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.
PNP Colonel Manuel Alberto Tumba, head of the Administration Division of DINCOTE and part of the team that intervened in the capture of Abimael Guzmán, was treacherously murdered by a Shining Path special detachment when he was walking to his car a block away from his home. He had been …
On November 5, 1992, at approximately 8:30 in the morning, PNP Colonel Manuel Tumba Ortega was killed by a special detachment of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso when he was leaving his home to buy a newspaper. The attackers 'Jeremías' (Gerardo Salinas Galarza) and 'Enrique' (Juan Gutiérrez Quispe) shot him in the …
On Sunday, July 29, 1992, a detachment of the PCP-SL raided the district of Inchupalla, province of Huancané, where they murdered five people. The victims were Pedro Pascual Vilca Canaza, secretary of the Inchupalla district council; Santiago Chuquija Ingalla, Lieutenant Governor; Artemio Sancho Sancho Sancho, District Justice of the Peace; …
On January 26, 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated two women in the locality of Quiñota, province of Chumbivilcas, department of Cuzco. The murders were carried out after a 'popular trial', a characteristic practice of the PCP-SL to justify their executions. This event occurred in the context of the Shining Path offensive …
Víctor Acuña Cárdenas, pastor of Magdalena Parish in Huamanga, Ayacucho, and director of Caritas of Ayacucho, was murdered by elements of the PCP-SL on December 3, 1987. The assassins were identified as members of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path. This assassination was part of the selective annihilation …
Sergeant Francisco Santos Juscamayta Alejos (32 years old) boarded an urban transport vehicle after finishing his work. Three people of peasant appearance with a white sack and a woman got on with him. When the minibus arrived at the El Tambo sector, the assassins opened his sack, took out firearms, …
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