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.
EP Lieutenant Colonel Julio Alberto Rodríguez Córdova testified before the Second Permanent Court of the Army's Second Judicial Zone about the detention operation of María Magdalena Monteza Benavides on October 30, 1992. In his statement, Rodriguez Cordova affirmed that he had authorization from the Command to carry out the operation …
Pedro Huilca, General Secretary of the CGTP (General Confederation of Peruvian Workers), was assassinated on December 18, 1992. This crime occurred in a context of extreme violence in Lima, where the subversive groups Sendero Luminoso and MRTA had intensified their terrorist actions. Huilca's murder was part of a series of …
The government of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori called for elections for a Constituent Congress, achieving a pro-government majority in the process. This call took place in the context of the self-coup of April 5, 1992, when Fujimori dissolved the National Congress and reorganized the Judicial Power. The aim of the Constituent …
Alberto Fujimori's government enacted anti-terrorist legislation that made it a crime of treason to justify terrorism. This measure was part of a set of anti-terrorist laws implemented during 1992, in the context of the Emergency and National Reconstruction Government established after the April 5 self-coup. The legislation was part of …
The declarant was detained on November 18, 1992 in the district of Magdalena, Lima. This case is part of the testimonies compiled by the CVR on detentions during the internal armed conflict. The detention occurred in the context of operations against subversion in the capital during 1992. The testimony documents …
On November 5, 1992, a group of hikers entered the town of Zarin, in the province of Sanchez Carrion (Huamachuco) at night. During this incursion, the PCP-SL selectively assassinated three local authorities: the Judge, the Governor and the Mayor of the town. This attack was part of the Shining Path's …
On November 3, 1992, four days after her initial detention by military personnel from the Intelligence Department of the 1st Division of the Army's Special Forces, María Magdalena Monteza Benavides was handed over to the National Directorate against Terrorism (DINCOTE). During her previous detention in military facilities, Monteza was subjected …
On October 21, 1992, a massacre occurred in Sincos, Jauja district, in which 8 people were killed. According to the report, the victims could have been students from the National University of Central Peru (UNCP). This event took place in the context of 1992, when violence reached its highest peak …
Martha Huatay Ruiz, head of Socorro Popular and member of the Metropolitan Lima Committee of the PCP-SL, was captured. Her capture is part of the disarticulation of the Shining Path structure in Lima after the capture of Abimael Guzman.
The arrest of Abimael Guzmán, leader of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, occurred in September 1992. This event marked a turning point in the internal armed conflict, although the PCP-SL maintained military capacity to develop actions against the population and the forces of law and order in the central region even after …
Supreme Resolution No. 114-92, enacted on August 14, 1992, approved the Regulations for Visits to inmates for the crime of Terrorism. This regulation was part of the set of decree laws issued after the coup d'état of April 1992, which established a restrictive legal framework for persons accused or convicted …
Decree Law No. 25660 was enacted on August 13, 1992, modifying Article 136° of the Code of Criminal Procedure. This norm was part of the anti-terrorist legislation enacted after the coup d'état of April 1992. The decree was framed in a context of expanded police and military powers for the …
Decree Law No. 25659 of August 13, 1992 created the crime of treason, denaturalizing its traditional conception and limiting it to a legal denomination of the aggravated type of the crime of terrorism. The law established that treason is committed by those who use car bombs, explosive devices or weapons …
In August 1992, the Peruvian Executive Branch created the crime of treason through anti-terrorist legislation. This crime punished with life imprisonment the leaders or leaders of subversive groups or those who participated in or collaborated with the carrying out of attacks through the use of explosive or similar materials. This …
On Sunday, July 29, 1992, a detachment of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the district of Inchupalla, province of Huancané, department of Puno. During this action, the subversives killed four local authorities and a child. This attack was part of an upsurge of subversive violence in Puno during 1991 and 1992, …
The March for Peace was called by the municipality of Miraflores in response to the simultaneous attacks that occurred during the trekking escalation of July 1992. The march was attended by the Minister of Economy, members of the Executive and former parliamentarians. This event took place a few days after …
