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.
In August 1993, three groups of between 100 and 300 people, composed of subversives and masa (settlers and natives of all ages), attacked seven communities in the Tsiriari valley. During these assaults they killed 36 settlers and 21 natives, totaling 57 fatalities. The attackers took food, household goods, medicines and …
On May 14, 1992, the Shining Path PCP carried out coordinated assaults on three annexes in the district of Ulcumayo, in the province and department of Junin. This action was part of a broader campaign known as the 'caravan of death' that the PCP-SL executed in the area during 1992 …
On November 7, 1989, a group of PCP-SL militants assaulted the police post in the city of La Oroya. As a result of the attack, three policemen were wounded. This assault took place in the context of the V Shining Path Plan to 'Develop Bases in function of the Conquest …
Days after the attack on Muñani, a force of approximately one hundred PCP-SL individuals assaults the mining settlement of San Antonio de Poto. Nine policemen, a governor and the mayors of Ananea and San Juan del Oro are killed in this attack. The action is part of the campaign to …
A group of MRTA assaulted the Santa Rosa parish in Tacna and took a mimeograph. This assault is part of the MRTA's actions of stealing materials and equipment from Church institutions. Unlike Sendero Luminoso, the MRTA was looking more for rapprochement and infiltration than direct attack.
A commando made up of 15 members of the MRTA assaulted the Cromotes textile factory located at kilometer 3 of the central highway in Ate Vitarte. During the attack, the subversives destroyed several administrative offices and part of the plant's warehouses. This assault was part of the armed actions that …
In January 1987, the commanders of the East Zonal Committee of the PCP-SL coordinated the assault on the Nylon Factory. This zonal committee was considered of great importance for concentrating the proletariat in Ate Vitarte and for establishing the 'Shining Trench of Combat' of the Canto Grande prison. The assault …
On January 25, 1985, the first assault on a police post in the region took place in San Sebastian, near the city of Cusco. This attack marked the beginning of the violent actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against the forces of law and order in the department of Cusco. Two …
On May 17, 1984, the town of Pomabamba in Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, was attacked by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This attack was part of a series of subversive actions in the Apurimac River Valley during that period. Days earlier, on May 3, the town of Villa Virgen in the …
The Escorpio group carried out operations of annihilation, robberies and assaults of commercial houses in Ayacucho between 1984-85 and mid-1990. These operations were directed by Captain EP Martin Rivas, who responded to personal interests and operated in collusion with his commandos, taking advantage of the impunity granted by his membership …
On December 23, 1982, a contingent of PCP-SL militants assaulted the Colqui mine, located in the district of Huancavelica. During this assault, the subversives seized 1500 sticks of dynamite. This action was part of a broader PCP-SL strategy that included sabotage to the Mantaro electric transmission network, the destruction of …
On October 29, 1982, a group of PCP-SL subversives assaulted and looted the store of one of the main kube hoarders in Santa Rosa. This assault occurred in a context where the Peasant Federation of the Apurimac River Valley (FECVRA) had decided to enter directly into the commercialization of products …
On October 1, 1982 there was an assault on the Civil Guard post located in Erapata, district of Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, Quillabamba. During this attack, one Civil Guard died. This event is part of the first armed actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Apurimac river valley area. …
On September 8, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an assault on the Huancapi prison in the province of Fajardo. This event took place in the context of a series of armed actions aimed at expelling the police from rural areas and consolidating the territorial control of the PCP-SL in …
On August 3, 1982, more than a hundred armed individuals assaulted the Allpachaca hacienda, belonging to the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University (UNSCH). This attack was part of the escalation of political violence in Ayacucho during that period. The assault took place in the context of the military campaigns …
On July 11, 1982, a group of subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso took the town of Ñuñungayo, located in the district of Vilca, province of Huancavelica. During this raid, the Shining Path militants assaulted the village's communal store. This action is part of the first "town seizures" that the PCP-SL …
Ten hooded attackers, disguised and armed with machine guns, assaulted the towns of Chuschi and Cachacancha in the province of Cangallo, Ayacucho. This attack took place in the context of the military campaign known as 'Batir I', which took place from July 1982 to October 1982. The assault was part …
The PCP-SL assaults a prison in Cerro de Pasco on June 28. This assault was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to free its imprisoned militants and demonstrate its operational capacity in different regions of the country.
