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 9, 1987, a massacre was perpetrated by the militant group Sendero Luminoso in the village of Rumi-Rumi, located in the province of La Mar, Peru. Fourteen peasants and ten children were executed in the public square for organizing civil defense patrols. This tragic event left eighty children orphaned …
On September 26, 1985, approximately 100 members of the Sendero Luminoso attacked the village of Huayao. They looted and burned the homes of the villagers, causing many to flee for their lives. Mariano Marquina Miguel, a member of the local Civil Defense, was gravely injured in the attack and later …
In August 1983, the Infantería de Marina established a Civil Defense Committee in Ccarhuahurán, a historical center of the Iquichanos in Huanta, Peru. This was part of a broader effort to create 'multicommunal antisubversive bases' in response to the threat posed by the PCP-SL. By November 1983, families from ten …
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