On July 18, 1992, students from the Enrique Guzmán y Valle National University of Education, known as La Cantuta, disappeared. This event occurred in a context of intensifying political violence in the country, a few months after the self-coup of April 5, 1992. The disappearance occurred during the period of …
On July 16, 1992, a car bomb exploded on Tarata Street in the Miraflores district of Lima. This attack occurred in a context of intensifying violence in the capital, where the subversive groups Sendero Luminoso and MRTA increased their actions by carrying out continuous attacks against public and private entities. …
On July 3, 1992, a woman was arrested in the Urbanización San Felipe, located in the district of Comas, Lima. The detention was carried out by law enforcement forces in the context of the Peruvian internal armed conflict. This case is part of the testimonies documented by the CVR about …
In July 1992, the Shining Path PCP murdered eight people in the community of Pallcca. This event occurred in the context of the last acts of violence by the PCP-SL in the Ayacucho region, shortly before the capture of Abimael Guzmán in September of that year. The attack took place …
On July 1, 1992, the Shining Path raided the town of Huamanquiquia, in the province of Victor Fajardo. This event occurred in the context of the end of the internal armed conflict, when the PCP-SL was already militarily defeated after the capture of Abimael Guzman. Despite this, the 'Feliciano' faction …
In July 1992, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the community of Pallcca, an annex of the Sacsamarca district in the province of Huancasancos, and killed 8 people. This event occurred in the context of the latest episodes of violence in Zone I of the south central region, shortly after the Challhuamayo …
Decree Law No. 25564 was enacted on June 20, 1992 as part of the anti-terrorist legislation implemented after the coup d'état of April 1992. This norm modified Article 20° of the Penal Code in force. It was part of a set of decree laws issued during the government of Alberto …
On June 19, 1992, subversives took over the town of Mazamari-Dos de Mayo in the province of Satipo. During this armed incursion, the subversives killed 7 villagers. This event occurred in the context of 1992, when violence reached its highest peak in the central region, with dynamite attacks, blackouts, sabotage, …
On June 19, 1992, subversives took over the town of Dos de Mayo in the district of Mazamari, province of Satipo. During this incursion, the subversives killed 7 villagers. This attack took place in the context of the intense activity of the PCP-SL in the province of Satipo during 1992, …
On June 19, 1992, in Challhuamayo, a vehicle belonging to the Huancasancos Municipality was dynamited by the Shining Path PCP. Seventeen people perished in the attack, including civilian and military authorities. Among the victims were the provincial mayor, the sub-prefect, the provincial prosecutor, the justice of the peace, the manager …
The police intervention in the Canto Grande prison took place between June 6 and 9, 1992, culminating in the assassination of prominent cadres of Socorro Popular of the PCP-SL. This action was one of the triggers of the wave of Shining Path violence that culminated in the attack on Tarata …
Approximately 150 MRTA subversives attacked the Pichanaki police post on May 18, 1992. The attack resulted in 1 sinchi killed and 3 wounded. This action was part of MRTA's strategy to carry out major operations in the central jungle, after having unsuccessfully attempted to take Pichanaki in December 1991 and …
In the early morning of May 17, 1992, a contingent of PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants, dressed in military uniforms to look like army soldiers, took over the town of Quiparacra. The subversives murdered seven people, among them a councilwoman, in the presence of the villagers. The victims were Isabel Alcántara (councilwoman), …
On May 17, 1992, the Shining Path PCP raided the annex of Quiparacra, located in the district of Huachon. In the presence of the assembled villagers, the subversive column assassinated seven local authorities who had decided to confront the threats and remain in their posts. This attack was part of …
On May 14, 1992, a contingent of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered three annexes of the district of Ulcumayo, in the province and department of Junin. This action was part of a series of terrorist incursions that the PCP-SL carried out in May 1992 in various districts of the area, as …
On May 14, 1992, the Shining Path PCP carried out coordinated assaults on three annexes in the district of Ulcumayo, in the province and department of Junin. This action was part of a broader campaign known as the 'caravan of death' that the PCP-SL executed in the area during 1992 …
On May 13, 1992, a contingent of the PCP-SL entered the town of Chupaca, in the district of Paucartambo. During this incursion, the Shining Path militants slit the throats of villagers and also murdered Alberto Miranda Córdova and Porfirio Fuero Anco. This action was part of a series of violent …
On May 13, 1992, in the context of a campaign of violence by the Shining Path PCP in the districts of Paucartambo, Huachón and Ulcumayo, the accidental mayor of the small town of Chupaca was murdered by slitting his throat. Despite having previously announced by radio his resignation to avoid …
