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.
Between January 15 and 25, 2003, interviews were conducted with representatives of the Regional Association of Indigenous Peoples of the Central Jungle (ARPI) and the Asháninka Emergency Commission (CEA) in the city of Satipo. These interviews were part of the TRC's fieldwork to document the effects of the internal armed …
In December 2002, testimonies were collected highlighting the discrimination and stigmatization faced by individuals from Ayacucho and Ashaninka communities in Peru. These groups suffered from societal prejudice due to their ethnic and regional origins, leading to marginalization and a negative impact on their self-esteem and identity. The testimonies also revealed …
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission made its third visit to the Asháninka area of the Central Jungle between November 19 and December 9, 2002. This visit was part of a series of four visits made on three separate dates to interview villagers and authorities of the Asháninka communities. The objective …
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission made its second visit to the Asháninka area of the Central Jungle between October 10 and 29, 2002. This was part of a total of four visits made on three separate dates to interview villagers and authorities of the Asháninka communities. The objective was to …
In October 2002, various workshops were held in Peru focusing on reconciliation and justice. Indigenous communities, such as the Asháninka, advocated for the recognition and coordination of their traditional justice systems with the national legal framework. Additionally, discussions emphasized the need for police reform to enhance community service and accountability.
In order to interview residents and authorities of the Asháninka communities and discuss with them the results of the reports, four visits were made to the area on three separate dates. The first visit was carried out from September 16 to 29, 2002. The study focused on the areas that …
In September 2002, communities in regions such as Pucallpa, Ucayali, and Satipo, Junín, expressed fear over the potential resurgence of the PCP-SL (Shining Path) insurgent group. The Asháninka people, who had previously suffered from massacres and mass abductions, felt unprotected and feared a return to violence. These fears were exacerbated …
The Asháninka communities in Peru have experienced significant disruption due to violence, leading to a loss of familial ties and low levels of organization. This has hindered development projects and created distrust and fear among community members. Efforts towards reconciliation are challenged by differing memories and explanations of the violence, …
During the internal conflict in Peru, the Asháninka people faced severe persecution from the militant group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). The group viewed the Asháninka as obstacles to their revolutionary goals, leading to acts of violence and attempts to erase their cultural identity. The Asháninka were subjected to forced displacement, …
The PCP-SL (Shining Path) used fear and intimidation to control Asháninka communities in Peru. They threatened the Asháninka with punishment, torture, and death for non-compliance or dissent. The group spread distrust within communities and families, and manipulated the Asháninka into fearing the military, further isolating them.
In the early 2000s, the Asháninka people in the Ene Valley faced pressure from the PCP-SL (Shining Path) who sought to militarize their communities. Despite the threats, some Asháninkas resisted the PCP-SL's influence, recalling reports of violence in Ayacucho and distrusting the promises made by the group. Many Asháninkas chose …
In 1995, the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, Francis Deng, visited the Asháninka area in the central jungle of Peru. The purpose of his visit was to raise international awareness of the grave humanitarian situation faced by the Asháninka people as a result of the internal armed conflict. This visit …
In 1995, the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, Francis Deng, visited the Asháninka area to report on their situation. That same year, the National Human Rights Coordinator published a report on the disappearance of Asháninka communities. During the internal armed conflict, out of 55,000 Asháninka, nearly 10,000 were forcibly displaced …
In 1995, the PCP-SL (Shining Path) retreated towards the Ene region in Peru, leading to a temporary sense of tranquility in the area. However, the threat of PCP-SL persisted, prompting local communities to continue vigilance. The region, historically inhabited by the Asháninka and Nomatsiguenga peoples, faced significant challenges due to …
In 1995, the Puerto Ocopa patrol or Self-Defense Committee, which had been created on its own initiative in 1991, sought independence from the colonist patrol command led by Natalio Sánchez. Until then, this Asháninka round had been under the direct dependence of the Army and the colonist patrols, which caused …
In 1995, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Francis Deng, visited the Selva Central region of Peru to highlight the situation of the Asháninka communities. The Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos published a report on the disappearance of these communities, which were significantly affected by the internal armed conflict. …
The return of the displaced Asháninka communities was not uniform, with each community following a different pattern. The lack of a government plan to facilitate this process led to various strategies, with gradual and community-led returns proving most successful. The return process was fraught with challenges, including the destruction of …
The Great Asháninka March marked the official beginning of the return process for families displaced by violence in the Selva Central region of Peru. Initiated by the government and the Armed Forces, the campaign aimed to resettle over 500 individuals back to their original communities. However, the full return of …
On September 17, 1994, the process of returning the Asháninka communities to their places of origin in the district of Río Tambo officially began as part of a campaign promoted by the government to generate a psychosocial impact on the Peruvian population. The media called this event 'the great Asháninka …
Between June and July 1994, the PCP-SL murdered around 70 natives it held captive in Quenteroni, located in the upper zone of the native community of Samaniato, in the Ene River basin. This event occurred in the context of the absolute control that the PCP-SL had achieved over the Ene …
In 1994, CART (Central Asháninka del Río Tambo) was reactivated after years of violence in the Central Jungle. This indigenous organization managed to reorganize and held its VII Congress that year. The reactivation of CART was part of a broader process of restructuring of indigenous organizations that began to function …
On August 11, 1993, 54 Asháninka natives were brutally murdered with machetes by suspected members of the Shining Path (PCP-SL) in Satipo, Junín. This tragic event highlights the severe impact of the internal conflict in Peru on indigenous communities, who were often caught in the crossfire between government forces and …
On August 11, 1993, 54 Asháninka natives were brutally murdered with machetes in the region of Junín, Satipo. This event is part of a series of violent acts against indigenous communities during the internal conflict in Peru. The Asháninka people have been targeted due to their resistance against subversive groups.
