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.
Alleged subversives attacked Bravo Quispe, mayor of the district of Yanacancha in Pasco. As a result of the attack, the mayor's driver and other people not identified in the report died. This attack took place in the context of the final period of the cycle of violence in the central …
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 …
The PCP-SL assassinated the mayor of Pomacanchi, Julio Choque Mamani, of FRENATRACA. This selective assassination against a local authority is evidence of the continuity of the political violence of the PCP-SL against representatives of the State.
On May 13, 1992, the main PCP-SL force in Canchis carried out a series of selective assassinations in the district of San Pedro. The Shining Pathists assassinated the mayor, the governor, the president of the potable water system and a local leader. During the raid, they also burned the municipal …
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 …
In March 1992, the executive committee of CUAVES and the "District Struggle Committee" - a Shining Path front group - mobilized hundreds of people to protest, demanding the dismissal of Mayor Johny Rodriguez "for promoting the militarization of VES". This mobilization occurred shortly after the assassination of María Elena Moyano …
In 1992, Shining Path militants assassinated the Mayor of the District of Huaura, Jesús Morales Bermúdez, along with employee Róger Huerta. This murder was part of a series of selective assassinations perpetrated by the PCP-SL in the coastal provinces since 1992, the year of Abimael Guzmán's capture. The Shining Path's …
On July 17, 1991, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the provincial mayor of San Antonio de Putina, Prudencio Sulca, along with two municipal councilors in the Calacala farm. This assassination was part of a systematic campaign of elimination of local authorities carried out by the Shining Path in the department of …
On July 17, 1991, the provincial mayor of San Antonio de Putina, Prudencio Sulca Huayta, was assassinated in the department of Puno. This crime took place in the context of an intensification of selective attacks by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, which followed its peculiar symbolic pattern of attacking local authorities and …
On July 17, 1991, the provincial mayor of San Antonio de Putina was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of violent actions perpetrated by PCP-SL urban annihilation commandos in Puno during 1991. The attack against this municipal authority took place in a context of …
On June 25, 1991, Jose Ramirez Cahuana, provincial mayor of La Union in the department of Arequipa, was assassinated. This crime occurred during the so-called "red month of the PCP-SL", a period of intense violent activity that lasted from May 17 to June 19, 1991. The assassination was part of …
On June 7, 1991, a contingent of subversives from the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the district of La Merced and carried out a massacre against local authorities and villagers. The victims were Prospero Valencia Porras (district mayor) and his wife Rufina Guevara; Oswaldo Porras Valencia and his wife Juana Santos Mancco; …
In 1991, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a series of selective assassinations in Santiago de Chuco as part of its strategy of eliminating local authorities and people considered enemies of its political-military project. The victims included the mayor, the sub-prefect, an APRA leader and a local hospital worker. These murders …
In 1991, the mayor of Tocache, Fredy Aliaga, was assassinated along with a coca growers' leader. This assassination occurred in the context of the advance of the Shining Path PCP in the region, where the subversive organization was forming popular committees in different towns in the provinces of Bellavista and …
On April 16, 1990, the PCP-SL attacked the district of Layo in the province of Canas. During this attack, three local authorities were assassinated: Mayor Claudio Huilca, Judge Jorge Padín and Governor Benigno Paca. This attack was part of the Shining Path's strategy to strike at any hint of local …
The PCP-SL attacked the district of Layo, province of Canas, assassinating Mayor Claudio Huilca, Judge Jorge Padín and Governor Benigno Paca. This multiple attack against local authorities is evidence of the PCP-SL's strategy to eliminate the presence of the State in rural areas.
On February 5, 1990, the mayor of the district of Cachachi, Eleuterio Roncal, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Tambería Cachachi, Cajabamba province. This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy of systematic elimination of local authorities who resisted their political-military project or who did …
The elected mayor of Izquierda Unida of the district of Huachocolpa was assassinated by members of the PCP-SL. This assassination was part of the Shining Path policy of eliminating elected local authorities, particularly those linked to legal leftist parties that they considered 'revisionist'.
