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.
A teacher was arrested in Aquia, Bolognesi, Ancash, and subjected to torture. During his detention, he experienced severe physical mistreatment that led him to lose consciousness. The perpetrators attempted to bury him believing him dead, referring to him as "this dog" and ordering him to be thrown away. The testimony …
Testimony of a teacher who was detained in Aquia, Bolognesi, Ancash. The declarant narrates his experience of torture and mistreatment during his detention. The testimony describes situations of extreme humiliation and dehumanization, where he relates that he begged his captors not to kill him and that they treated him brutally. …
The skeletal remains of some thirty people, showing signs of torture, were found in a spot in the Ullta ravine on the Carhuaz-Chacas highway (Ancash). The discovery of these clandestine graves is evidence of extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances that occurred in the area during the internal armed conflict.
On May 14, 1996, there was an armed confrontation between members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and peasant patrols in the town of Santo Domingo, located in the Conchucos area. The confrontation resulted in the death of two hikers. This event occurred in the context of the decline of Shining Path …
A female witness was arrested in Chimbote on April 18, 1993 and subsequently transferred to the Police Office in Huacho. During her detention, she was held in a dark room where she was subjected to interrogation. This case is part of the systematic pattern of sexual violence and torture documented …
Ten popular leaders from the province of Santa were unjustly detained, tortured and accused of subversion by a group of drunken policemen, without explanation. This case exemplifies the abuses committed by the forces of law and order against social leaders.
On May 2, 1992, the Colina detachment kidnapped and murdered 9 peasants from Santa. The victims were detained and then executed or disappeared. The victims' relatives filed Habeas Corpus appeals that were declared inadmissible by the Judicial Power. The bodies were buried clandestinely using lime to make it difficult to …
The Colina group raids the Javier Heraud, San Carlos and La Huaca human settlements in Ancash. During the operation, they detain and execute nine residents who were linked to unions and trade unions. This action is part of the selective elimination operations carried out by this paramilitary group.
In the first minutes of the day, several individuals carrying military weapons, among them a woman, raided different homes in the human settlements. Approximately 18 members of the Colina Detachment, under the command of Major EP Santiago Martin Rivas, kidnapped nine peasants who were brutally beaten and forced to get …
Disappearance of 9 peasants, leaders of the human settlements La Dacha, San Carlos and Javier Heraud de El Santa. The case has a high probability of involvement of the Colina Group as responsible for the human rights violations.
An Italian priest was murdered in the town of Santa, province of Santa, department of Ancash. This crime occurred in the context of a series of attacks against religious in the region during August 1991. Days earlier, on August 9, a group of subversives had assassinated the mayor of Pariacoto …
Fr. Alessandro Dordi, an Italian parish priest from Santa, was the victim of an ambush when he was returning from celebrating Mass and Baptisms in Vinzos, accompanied by two catechists. The terrorists forced him to get out of the vehicle and shot him twice, once in the chest and once …
A group of Shining Path guerrillas assassinated two Polish Franciscan priests, Michel Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strzalkowski, in Pariacoto, Ancash. Shining Path claimed these murders as a blow to the old order, accusing the priests of being agents of imperialism in disguise. The priests worked in development projects with peasant communities. …
Polish Franciscan priests Zbigniew Strazalkowski (32 years old) and Michel Tomasek (34 years old) were taken by a column of the Shining Path from the parish house of Pariacoto after Mass. They were taken to the Pueblo Viejo, next to the cemetery, where they killed Father Miguel with a shot …
On August 9, 1991, a group of subversives assassinated the mayor of Pariacoto and two Polish priests in the district of Pariacoto, province of Huaraz, department of Ancash. This attack was part of a series of selective attacks intensified by the PCP-SL during that period, which included actions against local …
On May 9, 1990, members of the Special Operations Directorate of the National Police arrested eight residents in the communities of Pimachi, Aco and Huanri: José Chávez Loli, José Beltrán, Cornelio Abad Ediolino, Elfer Abad Casimiro, Roberto Loli Marzano, Ambrosio Surco Cama, Celestino Martínez Gavino and Orlando Anastasio Soberan. The …
On May 9, 1990, members of the Special Operations Directorate of the National Police arrested eight villagers in the communities of Pimachi, Aco and Huanri: José Chávez Loli, José Beltrán, Cornelio Abad Ediolino, Elfer Abad Casimiro, Roberto Loli Marzano, Ambrosio Surco Cama, Celestino Martínez Gavino and Orlando Anastasio Soberan. The …
In 1990, in the town of Llaclla, province of Bolognesi, peasant Esau Moreno Cotrina, Nilton Loli Mauricio (Director of the Educational Center) and teacher Saturnino Cerrate were arrested by members of the National Police Special Operations Directorate. All three were accused of being Shining Path members. This arrest took place …