Five MRTA subversives, including Víctor Polay Campos and Jorge Talledo Feria, robbed a bank in the district of La Victoria. When two of the subversives tried to immobilize the policeman guarding the bank, he fired his submachine gun. One of the bullets ricocheted on the floor and mortally wounded Talledo …
On May 15, 1982, the PCP-SL again assaulted the town of Tambo, finding the town unguarded by police. This was the second attack on the town, after a first attack on the police post on October 11, 1981. The October 11, 1981 attack had shown the deficiency and weakness of …
On April 1, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an assault on the Civil Guard post of Pacucha, in the province of Andahuaylas. This attack was part of a series of initial armed actions by the PCP-SL in the area, which included assaults on police posts, takeovers of villages and …
The PCP-SL carried out the assault on the prison (CRAS) in the city of Ayacucho, the most important military action in this period. In this action the main detachments that the SL had managed to form in its Main Regional Committee converged. It was as a result of this assault …
The assault on the High Security Prison (CRAS) of Huamanga took place, from where 304 inmates managed to escape, of which approximately 70 were hikers. The attackers spread throughout the city, dispersing and pinning down the police with gunfire while they subdued the prison guards. The Army troops did not …
Members of the PCP-SL assault Ayacucho prison. They escaped 247 prisoners (other sources mention 304), among them Edith Lagos Saenz. This was one of the most daring assaults of the PCP-SL and demonstrated its operational capacity. The assault lasted between March 2 and 3, 1982.
The PCP-SL carried out the assault on the Huamanga prison in the department of Ayacucho. This action was very well planned and had a great impact. It was decisive for the MRTA's entry into the armed struggle, according to Peter Cárdenes Schulte. The attack demonstrated the operational capacity of the …
Shining Path command assaulted the Huamanga CRAS and rescued its prisoners, managing to escape without an adequate response from the police forces. The assault on the Huamanga prison forced different observers to consider the PCP-SL as a major threat. Hours after the attack, a group of members of the Republican …
The Shining Path PCP carried out an assault on the CRAS prison (Centro de Readaptación Social) of Huamanga in March 1982, managing to escape prisoners. This was one of the events of greatest impact during the initial period of the internal armed conflict, together with the assaults on police posts …
In January 1982, the Shining Path PCP carried out an assault on the San José police post. After the attack, columns of PCP-SL members fled to Uchuraccay to hide and later dispersed to various localities. The attackers arrived in Uchuraccay where they even danced in front of the town's cemetery …
50 people led by a group of armed hikers razed the Tambo police post in the province of La Mar, Ayacucho. They seized two submachine guns, three revolvers and killed three policemen. During the assault they threw acid in the face of the guards defending the post. The slogan of …
On January 21, 1981, the Civil Guard post of Mollebamba in the province of Cangallo was assaulted by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This attack was part of a series of sustained offensives against the police during 1981, with the aim of pushing back the forces of law and order and generating …
On December 6, 1980, there was an assault on the warehouse of the Ministry of Transportation in the city of Puno. This event was one of the first violent actions registered in the department of Puno during the beginning of the internal armed conflict. The assault occurred in the context …
Unknown persons assaulted and destroyed the production center of the radio program El Día del Pueblo, of radio Santa Rosa, of the Dominican Fathers, stealing documents and goods and painting the walls with slogans such as 'Cowardly Communists', 'Long live neo-fascism' and others. This attack shows the existence of paramilitary …
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