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.
On April 4, 1995, a subversive column of the PCP-SL formed by approximately 20 people intercepted a bus of the "Sanchez Lopez" Company that covered the route Huamachuco-Trujillo, at the height of the "El Toro" lagoon. This place is significant because ten years earlier, in 1985, two officers of the …
In 1994, the PCP-SL again raided the town of Andajes, killing six people. This was the second violent incursion by the PCP-SL in this locality, after a first attack in 1990 where they had selectively assassinated five local authorities. The aggressiveness of the Shining Path against Andajes exemplifies their strategy …
Cosme Ríos, head of the ronderos of the Siusa annex, was killed along with another member of the defense force there by presumed subversives. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that also took place in the towns of Paccha, Tiso, Suytucancha and Ñahuinpuquio during the same …
In August 1993, the Shining Path PCP assassinated a councilman in Naranjillo, a town very close to Tingo Maria. This murder was part of a series of violent actions carried out by the Shining Path in the region during that period, which also included the murder of five soldiers in …
In August 1993, some 200 subversives of the Shining Path PCP, among them natives, attacked the communities of Santa Isabel, Monte Rico, Jerusalén, San Isidro, Tahuantinsuyo and Irriari in the central jungle. During the assault, in addition to murdering the authorities and teachers of these communities, the subversives committed acts …
Pedro Huilca was assassinated in December 1992, probably by members of the paramilitary group Colina. The assassination occurred in a context of intensifying violence in Lima, particularly in the popular cones, where the transfer of the "dirty war" from the countryside to the city was being denounced. This crime took …
On November 5, 1992, a group of hikers entered the town of Zarin, in the province of Sanchez Carrion (Huamachuco) at night. During this incursion, the PCP-SL selectively assassinated three local authorities: the Judge, the Governor and the Mayor of the town. This attack was part of the Shining Path's …
In September 1992, in Campo Alegre La Grama, San Marcos province, the PCP-SL assassinated Alipio Arroyo. The victim was the father of the then mayor of Cajamarca. This assassination took place in the context of the Shining Path strategy of selective assassinations against authorities and people linked to local political …
On May 17, 1992, the Shining Path PCP raided the annex of Quiparacra, located in the district of Huachon. In the presence of the assembled villagers, the subversive column assassinated seven local authorities who had decided to confront the threats and remain in their posts. This attack was part of …
On May 13, 1992, the main PCP-SL force in Canchis carried out a series of selective assassinations in the district of San Pedro. The Shining Pathists assassinated the mayor, the governor, the president of the potable water system and a local leader. During the raid, they also burned the municipal …
Juan Crisóstomo Casasola Zavala, former leader of the "Canto Grande" housing association and deputy director of the Ricardo Palma National Mixed School, was murdered on April 30, 1992. His death occurred in the context of a wave of selective murders against neighborhood leaders in San Juan de Lurigancho during April …
On April 29, 1992, a leader of the housing association 'Proyectos Especiales' was assassinated in the intermediate zone of the district of San Juan de Lurigancho. This assassination occurred in the context of a wave of violence against neighborhood leaders in the district during April 1992. The attack took place …
In April 1992, the brother of the neighborhood leader of the human settlement 'Esmeralda de los Andes' (Huanta), located in San Juan de Lurigancho, was murdered. This murder took place in the context of a wave of violence against neighborhood leaders in the district during that month. The attack was …
On March 31, 1992, the PCP-SL assassinated Zacarías Magallanes Mejía, a promoter belonging to the NGO IDEAS and one of the founders of the Huaycán human settlement. This murder marked the beginning of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against officials of non-governmental organizations. Magallanes Mejía was a community leader …
On March 24, 1992, the PCP-SL assassinated three leaders of the peasant patrols of the Chaquicocha peasant community as they were on their way to Huancayo. This occurred in the district of Pilcomayo, province of Huancayo, in the context of the confrontation between the peasant self-defense organizations and the subversive …
Zacarías Magallanes, a leader of the Huaycán human settlement, was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP in March 1992. This assassination occurred in the context of the political dispute for control of the Huaycán neighborhood organization, where the PCP-SL had suffered a political defeat in April 1991 when the delegates …
On February 10, 1992, an elderly watchman was murdered in Villa El Salvador by the Shining Path PCP. After the murder, a sign was placed on him with the inscription "Así mueren los soplones" ("This is how informers die"), as a warning to the population. This event occurred in a …
