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 September 5, 1993, over 200 members of the Shining Path (PCP-SL) took control of several villages in the Monzón Valley, Peru. They gathered the villagers and executed 24 individuals accused of being informants and criminals, using machetes, axes, and knives. This brutal act was part of the Shining Path's …
On January 1, 1986, a group of sixty subversives from the PCP-SL attacked the village of Agua Blanca in the Monzón Valley. They targeted a Committee of Self-Defense led by Andrés Cornelio Castañeda. In a brutal display, Castañeda and 15 others were tortured and killed, with Castañeda's body being decapitated …
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