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 February 6, 1992, four murders took place in Comas, attributed to paramilitary groups. This event occurred in a context of intense violence in the Northern Zone of Lima, where subversive groups as well as law enforcement and paramilitary groups were operating simultaneously. The murders were part of what many …
During February 1992, the PCP-SL intensified its attacks against popular leaders, local authorities and ronderos in Lima. Among the targets were leaders of the Bocanegra human settlement and the mayor of Comas, Humberto Paredes. The most emblematic case was the assassination of María Elena Moyano Delgado on February 15, who …
In November 1991, paramilitary groups carried out four murders in the district of Carabayllo, in the Northern Zone of Metropolitan Lima. These murders took place in a context of increasing political violence in the area, where subversive groups as well as law enforcement and paramilitary groups were operating simultaneously. The …
On October 27, 1991 there was a mobilization to repudiate the attacks called by the Municipality of San Juan de Lurigancho. This mobilization took place after the assassinations of the general sub-secretary Fortunato Collazos Crispín and the press and propaganda secretary Alfredo Aguirre Berrocal, which occurred on September 14, 1991 …
On June 7, 1991, a contingent of subversives from the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the district of La Merced and carried out a massacre against local authorities and villagers. The victims were Prospero Valencia Porras (district mayor) and his wife Rufina Guevara; Oswaldo Porras Valencia and his wife Juana Santos Mancco; …
During the period 1991-1992, the PCP-SL intensified a process of threats, intimidation and selective assassinations against leaders of popular women's organizations, mainly in Lima and Callao. The PCP-SL considered these organizations as opposition forces that impeded the development of their plans in the city. Among the leaders assassinated were Juana …
In 1991, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a series of selective assassinations in Santiago de Chuco as part of its strategy of eliminating local authorities and people considered enemies of its political-military project. The victims included the mayor, the sub-prefect, an APRA leader and a local hospital worker. These murders …
In November 1990, the PCP-SL raided the town of Andajes to carry 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 rejected their political-military …
Between 1989 and 1990, the PCP-SL intensified its actions in the province of Satipo through the forced recruitment of young people and children, the clandestine indoctrination of leaders and authorities of settler communities, and the selective assassination of settlers. Due to its strategy of systematic terror, by 1990 the PCP-SL …
In 1990, the PCP-SL committed selective assassinations in the colonist communities of Unión, Santa Isabel, Dos de Mayo and San Francisco de Cubaro in the province of Satipo. These assassinations were part of the terror strategy implemented by the Shining Path to control a large part of the province. The …
1989 was the year with the highest number of deaths of authorities and elected representatives in the entire conflict. It registered 68% of political authorities and 71% of municipal authorities assassinated in the entire decade. Approximately 53 provincial and district mayors were assassinated that year (33% of the total between …
In 1989, the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) significantly intensified its actions in the province of Satipo, reaching absolute control of the entire Ene River and the Alto Tambo up to the Poyeni bend by 1990. During this year, PCP-SL increased its actions in the area, carrying …
During 1989, the PCP-SL significantly intensified its actions in the Central Jungle, particularly in the province of Satipo. The presence of the PCP-SL in the area became widespread and open, increasing its visits to native communities and carrying out looting accompanied by initial indoctrination of the population through prolonged meetings. …
During 1989, the PCP-SL intensified its actions in the province of Chanchamayo, carrying out raids in various native communities and peasant annexes. The subversive group carried out "popular trials" and assassinated authorities and inhabitants of the area. One of the best known cases was the murder of an entire family …
Between 1988 and 1989, the PCP-SL (Shining Path) began its armed incursions into the hamlets of the province of Padre Abad involved in the defense of coca leaf cultivation. These incursions were part of the second stage of the Shining Path's presence in Ucayali, when they assumed the defense of …
In 1987, the PCP-SL (Shining Path) committed the first selective assassinations of authorities in the colonist communities of Satipo province. These assassinations marked the beginning of a systematic strategy of terror that the PCP-SL would implement in the region during the following years. The selective assassinations were part of a …
Between 1987 and 1990, the PCP-SL established control over a large part of the province of Satipo through a strategy of systematic terror. In 1987 they began the first selective assassinations of authorities in colonist communities. During 1989 they intensified the forced recruitment of young people and children in both …
The presence of PCP-SL militants in the districts of Ninacaca and Vicco, province of Pasco, has been registered since 1986, arriving later than in other areas of the department. Two years later, in 1988, the leaders of the Ninacaca Communal Cooperative were assassinated, while some animals were slaughtered to supply …
Between 1985 and 1988, the Shining Path commanders of the PCP-SL carried out selective assassinations of alleged delinquents or 'informers' in the colonist villages of the Central Jungle. The Asháninka population felt fear when they heard about these executions, but at the same time recognized a positive aspect in these …
In the Araqueda area a series of executions were carried out by the PCP-SL. In Corralpampa, Victorino Mora Villanueva, the evangelical brother Cirilo Ponce and another person identified as Mr. (the text does not provide the full name) were murdered. These murders were part of the PCP-SL's strategy of eliminating …
In 1981, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out assassinations in the SAIS Tahuantinsuyo, located in the province of Santiago de Chuco. According to the report, the PCP-SL assassinated more than 6 people in this Agricultural Society of Social Interest. This event is part of the initial strategy of the PCP-SL to …
In 1981, during the first wave of PCP-Sendero Luminoso violence in the province of Santiago de Chuco, members of the main Shining Path Shining Path forces carried out selective assassinations as part of their strategy to destroy the agrarian cooperatives. In SAIS San José, the Shining Path killed the administrator …
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