On the night of December 3, 1989, a PCP-SL column entered Orurillo and assassinated eight people: IU mayor-elect Tomás Quispesayhua (secretary general of the district peasant federation), Godofredo Marrón (secretary general of SUTEP), Pedro Pablo Tito Limache (primary school teacher), Julio Céspedes (director of the Agricultural College), Víctor Quispesayhua (governor), …
On October 10, 1989, Felipe Vergara Avila, provincial mayor of Cajatambo in the department of Lima, was assassinated. This crime took place in the context of a municipal election campaign marred by the assassinations of mayors and mayoral candidates in different parts of the country. The assassination was part of …
Arminda Gutierres Trelles, provincial aprista mayor of Churcampa in the department of Huancavelica, was assassinated on October 9, 1989. This assassination occurred in the context of a municipal election campaign marred by the murders of mayors and mayoral candidates in different parts of the country. The crime was part of …
On September 24, 1989, Edilberto Salazar, mayor of the district of Morococha (Yauli province, Junin), was assassinated by PCP-SL militants. This crime was part of the Shining Path's campaign of selective annihilation of leftist leaders.
Fermín Darío Azparrent Taipe, mayor of the Provincial Council of Huamanga for Izquierda Unida, was murdered in his hardware store in the afternoon. He had been the victim of multiple threats from both the PCP-SL and the paramilitary group 'Rodrigo Franco'. He was attacked by two men who shot him, …
On September 19, 1989, members of the PCP-SL (Shining Path) assassinated the provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermin Azparrent, in that city. Azparrent was a militant of Izquierda Unida (IU). This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's systematic campaign against municipal and political authorities during the internal armed conflict. The crime …
On September 19, 1989, Fermín Azparrent, mayor of the province of Huamanga (Ayacucho) and former militant of the PCP Unidad, was assassinated by militants of the PCP-SL. This assassination was part of the increase in attacks and assassinations of leftist militants and leaders accused of being revisionists, traitors to the …
The provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Asparrent, was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP in September 1989. This crime was one of the most important in the city of Huamanga during the period of intense urban violence. The assassination occurred in a context of growing PCP-SL activity in the city, …
In September 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated Mayor Juan Pando Prado and Isaac Salvatierra in Ccaccamarca, Ocros district. This was part of the Shining Path's strategy to eliminate local authorities in the Huamanga region. The assassination occurred in the same month in which the PCP-SL also executed the provincial mayor of …
The provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Azparrent Taipe, was fatally shot by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in September 1989. This assassination took place in a context of intensifying internal armed conflict between 1988 and 1991, when both intelligence agents and PCP-SL groups carried out selective assassinations in the city. The attack …
The provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Asparrent, was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP in September 1989. This crime was one of the most important in the city of Huamanga during the period of intense urban violence. The assassination occurred in a context of growing PCP-SL activity in the city, …
Manuel Espinoza Monroe, aprista provincial mayor of Leoncio Prado in the department of Huanuco, was assassinated on June 15, 1989. This crime took place in a context of intensifying political violence in Peru, where local authorities, especially mayors, were frequent targets of subversive groups. The assassination was part of a …
On May 29, 1989, the PCP-SL took over the district of Ayrampuni in the province of Melgar, Puno. During this raid, they assassinated the mayor Daniel Curro Chambi and set fire to the school premises. This assassination occurred in the context of a violent campaign by the PCP-SL during May …
The Ministry of the Interior issued a communiqué informing about the capture of Benedicto Peña, mayor of the district of Lagunas, Yurimaguas. Peña was arrested in the company of other apristas while they were handing out leaflets of the Comando Rodrigo Franco. The Comando Rodrigo Franco was a paramilitary group …
On Friday, May 19, 1989, a group of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Marcelino Pachari Roselló, provincial mayor of Azángaro. The mayor was inspecting the reconstruction of the bridge that had been blown up days before by a detachment of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of …
On Friday, May 19, 1989, a group of the PCP-SL assassinated Marcelino Pachari Roselló, provincial mayor of Azángaro and militant of the Communist Party of Peru "Patria Roja". The mayor was inspecting the reconstruction of the bridge that days before had been blown up by a detachment of the PCP-SL. …
