahuaylas. The extension of …
During the celebration of the feast of the Virgin of the Rosary in Uchuraccay, the Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso placed a red flag on one of the community's hills. Alejandro Huamán, president of the community of Uchuraccay, took out the flag and publicly burned it. This act of defiance …
On October 4, 1982, PCP-SL militants attacked the police post in the district of San Miguel de Mayocc. This attack was part of a series of harassments of police posts that increased at the end of 1982 in the districts of Churcampa and Tayacaja. The attacks were aimed at eliminating …
On September 23, 1982, a teacher was murdered in Pomacocha by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The teacher was executed after refusing to read a subversive proclamation demanded by the Shining Path militants. This murder was part of a series of executions of authorities and people accused of "snitching" or opposing the …
On September 22, 1982, a group of peasants from Chuschi were killed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. These peasants had been accused of abigeos (cattle rustling). This event was part of a series of selective assassinations that the PCP-SL carried out during 1982 against authorities, villagers and people accused of various …
A PCP-SL commando, led by an armed woman wearing a black hood, entered the Carlos Wiese school in Comas during the school's anniversary celebration. At the time, 1,500 students were gathered in the school's courtyard. The members of the commando launched subversive slogans and made a call to armed struggle …
On September 8, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an assault on the Huancapi prison in the province of Fajardo. This event took place in the context of a series of armed actions aimed at expelling the police from rural areas and consolidating the territorial control of the PCP-SL in …
In September 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the Nieto Cisneros brothers in the town of Matara, district of Accocro, province of Huamanga. This event was part of the initial strategy of the PCP-SL to eliminate local authorities and people considered enemies of their revolutionary project. Subsequently, in May 1983, Matara …
On August 22, 1982, the third and most devastating attack against the Vilcashuamán police post took place. A group of armed hikers bombed the police post, resulting in the death of seven policemen and several wounded. This was the worst attack on the Vilcashuamán police post since the attacks on …
On August 22, 1982, the PCP-SL attacked the Vilcashuaman police post, killing four policemen. This attack represented the high point of the panorama of abandonment of police posts in the region. The event was part of the PCP-SL's successful strategy between 1980 and 1982 that combined threats, assassinations, sabotage actions …
On August 22, 1982, a group of armed hikers bombed the Vilcashuamán police post, resulting in the death of seven policemen and several wounded. This was the worst attack on the Vilcashuamán police post since the attacks of March 31 and July 25 of the same year. The morning after …
The Vilcashuamán police post was attacked and 7 policemen were killed after 5 hours of combat.
On August 20, 1982, a State of Emergency was declared in Lima and Callao, after it had already been decreed in some places in the interior of the country. This measure marked the beginning of a series of attacks in the capital and was part of the State's response to …
On August 18, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso simultaneously attacked the Civil Guard posts of Orurillo and Umachiri, located in the province of Melgar, department of Puno. This attack was part of the initial actions of the Shining Path in the department of Puno during the period 1980-1983. The attack on …
On August 9, 1982, a villager from Llusita, Fajardo province, was murdered after a summary trial. This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to 'beat the countryside' by eliminating authorities and people considered 'enemies'. The event occurred in the context of a series of assassinations of authorities and villagers …
Teófilo Pacheco Quispe, a member of the MRTA (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru), died on August 9, 1982 in a confrontation with the police in the district of Surquillo, Lima. This event occurred in the context of a growing wave of political violence in the country, during the month in which …
The province of Andahuaylas was declared an emergency zone on August 6, 1982 due to the increase in the actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the region. This province, which borders the department of Ayacucho, was part of the main Regional Committee of the PCP-SL, made up of the departments …
On August 3, 1982, more than a hundred armed individuals assaulted the Allpachaca hacienda, belonging to the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University (UNSCH). This attack was part of the escalation of political violence in Ayacucho during that period. The assault took place in the context of the military campaigns …
During the first week of August 1982, a detachment of the PCP-SL attacked the Allpachaca farm, property of the University of Huamanga, which functioned as an experimental and practice center for students. The farm was razed to the ground by the Shining Pathists, who considered that from there "imperialism was …
On July 31, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso executed a simultaneous sabotage against the electrical infrastructure in Vilcashuamán. In this coordinated action, both the Vischongo mini-hydroelectric plant and the Vilcashuamán power plant were destroyed. This attack was part of the Shining Path strategy of sabotaging public infrastructure, which was considered an …
On July 31, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out simultaneous sabotage against public infrastructure in the province of Vilcashuamán. On that day, the Vischongo mini-hydroelectric plant and the Vilcashuamán power plant were simultaneously destroyed. This attack was part of the Shining Path's strategy of sabotaging public infrastructure, which was considered …
On July 28, 1982, the second attack on the Vilcashuamán police post by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso took place. This attack was part of a series of assaults on police posts that the PCP-SL carried out during 1982 in the area. The Vilcashuamán post had been attacked for the first time …
On July 22, 1982, subversives of the PCP-SL threw Molotov cocktails against the materials warehouse of the SAIS "Huancavelica". This attack was part of the initial actions of the PCP-SL in the department of Huancavelica during the first years of the internal armed conflict. The attack was specifically directed against …
On July 14, 1982, the governor of Cayara, in the province of Fajardo, was assassinated as part of the PCP-SL's strategy to "beat the countryside" by assassinating authorities and "enemies" in general. This assassination is part of a series of violent actions that the PCP-SL carried out during 1982 against …
On July 11, 1982, in the town of Hualla, in the province of Victor Fajardo, Ayacucho, the mayor and a local merchant were murdered. The victims were accused of being informers for the authorities. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of political violence in Ayacucho during 1982, …
On July 11, 1982, a group of subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso took the town of Ñuñungayo, located in the district of Vilca, province of Huancavelica. During this raid, the Shining Path militants assaulted the village's communal store. This action is part of the first "town seizures" that the PCP-SL …
On July 9, 1982, miners from Canarias, in the province of Victor Fajardo, were killed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The victims were accused of being informers. The Canarias mine played an important role in the area for a long time as a supplier of dynamite for the subversives. This assassination …
On July 6, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the town of Paras, in the province of Cangallo. This event took place in the context of a series of raids on villages and harassment of authorities that characterized the Shining Path's strategy during that year. The incursion to Paras occurred days …
On July 2, 1982, the towns of Chuschi and Canchacancha in the province of Cangallo were taken over. This action was part of a series of continuous raids on villages and harassment of authorities carried out by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso during that period. The seizure of these towns took place …
In July 1982, five hooded men in civilian clothes arrived in the town of Hualla, in the province of Fajardo. The attackers identified and assassinated local authorities in the town square. This event is part of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso's strategy to 'beat the countryside' by assassinating authorities and 'enemies' in …
Ten hooded attackers, disguised and armed with machine guns, assaulted the towns of Chuschi and Cachacancha in the province of Cangallo, Ayacucho. This attack took place in the context of the military campaign known as 'Batir I', which took place from July 1982 to October 1982. The assault was part …
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