On 30 September 1993, the Central de Comunidades Nativas de la Selva Central (CECONSEC) addressed the Dirección Contra el Terrorismo (DINCOTE) in Chanchamayo, Peru, requesting the release of 14 Ashaninka ronderos. These individuals were reportedly involved in a confrontation with subversives who had been committing crimes in native communities. The …
On September 20, 1993, the Peruvian government denounced to the UN the massacre committed by the PCP-SL in the Tsiriari valley. This denunciation was made two days after the news of the massacre, which occurred on August 18, 1993, was disseminated by several media outlets. The Congress of the Republic …
On September 11, 1993, a group of armed Ashaninka natives attacked the Anexo Delta in Pichanaki, resulting in the deaths of 10 settlers and injuries to two others. The attack was reportedly motivated by accusations that the victims refused to join the local peasant patrols. The incident was later reported …
On September 11, 1993, a group of Ashaninka ronderos entered the Delta de Pichanaki annex and killed ten settlers, leaving two others wounded because they did not want to organize themselves into counter-subversive patrols. This event illustrates the human rights violations committed by the native patrols in their attempt to …
Numerous mass graves with the remains of hundreds of Ashaninka natives murdered by the PCP-SL were found in the Ene Valley, province of Satipo, Junin, by a commission formed by the provincial prosecutor Florencia Grandes, EP commander Antonio Venegas (political-military chief of the Central Jungle Security Subzone), among other members.
On August 18, 1993, a group of 150 to 300 individuals, including Asháninka natives, entered eight communities in the Tsiriari Valley, killing 72 residents, including 16 minors, and injuring 10 others. Initially attributed to the Sendero Luminoso, these crimes were later linked to an officer from the Contrasubversive Base No. …
On 18 August 1993, an incursion by the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) resulted in the massacre of 62 Asháninka people, including men, women, and children, along the banks of the Río Sonomoro. This event was part of a broader pattern of violence in which both insurgent and counterinsurgent forces committed …
On August 18, 1993, three groups of alleged hikers, between one hundred and three hundred men, women and children, settlers and natives, entered seven communities in the Tsiriari valley. The communities attacked were Monterrico, San Isidro, Sol de Oro, Union Cubaro, San Francisco de Cubaro and Santa Isabel (colonists) and …
Members of the PCP-SL murdered 65 inhabitants of the Tsiriari valley in Mazamari, Junín, in retaliation for the formation of Self-Defense Committees. Although it was known as an Asháninka massacre, of the total number of victims, 21 were Nomatsiguenga natives and the rest were settlers. This is one of the …
Between 150 and 300 people, accompanied by Asháninka natives, entered eight communities in the Tsiriari Valley, killing 72 villagers with bladed weapons, including 16 minors. They left 10 wounded, 8 of them minors. Rape and looting were committed. Initially attributed to Sendero Luminoso, it was later denounced the participation of …
On August 18, 1993, three Shining Path columns, each composed of approximately 70 settlers and natives, entered eight communities in the Tsiriari valley (six colonists and two Asháninka). The massacre began around 4:00 p.m. in the Nomatsiguenga Tahuantinsuyo community, where twenty-one people were killed, including children, men and women. The …
On August 18, 1993, a group of 150 to 300 unknown individuals, including natives, attacked several communities in the Tsiriari Valley. They killed 72 people, including 16 minors, and left 9 injured. The attack, characterized by extreme cruelty, was reportedly a retaliatory act by Sendero Luminoso against the Asháninkas who …
In February 1993, the commanders of the 'Wacapu' and 'Vista Alegre' base committees in Otica, named Maximo and Javier, coordinated the escape of both groups from Shining Path control. The escape took place on a Sunday morning at 3 o'clock in the morning. During the escape, Javier found his brother …
The native community of Tahuantinsuyo, located in the district of Mazamari in the Central Jungle, was the victim of a massacre in 1993 during the internal armed conflict. This community was selected as a case study by the CVR Report along with Cushiviani to document the effects of violence on …
Between 1993 and 1995, the number of Asháninkas rescued from the PCP-SL grew significantly as a result of the intensification of the counter-subversive struggle. Joint operations between the Army and the ronderos in the Tambo and Ene river valleys made it possible to free thousands of Asháninkas who had been …
The Asháninka people, an indigenous group in the Selva Central region of the Peruvian Amazon, suffered severe human rights abuses during the internal conflict involving the PCP-SL. These abuses included forced displacement, murder, enslavement, and other inhumane conditions. The actions against the Asháninka violated fundamental human rights and international humanitarian …