On Sunday, February 2, 1992, a Shining Path PCP contingent of approximately fifty men entered several ranches in the district of Ulcumayo, in Junin. In Huallamayo, Juan Cordova and three of his sons were murdered for promoting the organization of a peasant patrol. This assassination was part of a caravan …
On February 2, 1992, a PCP-SL contingent of approximately 50 men carried out a series of violent raids in several towns. In Huallamayo, Juan Córdova and three of his sons were murdered for promoting the organization of a peasant patrol. This action was part of a caravan of terror that …
Andrés Sosa, former leader of Patria Libre, was assassinated by a commando of the MRTA (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru) on January 25, 1992. This assassination occurred in the context of the intensification of political violence in Metropolitan Lima, during the period of greatest subversive activity in the capital. It occurred …
On January 13, 1992, a worker from the first sector of Villa El Salvador was shot at the door of his home. This murder occurred in the context of an escalation of violence by the Shining Path PCP in the district, which sought to increase its control over neighborhood organizations …
In 1992, Shining Path militants assassinated in Barranca the provincial mayoral candidate Orlando Tapia, who belonged to the Popular Action party. In the same event, Santiago Jau, owner of Radio Fortaleza, was assassinated. These selective assassinations were part of the PCP-SL strategy of attacking political authorities and public figures in …
In 1992, in the town of Caraqueño, Barranca province, a paramilitary group murdered six people. The victims were identified as Ernesto Arias Velásquez (teacher), César Rodríguez Esquivel (farmer), Felandro Castillo Manrique (farmer), John Calderón Ríos (student), Toribio Aponte Ortiz (farmer) and Pedro Agüero Rivera (driver). The report states that this …
In 1992, Shining Path militants assassinated the Mayor of the District of Huaura, Jesús Morales Bermúdez, along with employee Róger Huerta. This murder was part of a series of selective assassinations perpetrated by the PCP-SL in the coastal provinces since 1992, the year of Abimael Guzmán's capture. The Shining Path's …
In 1992, in the province of Barranca, six hooded men murdered Marco Antonio Martínez Morales. This murder occurred in the context of a series of crimes that the local population attributes to 'paramilitary groups' or the 'Colina Group'. The perpetrators of the crime have not been officially identified, although there …
Irene Gonzales Camones, General Secretary of Cambio 90 in the province of Huaura, was assassinated by Shining Path militants in 1992. This assassination was part of a series of selective assassinations by the PCP-SL against political authorities in the coastal provinces. In the same context, the Mayor of the District …
On September 14, 1991, on the eve of the anniversary of the Juan Pablo II human settlement, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated two neighborhood leaders: Fortunato Collazos Crispín, deputy secretary general, and Alfredo Aguirre Berrocal, secretary of press and propaganda. These murders were part of the Shining Path's strategy to take …
On August 30, 1991, journalist and Cambio 90 leader Gustavo Zuñiga was shot and killed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the city of Juliaca. This assassination took place in the context of an upsurge of subversive violence in Puno during 1991, especially of urban annihilation commandos. The crime was part …
On August 18, 1991, the head of the National Civil Defense Institute in Juliaca was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of selective executions of authorities and public officials that the PCP-SL carried out during that period in the department of Puno. The attack …
On August 18, 1991, the head of the National Civil Defense Institute in Juliaca was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of violent actions perpetrated by the subversive organization in Puno during 1991, which included the assassination of authorities and political leaders. The attack …
On July 19, 1991, paramilitaries or law enforcement agents in civilian clothes carried out a covert operation at the home of university professor Francisco Solier García. The professor was murdered along with his wife and son using weapons with silencers. This crime was part of a series of murders perpetrated …
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Professor Iván Pérez, professor at the Faculty of Economics of the San Antonio Abad National University of Cuzco. Perez was a militant of the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP Unidad) and was an advisor to the provincial mayor of Cuzco, Daniel Estrada. This assassination took place in …
On June 23, 1991, the PCP-SL assassinated Alejandro Magno Gómez, prefect of the district of Villa El Salvador and member of Cambio 90, the ruling party. This assassination marked the first act of an escalation of violence in the framework of the Shining Path strategy of creating a power vacuum …
In June 1991, the Movimiento de Obreros y Trabajadores Clasistas (MOTC), a front organization of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, initiated a wave of violence against the Tejidos La Unión factory in Ate Vitarte, assassinating company officials. This attack occurred after the PCP-SL failed in its attempts to win union leadership in …