In May 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated the mayor of the district of Cachachi along with his wife, as part of its strategy to eliminate local authorities. The attack included the dynamiting of the municipal building. This event is part of the Shining Path offensive to liquidate associative enterprises and eliminate …
On Thursday, April 20, 1989, at 7:30 p.m., after several explosions and a subsequent blackout, a column of the PCP-SL took the main square of Acolla. The Shining Path guerrillas captured the APRA mayor Víctor Mayta Galarza and after a popular trial they assassinated him with two bullets to the …
In the early morning of February 13, 1989, an undetermined number of hikers entered San José de Quero and violently extracted Ciro Clemente Cairo, Mayor of the district, from his home. The PCP-SL militants killed him with two bullets on the access road to the community. Subsequently, they proceeded to …
On January 23, 1989, the Aprista provincial mayor of Satipo, Fidel Juarez Torres, was assassinated. This crime took place in a context of intensifying political violence in the department of Junín during 1989. The assassination was part of a systematic campaign against elected authorities, with 1989 being the year with …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Shining Path offensive extended to targets in coastal towns. In this context, the PCP-SL assassinated Edgardo Reyes, who was mayor of Supe Pueblo. This assassination was part of a broader PCP-SL strategy of attacking local authorities in coastal areas. The attack on Supe Pueblo was …
The mayor of Ocros was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP shortly after the murder of the provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Asparrent, in September 1989. This crime was part of a systematic strategy of the PCP-SL to eliminate local authorities in the Ayacucho region. The assassination took place in …
On December 13, 1988, a contingent of approximately 150 men of the PCP-SL entered the district of Pallanchacra, which borders the Ambo district to the north (department of Huánuco). During this incursion, PCP-SL militants assassinated the district mayor. Pallanchacra was an obligatory transit point for PCP-SL militants to enter neighboring …
A contingent of approximately 150 men of the PCP-SL entered the district of Pallanchacra on December 10, 1988. Pallanchacra borders the Ambo district to the north (department of Huanuco) and was an obligatory transit point for PCP-SL militants to enter neighboring districts in the province of Ambo. During this incursion, …
On November 11, 1988, César Valentín Palomino, provincial mayor of Huancayo, was assassinated. This crime took place in a context of intensifying political violence in the department of Junin, where both the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA were active. The assassination of democratically elected authorities was a recurrent tactic of …
On June 30, 1988, two subversives of the PCP Shining Path assassinated the provincial mayor of Puno, Luis Dueñas Peralta. This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's strategy of eliminating local authorities in the Puno region during the period of expanding subversive violence. The attack occurred in a context where …
On June 26, 1988, the mayor of San Juan de Salinas, Jaime Centeno Jove, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This crime occurred in the context of a systematic campaign of selective assassinations against local authorities in the department of Puno. San Juan de Salinas was a district in the …
In December 1987, the mayor of Huanta, Victor Raul Yangali Castro, was assassinated by the PCP-SL (Shining Path). This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy to eliminate local authorities and state representatives in the region. The event occurred in a context of intensifying internal armed conflict in the …
On June 16, 1987, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the APRA provincial mayor of Picota, Rafael Saavedra Saavedra. This assassination was part of the selective annihilation strategy of the PCP-SL against local political authorities, especially those linked to the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP). The crime occurred in the context …
On April 23, 1987, the PCP-SL entered the town of Shirac in the province of Cajabamba. During this raid, the Shining Pathists assassinated the local mayor. In addition to the selective assassination of the local authority, the militants left graffiti and banners in the town as part of their armed …
On April 8, 1987, seven men and two women of the PCP-SL dragged Mayor Zenobio Huarzaya from his home to the plaza while his wife and children looked on in despair. They knelt him down in front of 200 people and asked if they would kill him. The people clamored …
Zenón Huarsaya, local leader, founder of the Peasant Federation and newly elected mayor of San Juan de Salinas, was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP. He was dragged from his home to the town square where the PCP-SL had gathered the population. This assassination occurred in the context of conflicts …
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