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.
In the late afternoon of December 23, 1985, a commando of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) occupied the Scala Gigante store located in the district of Breña, Lima. The MRTA members immobilized the store's guards and employees. Using the store's loudspeakers, they urged the large public present to loot, …
On December 6, 1985, the ronderos of Totora confronted the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This confrontation occurred in the context of a series of Shining Path actions in the Vilcabamba area during November 1985, when the PCP-SL had restarted its actions by taking over several villages and recruiting youths between 10 and …
Reynaldo Rodríguez López was arrested in November 1985 for his involvement in the Villa Coca case, related to drug trafficking. The arrest occurred in a political context where the government of President Alan García Pérez was facing multiple challenges, including political violence and drug trafficking. The Villa Coca case was …
On October 22, 1985, approximately twenty members of the military entered the home of a declarant in the district of Miraflores. During the raid, they detained the affiant and her brother, who was a municipal agent. The military also beat the affiant's mother during the raid. This case forms part …
In October 1985, a violent eviction was carried out against the invaders of the Garagay estate in Callao. The event is briefly mentioned in the CVR report within the context of political events of October 1985. No additional details are provided on the specific circumstances of the eviction, the number …
On September 26, 1985, a mass crime occurred in the town of Huayllay, Tambo district, Ayacucho. The CVR report mentions this event in the context of September 1985, noting that it overshadowed the debate on political amnesty that was taking place in Congress. The Huayllay mass crime is mentioned along …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry publicly denounced that Peru was the focus of an international conspiracy. This conspiracy, according to the president, included the narcotics trade and the importation of counterfeit money in favor of terrorism. The denunciation was made in a context of escalating terrorist violence in the country and …
On August 27, 1985, a military patrol raided the communities of Umaro and Bellavista, in Vilcashuamán, and killed 59 peasants. This massacre occurred a few days after the well-known massacre of Accomarca (August 14, 1985), where 69 peasants were killed. Both events were part of military operations aimed at dealing …
On August 27, 1985, the military detained several peasants from the communities of Umaro and Bellavista, Vilcashuamán province, in Ayacucho. The military forces surrounded the population who tried to flee during the operation. This event occurred in the context of intensified military operations in the emergency zone of Ayacucho. The …
On August 19, 1985, the Peruvian government announced the decision to dismiss and retire 37 generals from the Police Forces. This measure took place in the context of the reorganization of the Police Forces which had been approved by Congress on August 15 by means of a law declaring the …
On August 16, 1985, the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) held a clandestine press conference in Lima. During this conference, the MRTA stated that "it will not carry out military actions against the APRA, as long as the latter does not attack the people". This statement was made in the …
The Peruvian Congress passed a law declaring the reorganization of the Peruvian Police Forces. This measure was part of the institutional reforms implemented during the transition government, in a context of intense political violence and questions about the performance of law enforcement. The police reorganization sought to restructure the country's …
On August 14, 1985, a military patrol of 25 soldiers under the command of Sub-Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado Hurtado entered the community of Llocllapampa in Accomarca and killed 69 peasants, according to witnesses. Days before, on August 8, the Vilcas military base had ordered a joint operation of several patrols to …
On August 4, 1985, the military murdered and buried seven civilians in mass graves in Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. These people had previously been detained in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, where members of the Navy were stationed. Around August 16, approximately fifty people detained in that place were …
In August 1985, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso declared the provinces of Melgar, Azángaro and Huancané as 'red zones', although according to the CVR report the reality was quite different from this declaration. This period was characterized by the actions of the PCP-SL, which included dynamite theft, dynamiting bridges, knocking down high …
In August 1985, 15 villagers were murdered in the town of Huarcatan. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the Ayacucho region, during a period in which both the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the forces of law and order and the peasant patrols …
