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.
Shining Path forcibly recruited 24 students between 10 and 12 years of age. The children were subjected to strict rules: they could only eat when ordered to do so by the Shining Path members, otherwise they were killed for breaking the rules. Methods of execution included tying hands, hanging and …
The Shining Path took the older students, between 10 and 12 years old, to the bush. The teacher was told that after 3 months they would return them. The teacher objected and that is why they killed him. This testimony shows how the subversives entered schools to recruit children and …
The terrorists came at night to ask for support and took the students from the schools. Among them were two older students, 10 and 9 years old. A witness wonders how they were training these children with weapons. The entry into the schools and the recruitment of students was repeated …
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