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.
The MRTA, having reconstituted itself after its defeat at Molinos in 1989, decided to carry out large-scale actions. On December 1, 1991, it attempted to take the town of Pichanaki but failed. This failure was followed by other setbacks for the organization in the area. In January 1992, one of …
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 November 4, 1985, members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) took over the offices of the newspaper El Nacional in Lima. The action lasted more than half an hour, during which MRTA members occupied the newspaper's premises. This action was part of the MRTA's activities during 1985, a …
The first subversive action recorded in Alto Huallaga occurred in 1983 against the facilities of the Control and Reduction of Coca Cultivation in Alto Huallaga (CORAH) project, located in Tingo Maria. This attack marked the beginning of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso's actions in the Alto Huallaga region. The PCP-SL sought to …
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