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, 1984, 22 peasants from various communities of La Mar (Ayacucho) were killed by the so-called rondas or paramilitary groups against members of the PCP-SL. This event occurred in the context of the escalation of violence that characterized 1984 in the emergency zone of Ayacucho. The rondas, also …
The Minister of the Interior, General EP Óscar Brush Noel, made a public call inviting the militants of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) to lay down their arms and surrender to the courts. This invitation took place in the context of an escalation of political violence …
On December 23, 1984, a column of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso surprised the villagers of Pampaccoris, in the province of Tayacaja, department of Huancavelica. The attack was perpetrated as revenge against the villagers because they had helped the Armed Forces in a previous operation. This event was part of the escalation …
On December 5, 1984, in the district of Puca, province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho, 120 members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 22 ronderos. This attack was part of the escalation of violence that characterized 1984 in the emergency zone of Ayacucho. The event occurred in the context of confrontations …
In December 1984, soldiers from the Hualla base detained community members from the district. The victims were subjected to torture and later disappeared. This event was part of a context of generalized violence in the province of Víctor Fajardo during 1984, a year in which there were multiple murders by …
On December 1, 1984, the Minister of the Interior, General EP Oscar Brush Noel, made public statements affirming that all Peruvians should defend the supreme values of God, homeland and family against communist terrorism. In his declarations to the newspaper El Diario, published on December 2, Brush Noel stated that …
After a state of emergency was decreed in the province of Daniel Alcides Carrion in December 1984, the Army established a military base in the district of Yanahuanca in mid-December. In the last days of December 1984, another counter-subversive base was installed in Chinche Tingo. The military presence and the …
On November 29, 1984, a national strike was called by the General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) and the National Unitary Command of Struggle (Comando Nacional Unitario de Lucha). This strike took place in a context of intense political violence and escalation of the internal armed conflict in the country. …
On November 26, 1984, the Shining Path clashed with the Civil Guard in Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, department of Cuzco. This confrontation occurred in the context of an intensification of Shining Path actions in the Apurimac river valley and surrounding areas. On the same day there was an attack …
On November 24, 1984, there was a confrontation with the Vilcabamba police. At the same time, that same day, a combined police, military and self-defense committee operation was carried out, apparently coming from the province of La Mar, in the department of Ayacucho, which disappeared the community of Lucmahuayco, assassinating …
On November 21, 1984, members of the PCP-SL attacked the town of Bayobamba in the province of Huanta, Ayacucho. During the attack, the subversives decapitated Lieutenant Governor Silverio Ramirez and ten other villagers. Among the victims were three children, which shows the brutality of the attack. This event was part …
Relatives of Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, leader of the PCP-SL, reportedly contacted French diplomatic officials. The purpose of this contact was to inquire about the possibility of political asylum for their relative. This event occurred in a context of intensified political violence and operations against the PCP-SL. The contact with French …
On November 10, 1984, the military gathered the entire population of San Francisco at the Quimbiri airport. On the second floor of an adjoining house was Major "Vic" with a hooded person, obviously a captured hiker. This event marked a significant moment in the military presence in the Apurimac River …
In November 1984, law enforcement forces set fire to the village of Oronqoy and killed 29 community members accused of being subversives. This event was part of a series of violent raids carried out by the Peruvian Army and the civilian defenses of Mollebamba in the Oreja de Perro area. …
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 …
In November 1984, a national strike was held in Peru, the last of its kind before the end of the social truce in May 1987. This strike took place in the context of an economic crisis that had severely affected Peruvian industrialists since 1983. The protest measure took place during …
Luis Pércovich Roca resigned as Minister of the Interior on October 12, 1984. He was replaced in the Interior portfolio by General EP Óscar Brush Noel. Pércovich had been a controversial figure during his tenure, being criticized by leftist sectors who accused him of promoting dirty war methods. His departure …
The Izquierda Unida (IU) formula for the presidential elections was approved in the early morning of October 9, 1984. The formula included the presidential candidacy of Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, with the vice-presidencies of Jorge del Prado Chávez and Luis Nieto. However, this formula barely lasted 36 hours and was reformulated, …
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 October 1984, 22 community members from Callqui Alta, in the district of Iguain, province of Huanta, were kidnapped and disappeared. This event occurred in the context of intense military repression in the area, where the Marine Infantry had established its base of operations in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta. …
In October 1984, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 16 people in the Ayna district. The bodies of the victims were found on the banks of the San Francisco River. This event was part of the escalation of violence that characterized 1984 in the Apurimac River Valley, a period in …
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 …
On September 29, 1984, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso disguised as police officers assassinated a group of peasants in Chilcayoc. This attack took place in a context of growing community opposition to Shining Path actions. Previously, on August 13 of the same year, another group of Chilcayoc community members on …
On September 28, 1984, the oral trial of the Uchuraccay trial began with great expectation in the courtroom of the Superior Court of Ayacucho. The only three defendants present were the detained peasants Dionisio Morales Pérez, Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe, who were Quechua speakers and required interpreters …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry described terrorism as 'narco-terrorist mafia' on September 16, 1984. This statement came days after the Minister of the Interior, Luis Pércovich Roca, considered on September 6 that there was an 'intimate collaboration between the Italian mafia dedicated to drug trafficking and the terrorism practiced in the …