The province of Ocros was created in 1990 as a result of a fragmentation of the province of Bolognesi. According to the 1993 Census, the population of Ocros was 7,039 inhabitants. This provincial creation occurred in the midst of the internal armed conflict affecting the region. The new province was …
Angel Ayala, an engineer from the Micro region of Bolognesi, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Llaclla in 1990. This assassination took place in the context of an escalation of Shining Path violence in the area between 1989 and 1993, a period in which the PCP-SL …
At the end of 1990, a clandestine grave was discovered in a desolate spot known as Chontapunta, at 4,500 meters above sea level, in the district of Corpanqui. This discovery definitively undermined the official version that denied the arrests made by the Special Operations Directorate of the National Police. On …
Shining Path murdered the parents of one affiant in the plaza de armas, leaving eight siblings orphaned. The affiant describes the event as painful and a total trauma for all who witnessed the savagery, killing the father with no compassion for the eight siblings who were left orphaned and adrift. …
The PCP-SL murdered five people in the district of Huancapon, Cajatambo province. The victims were Mayor Juan Lizzeti Torres, Justice of the Peace Willy Lizzetti Salazar, Lieutenant Governor Inocente Cabanillas Rosales, and two teachers: Ángeles Concepción Chávez y Solís. These murders were part of the Shining Path strategy of eliminating …
During the night of June 21, 1989, 21 days after the disappearance of Haro Cruz and Mautino Camones, three key witnesses to the events disappeared: siblings Ramón, Catalina and Fernando Robles Figueroa. According to the testimony of Juana Mercedes Guerrero León, several hooded men armed with shotguns arrived and took …
The lawyer Antenógenes Haro Cruz filed a formal complaint before the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Huaraz for the kidnapping and attempted murder of his brother Pedro Eduardo Haro Cruz and César Augusto Mautino Camones. The complaint details the facts that occurred on April 29 when both young men were intercepted …
Between 09:30 and 10:00 hours, Pedro Eduardo Haro Cruz and César Augusto Mautino Camones were intercepted while they were riding their bicycles along the Shansha Curve, 7 kilometers from Huaraz. Two unknown persons forced them to get into a closed orange van with license plate RE-5508, a CORDE Ancash vehicle …
In 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated three local authorities in Raquia as part of its strategy to create a power vacuum by eliminating local leaders. The victims were Mayor Emiliano Diaz, Judge Sabino Aguirre and the Secretary of CORDE Ancash. These murders were part of an escalation of violence in the …
Aider De la Cruz was executed by police forces in Raján, Ocros, accused of belonging to the ranks of the PCP-SL. This event occurred in the context of the police response against the Shining Path offensive that had spread between 1989 and 1990 to various localities. The execution was part …
In the context of the police response to the Shining Path offensive in the region, police forces apprehended and disappeared Mamerta Patricio and Norma Higinio Requena in Raján, Ocros, at different times during 1989. These disappearances were part of a broader pattern of arbitrary detentions and forced disappearances carried out …
In 1989, in the province of Bolognesi, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso set fire to a TRANVICSA bus that was traveling between Chiquián and Aquia. During the attack, the hikers murdered Isaac Carmen, who was the owner of the vehicle. The murder was in retaliation for not having complied with …
In 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated several people in Raján, Ocros, including Rosario Rojas (Vice President of the Community), Abraham Castillo (Mayor), Martín Rojas, Samuray Rojas and Hitler Rojas. The latter three were apparently killed for asking for quotas on behalf of the PCP-SL. The violence continued in 1991 when Eva …
On October 13, 1988, the peasants of the Callejón de Huaylas began a strike to demand lower prices for agricultural inputs. This mobilization took place in the context of a serious national economic crisis and coincided with a national strike called by the CGTP in protest against the economic measures …
In 1988, the Maza brothers were murdered in the town of Nunumia by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. They were accused of cattle rustling by the subversive organization. This murder was part of a series of executions of people considered 'undesirable' or of 'anti-social behavior' that the PCP-SL carried out in the …
Between 1987 and 1988, in the Nunumia, Cochas, Paca and Colpa basins in the provinces of Bolognesi and Ocros, the PCP-SL carried out murders of people considered to have "antisocial behavior" as part of its territorial control strategy. In 1987, in Huayllacayán, Bolognesi province, the PCP-SL killed a peasant woman …
In June 1985, members of the military forces of the PCP-SL executed four people in Pacllón, Bolognesi province, accused of having denounced the PCP-SL. The victims were Máximo Ibarra Paucar, Director of the Educational Center; Abelardo Duran Padilla, Judge; Sósimo Mendoza Huaranga, teacher; and Joel Mendoza Huaranga, farmer. This is …
Between 1985 and 1986, an armed Shining Path column executed four people in Pacllón, Bolognesi province. The victims were Máximo Ibarra Paucar (director of the Educational Center), Judge Abelardo Duran Carrera, teacher Zósimo Mendoza Huaranga and farmer Joel Mendoza Huaranga. All of them were accused by the PCP-SL of having …
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