On May 22, 1991, a Shining Path column raided Huasahuasi, a district in the province of Tarma. In this attack, four people were killed: the nun Irene McCormack, the community president Pedro Pando, the former deputy mayor Alfredo Morales and the leader Agustín Vento. This event was part of the …
Porfirio Suni Quispe, professor, peasant leader and representative of the United Left (IU) in the government of the José Carlos Mariátegui Region, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in Juliaca on May 14, 1991. Previously, on May 5, 1988, Suni had been arrested and tortured, falsely accused of participating in …
Congressman Alejandro Victoria Mendoza, a member of the Cambio 90 party, was assassinated in the district of Ate Vitarte, Lima. This crime took place in the context of an escalation of political violence in the Peruvian capital, where both the PCP-SL and the MRTA were intensifying their actions against authorities …
In November 1990, the PCP-SL raided the town of Andajes with the aim of carrying out selective assassinations against local authorities. The victims were Alejandro Torres, Heracleo Segundo, Juan Segundo, Cornejo and Tito, most of them local authorities. This attack exemplifies the aggressiveness of the Shining Path against villages that …
Laurentino Mendoza Janampa was President of the Ronda Campesina and Community Prosecutor of the community of Pucurhuay, Ticlacayán district, Pasco province. In May 1988, after a confrontation between a military patrol and a group of hikers in Pucurhuay, the villagers formed the Civil Defense Committee (CDC) and elected Laurentino Mendoza …
On October 4, 1990, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the Deputy Mayor in the district of Sanagorán, province of Sánchez Carrión. This assassination is part of the PCP-SL's systematic strategy of eliminating local authorities in the Huamachuco region. Previously, in 1984, the PCP-SL had already assassinated Mayor Alejandro Polo Baca and …
Valentín López Molina, director in charge of the Higher Pedagogical Institute of Huancavelica, was murdered on September 14, 1990. The CVR report notes that it is difficult to establish the authorship of this murder, suggesting that it could have been committed by both subversive forces and State agents. This crime …
Ciro Aramburú, head of University Welfare at the San Cristóbal de Huamanga National University (UNSCH), was murdered on July 24, 1990. His death occurred in the context of a wave of violence against members of the university community in Huamanga. The murder was perpetrated by paramilitary commandos operating in the …
Fernando Colonio, a lawyer working for the National University of San Cristobal de Huamanga (UNSCH), was murdered on July 21, 1990 by undercover law enforcement agents. Colonio had made a series of denunciations of fundamental rights violations by the security forces. His murder took place in the context of a …
On July 3, 1990, three PCP-SL subversives assassinated the Provincial Prosecutor in the town of Pampas, province of Tayacaja, department of Huancavelica. This selective assassination occurred in the context of the PCP-SL's national offensive in 1990, when the death toll increased significantly in the provinces of Tayacaja and Churcampa. The …
On June 15, 1990, PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants assassinated the governor of the district of La Merced in Churcampa, Huancavelica. This assassination was part of a series of selective executions carried out by the PCP-SL against local authorities and alleged collaborators of the military forces in the area. The governor was …
On April 13, 1990, in the district of La Merced, province of Churcampa, a married couple was murdered by militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This murder occurred in the context of the PCP-SL's national offensive, which significantly increased the death toll in the provinces of Tayacaja and Churcampa. The victims …
On the night of February 19, 1990, a group of people with their faces covered with balaclavas and armed with rifles took the capital of the Cochas district, presenting themselves to the population as MRTA militants. One of the hooded men read out a list of names, among them Cirilo …
On February 17, 1990, two villagers were murdered in the district of La Merced, province of Churcampa, Huancavelica. The murders were perpetrated by militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, who accused the victims of "collaborating" with the military. This occurred in the context of the PCP-SL's national offensive in 1990, when …
On February 5, 1990, the mayor of the district of Cachachi, Eleuterio Roncal, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Tambería Cachachi, Cajabamba province. This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy of systematic elimination of local authorities who resisted their political-military project or who did …
On February 2, 1990, in the community of Marayniyoc, there was a surprise Shining Path incursion that resulted in the death of several ronderos and community authorities. The fallen ronderos were Bernardino Parado, Felipe Sosa, Erquinio Sosa and Avelino Salazar. Feliciano Suárez, who was president of the community, was also …
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