On May 12, 1992, the Peruvian government published the Repentance Law. This law was enacted in a context of intensifying political violence in Metropolitan Lima, a few days after the police intervention known as 'Mudanza Uno' in the Shining Path wards of the Canto Grande prison (May 9, 1992), which …
A declarant was detained on May 10, 1992 in the district of Los Olivos, province and department of Lima. The testimony is part of the cases documented by the CVR related to detentions during the internal armed conflict. The detention occurred in the context of law enforcement operations during the …
On April 29, 1992, a leader of the housing association 'Proyectos Especiales' was assassinated in the intermediate zone of the district of San Juan de Lurigancho. This assassination occurred in the context of a wave of violence against neighborhood leaders in the district during April 1992. The attack took place …
On April 22, 1992, members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) kidnapped businessman Pedro Antonio Miyasato. This kidnapping occurred in a context of intense subversive activity, just days after the April 5, 1992 coup d'état carried out by President Alberto Fujimori. The event occurred in the midst of a …
On April 21, 1992, Máximo San Román Cáceres was sworn in as constitutional president before members of the dissolved Congress of the Republic at the Lima Bar Association headquarters. The ceremony was attended by 44 of the sixty senators and 149 of the 180 deputies. This act took place after …
Peter Cardenas Schulte, leader of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), was captured on April 14, 1992. He was sentenced to life imprisonment according to Law 25475, which was applied retroactively since this law had not yet been enacted at the time of his capture. This occurred in the context …
On April 5, 1992, President Alberto Fujimori executed a self-coup d'état in Peru. This event marked a turning point in the counter-subversive strategy of the internal armed conflict. After the self-coup, repression intensified in a selective manner, with continuous reports of arbitrary detentions, torture and disappearances by counter-subversive forces. The …
On April 5, 1992, President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, with the support of the forces of law and order, announced the dissolution of the National Parliament and the total reorganization of the Judiciary. As part of this coup d'état, the president of the Senate, Felipe Osterling Parodi, and the president of …
The Minister of Economy, Carlos Boloña Behr, publicly accuses former President Alan García Pérez and the Comptroller General of the Republic, Luz Áurea Saenz, of boycotting the economic program implemented by the government with exclusively political interests. Boloña specifically criticized the Comptroller's intentions to enter the National Superintendence of Tax …
Peter Cardenas Schultz, one of the leaders of the MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement), was captured in April 1992 in Raucana. This occurred in the same month as the April 5, 1992 coup d'état carried out by President Alberto Fujimori. During a confrontation in Raucana, 3 villagers were killed and …
Between April and May 1992, the MRTA carried out a series of offensive military actions in the department of San Martin. MRTA attacked the towns of Tarapoto, Picota, Tabalosos and San Miguel del Río Mayo. In addition to these attacks on towns, the MRTA also attacked the police posts of …
On March 31, 1992, Ana Carolina Lira Chupingahua's husband was murdered in Lima. According to Ana Carolina's testimony, her husband accompanied her two blocks to the bus stop, without foreseeing what would happen. This case is mentioned in the context of victims among the forces of law and order during …
In March 1992, the Shining Path PCP murdered eight people in a high school in Huancayo. This occurred in a context of intense violence in the Central region, where the PCP-SL had increased its violent actions against the civilian population. The attack on the high school was part of a …
The Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) implements its VI Military Plan with the strategic objective of 'Building the conquest of power'. This military plan represents a new phase in the insurgent strategy of the subversive organization. The VI Military Plan was developed in a context of intensified …
Approximately 150 subversives attacked the Pichanaki police post in March 1992. The attack resulted in 1 police officer dead and 3 wounded Sinchis. This attack took place in a context of maximum violence in the region during 1992, when dynamite attacks, blackouts, sabotage, assassinations, disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions and …
On February 14, 1992, the Shining Path PCP called an armed strike in Lima during which 25 attacks were carried out. Among these attacks was the blowing up of a truck. During these armed strikes, the PCP-SL assassinated cab drivers to sow terror in that sector of the transport sector. …
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