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 25, 1994, in the town of Muyoc, province of San Marcos, department of Cajamarca, the police killed three members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This confrontation took place in the context of the decline of Shining Path violence in the region, after the capture of Abimael Guzmán in 1992 …
On October 27, 1994, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso tried to attack the Q'enqoro prison again in order to free their detained militants. This attempt took place in a context of desperation of the subversive group, after in August of the same year several of its militants began to take …
In June 1994, Manuel Barrientos García, mayor of the Sacsamarca district, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The perpetrators dressed as military personnel to commit the crime. This assassination occurred almost as an isolated episode, being one of the last events of violence in the area, two years after the …
Operation Aries was a large-scale military operation launched in April 1994 in the Huallaga region, as part of the counter-subversive strategy in an area that remained violent while the rest of the country was increasingly pacified. However, the operation was halted in May of the same year in the face …
The Prosecutor of the Nation, Blanca Nélida Colán, made an inspection visit to Venenillo and other towns in the area where Operation Aries was taking place, flying over the area by helicopter. During this visit, the Prosecutor stated that the allegations made by the National Human Rights Coordinator about alleged …
Approximately 40 army troops entered the Shapingo area in April 1994, resulting in a massacre. During the military incursion, sexual violence against local women was reported. One woman who survived the massacre reported that a woman was raped and then released. This event is part of a pattern of behavior …
Operation Aries was a large-scale military operation launched in April 1994 in the Huallaga region, as part of the counter-subversive strategy in an area that remained a hotbed of violence while the rest of the country was increasingly pacified. The operation was part of the Army's concentrated efforts to combat …
In February 1994, a Shining Path column raided the villages of Balcón and Picota as they attempted to enter the district of Santo Domingo. This event occurred in the context of Shining Path's final actions in the province of Angaraes, Huancavelica. The incursion occurred after the area had experienced years …
In February 1994, a Shining Path column raided the villages of Balcón and Picota, located in the district of Santo Domingo. This event occurred in a context of declining subversive activity, after the capture of Abimael Guzmán in 1992 and the 1993 peace accords. Subversive activity was so low at …
Beginning in 1994, the department of Huánuco, and especially the province of Leoncio Prado in the Huallaga valley, became one of the main scenarios of the internal armed conflict during its final period. This province accounted for more than a quarter of the fatalities during the final period of violence. …
In 1994, 163 Quechua-speaking deaths and disappearances were reported. The Shining Path PCP was responsible for 96 victims, State Agents for 47, CADS for 2, MRTA for 6, and 12 cases were attributed to undetermined perpetrators or others.
During 1994, sexual violence occurred in the barracks called 'La Veterinaria' in Trujillo. A declarant was detained for the second time in 1994 in Trujillo and taken to this barracks, where the reported events occurred. The barracks was a military facility used to detain people accused of terrorism. The testimonies …
During 1994, Peruvian law enforcement suffered 67 fatal casualties in the internal armed conflict, representing 4.0% of the total number of law enforcement casualties during the entire period investigated. Of these casualties, 52 corresponded to the Armed Forces and 15 to the Police Forces. This year is in the period …
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