On September 14, 1984, an attack was carried out against a delegation of the Peruvian Investigative Police (PIP) in the Lima district of Villa Maria del Triunfo. This attack was part of a wave of terrorist attacks that again affected the capital during that month. The context of this 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 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, 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, …
During September 1984, there was an attack on the U.S. embassy in Lima. The attack was carried out in the context of an escalation of terrorist violence in the Peruvian capital. In addition to the U.S. embassy, U.S. news agencies and a shopping mall were also attacked. This attack was …
In September 1984, in the district of Yanahuanca, province of Daniel Alcides Carrion in Pasco, the Shining Path PCP murdered three villagers from Chinche Tingo. The victims were executed for proposing to create surveillance mechanisms in the locality. This event occurred in a context where the PCP-SL had been assassinating …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry denounced that Peru was the focus of an international conspiracy. This denouncement included accusations about the narcotics trade and the importation of counterfeit money in favor of terrorism. The statement was made in a context of escalating terrorist violence in the country. This allegation was part …
On August 24, 1984, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces issued an official communiqué about the discovery of a mass grave in Pucayacu. The communiqué suggested that the bodies found in the grave were those of members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed in confrontations with the Armed Forces. Two …
On August 22, 1984, a mass grave was found in Pucayacu with fifty unrecognizable corpses, as they had apparently been burned with acid. Around August 16, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of …
Javier Alva Orlandini made a public statement in which he affirmed that "the generals of the first and second phase encourage and participate in the acts of the PCP-SL". This statement was made in the context of a political debate on the role of the Armed Forces in the anti-subversive …
General EP Carlos Briceño Zevallos, together with the main commanders of the Armed Forces and seconded by a hard-line sector of the ruling party, declared before the public opinion about a peculiar alliance between the retired Velasquist military and the PCP-SL. In reality, Briceño Zevallos was responding to the attacks …
On August 2, 1984, members of the police forces raided the home of journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca's mother in Huanta. Jaime Ayala Sulca was a correspondent for the newspaper La República. This raid occurred in the context of the journalist's disappearance, which caused a commotion in political circles along with …
In August 1984, displaced people arrived in Carhuapampa due to the violence affecting the region. The displaced people settled in this place, adopting the name Huantaqasa for their new settlement. This population movement was part of the generalized pattern of forced displacement that characterized the internal armed conflict in Peru.
On August 1, 1984, six young men belonging to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church were murdered by members of the Marine Infantry in the place called "pago" of Callqui, in the province of Huanta. This event occurred in the context of the indiscriminate repression exercised by the armed forces in the …
On August 1, 1984, fifteen armed men arrived in the hamlet of Callqui, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. This event is part of a series of successive reports of disappearances and assassinations that caused a commotion in political circles during that period. The attack in Callqui-Nisperoniyoc included the murder of evangelists, …
In August 1984, in several villages in the district of Yanahuanca, province of Daniel Alcides Carrion in Pasco, local authorities were assassinated by the Shining Path PCP. This event took place in the context of the PCP-SL's strategy of controlling the countryside by assassinating local authorities and landowners. Previously, in …
During August 1984, multiple murders were recorded in the district of Hualla, province of Fajardo. According to documented accounts, most of these murders were committed by the PCP-SL (Shining Path). This event is part of a period of intense violence in the area, where both the PCP-SL and military forces …
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 August 1984, the Peruvian army committed assassinations against villagers in Uchuraccay. The wife and young son of Faustino Gómez were killed, as well as the youngest daughter of Paulino Figueroa. Also killed were Angelina Llancce Puclla, Inocencia Llancce, Bonifacia Gálvez Farfán, Emilia Ccahuana Cunto and María Maule. These murders …
On July 28, 1984, a column of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the town of Morcolla, in the province of Lucanas, Ayacucho. This was the bloodiest of the three Shining Path incursions recorded in Morcolla during 1983-1984. The Shining Path column killed 36 people during this raid. In addition to the …
On July 28, 1984, the mayor of the district of Santillana, Alberto la Rosa, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. Along with him was executed Juan Contreras, who was a former mayor of the same district. This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy to eliminate local authorities and …
On July 27, 1984, members of the Civil Guard arrested Jesús Oropesa Chonta in Puquio, Ayacucho, on an alleged terrorism charge. Oropesa Chonta was a peasant leader in the area. His detention was followed by his forced disappearance, which caused a commotion in the country's political circles. The case was …
On July 23, 1984, three banners with emblems of the so-called MRTA (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru) were placed in central areas of Lima. This event occurred in the context of an increase in terrorist actions that had begun on June 22, 1984. The act was part of the first public …
DIRCOTE (Directorate Against Terrorism) arrested Laura Zambrano Padilla, known by the alias of Comrade Meche. She occupied the third place in the hierarchy of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) at the time of her capture. This arrest took place in a context of intensified political violence …
FAP Commander General, FAP Lieutenant General Cesar Enrico Praelli, stated in the newspaper Expreso that there is a general consensus among the Armed Forces to exercise total control of the anti-subversive fight. However, he added that the armed forces had not yet fully entered into the fight against subversion. Praelli …
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