On July 16, 1985, the Working Commission on Involuntary Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights arrived in Lima. This visit took place in a context where Amnesty International had distributed a communiqué in January of that year stating that more than a thousand people had disappeared …
On July 4, 1985, arbitrary executions took place in the Castropampa barracks, in the department of Ayacucho. The events occurred in the context of human rights violations that included sexual violence. According to testimony gathered by the CVR, before the executions, the commandos first executed the men to prevent them …
Leonor Zamora, mayor of Ayacucho, was arrested by court order on charges of misappropriation of funds and against the duties of office. The detention was ordered by a judge. This event occurred during the month of July 1985, in the context of the transition from the government of Fernando Belaunde …
On June 21, 1985, the withdrawal of the prosecutor's indictment against the three peasants arrested for the Uchuraccay massacre was declared inadmissible. This judicial decision came after prosecutor Oscar Guerrero surprisingly requested, during the hearing of March 26, 1985, the withdrawal of the accusation against the three accused and their …
Luis Aguilar Cajahuamán, an aprista deputy elected for Pasco and mayor, was assassinated on May 8, 1985. The crime occurred in a context of generalized political violence during the 1985 electoral period, when various political actors and local authorities were the target of attacks. Aguilar Cajahuamán had been elected as …
Between April 11 and 15, 1985, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out several actions in the province of Azángaro, department of Puno. The actions took place in several localities including Azángaro, Arapa and San Juan de Salinas. This period corresponds to the phase of expansion of violence in the department of …
In April and May 1985, after a subversive attack in the community of Chillihua, law enforcement and the ronderos of Pallqas and Chupón captured a total of 25 community members accused of being subversives. Subsequently, all of those captured were eliminated. This event took place in the context of widespread …
On March 20, 1985, members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) set fire to a Kentucky Fried Chicken store in Lima. This attack was part of a campaign of anti-electoral actions that the MRTA was developing during that period. Most of the attacks during this period were directed against …
In March 1985, the Intersectoral Confederation of State Workers (CITE) began an indefinite strike that lasted 22 days. This strike was joined by various sectors including workers of the Corporación Peruana de Aeropuertos y Aviación Comercial S.A., workers of the Ministry of Justice, SUTEP and Social Security, as well as …
The Peruvian government created the Inti as the country's new monetary unit. This economic measure came into effect on February 1, 1985, during the administration of President Fernando Belaunde Terry. The creation of the Inti was part of the economic policies implemented in a context of economic crisis and political …
Felipe Osterling Parodi made statements in the newspaper La Crónica stating that terrorism is the cause of the violation of human rights in the country. In his statements, Osterling criticized the Creole communists for not condemning terrorism. This statement came in the context of an intense political debate on the …
During 1985 and 1986 there was a period of significant decline in the intensity of the internal armed conflict in Peru. This period represented the lowest point in terms of the number of fatalities, with 1986 being the year with the lowest number of reported deaths and disappearances. This decrease …
In 1985, 809 Quechua-speaking deaths and disappearances were recorded. The Shining Path PCP was responsible for 412 victims, State agents for 341, the CADS for 19, the MRTA for 3, and 34 cases were attributed to undetermined perpetrators or others. There was a decrease compared to the previous year.
The text of the CVR report mentions the District of San Martin, Province of La Mar, Department of Ayacucho during 1985 in the context of human rights violations that occurred during the internal armed conflict. Although the reference is brief and appears in a list of locations, it is found …
Beginning in 1985, the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) began to infiltrate the strikes called by the CITE (Central de Trabajadores Públicos). This infiltration was part of the Shining Path's strategy to expand its presence in the union and neighborhood movement in Lima, taking advantage of the …
In the district of Huariaca, the first Shining Path incursions date back to 1985. Huariaca was an obligatory transit point for PCP-SL militants to enter neighboring districts in the province of Ambo (Huánuco). These first incursions marked the beginning of the Shining Path's presence in the area, which would later …
In 1985, the hikers returned for the second time to the Pilchaca district. During this incursion, they left letters addressed to local authorities demanding that they resign from their posts. The letters contained explicit threats indicating that if the authorities did not heed the resignation demand, they would be executed …
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