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 raided the city of Yurimaguas with 95 armed men who attacked the Navy base and the police post in two groups, forcing the few troops to surrender and freeing prisoners in the local jail. While one group held a rally, another group opened the doors of the commercial …
A Shining Path detachment took the town of Lagunas, near Yurimaguas, attacking the police post and killing two policemen and an official of the Agrarian Bank. The group was led by the doctor Luis Castillo Tapia, head of the Lagunas hospital. In their retreat, the hikers clashed near the small …
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