Between 1992 and 1993, the number of Asháninkas who attempted or succeeded in fleeing the Popular Committees controlled by the PCP-SL increased significantly. The Asháninkas rejected the living conditions in these committees, which functioned as concentration camps with forced labor, strict schedules, rigorous rules of conduct and loss of individual …
During 1991 and 1992 there were strong and continuous confrontations between the PCP-SL and the rondas or Asháninka self-defense committees in the Central Jungle. The year 1991 was the turning point in the Shining Path offensive in the region, when the Armed Forces together with the organized Asháninka population initiated …
In September 1991, a group of 169 Asháninkas from the community of Cutivireni were forcibly displaced due to repeated attacks by the Shining Path (PCP-SL). With the assistance of Father Mariano Gagnon, they were airlifted to the Urubamba Valley, where they found refuge with the Matsiguenga community of Kiriketi. This …
After suffering multiple PCP-SL attacks since 1988, including raids, looting, kidnappings of youths and assassinations of opponents, the Cutivireni Asháninkas who had not joined the subversive group fled to the bush, to a high part of the valley called Tzibokiroato. In September 1991, a group of 169 Cutivireni Asháninka were …
In September 1991, a group of 169 Asháninkas from Cutivireni were transferred by air to the Urubamba valley with the support of the Franciscan priest Mariano Gagnon, after suffering multiple attacks by the PCP-SL. In 1991, the Peruvian Army installed a military base in Cutivireni. Along with the installation of …
On May 14, 1991, the Sinchis (special forces of the Peruvian police) entered the community of Gloriabamba, located half an hour from Puerto Ocopa. This operation was led by three teachers who collaborated with the police. The Sinchis' entry was preceded by bombings, which alerted the population of the neighboring …
At the end of 1991, the Army entered the province of Satipo and compulsively organized the population into urban and peasant patrols. The native patrols, which had been confronting the PCP-SL on their own initiative, received support from the army. In 1991, the Ashaninka of the Ene and Tambo rivers …
During 1991 and 1992 there were strong and continuous confrontations between the PCP-SL and the Rondas or Asháninka Self-Defense Committees in the Central Jungle. The year 1991 was the turning point in the Shining Path offensive in the region, when the Armed Forces together with the organized Asháninka population initiated …
In 1991, the Asháninka people, alongside the Peruvian Armed Forces, launched a significant counteroffensive against the Shining Path (PCP-SL) in the region of the Ene River. This effort was marked by the formation of Rondas or Committees of Self-Defense, which played a crucial role in resisting the insurgent group. The …
In 1991, the Peruvian Army installed a counter-subversive base in Cutivireni, located in the district of Rio Tambo. This installation was part of a broader military strategy in which the Army established bases in strategic areas of the central jungle to combat the Shining Path PCP. The base was established …
By 1991, specialists and institutions estimated that out of 55,000 Asháninkas in the Central Jungle, about 10,000 were forcibly displaced in the Ene, Tambo and Perené valleys. It is estimated that 6,000 people died during the conflict and about 5,000 people were held captive under the control of the PCP-SL. …
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Survivors informed members of the Ministerio Público forensic team that four clandestine burials correspond to the native community of Matzuriniari, where, they say, "comrade Feliciano" was based. Meanwhile, residents of …
A forensic team has testimony of the existence of up to 160 Asháninka bodies. During two months of fieldwork in the central jungle of the department of Junín, a forensic …
In Pangoa. The native community of Unión Alto Saniveni was razed by terrorists in 1991, who murdered even children.
The Equipo Forense Especializado (EFE) visited Mapotoa and Yaynapango for a second time, on this occasion to carry out excavation work and the exhumation of the remains of Maribel María …
More than a hundred Asháninka residents were victims of a systematic massacre in Pangoa, Satipo, carried out by Sendero Luminoso in the early 1990s, according to the combined total of …
Ignorance and disinformation are the foundations upon which a certain sector of Fujimorismo seeks to discredit the CVR, claiming it did not specifically report the mass grave apparently found in …
Ten years after the presentation of the Truth Commission's Report, I believe this is the moment to propose a different look at the testimonies — a perspective from which it …
This effort focuses on a fundamental aspect: gathering the voices of indigenous women from the central jungle who were victims of violence between 1980 and 2000. It should be noted …
It is the outcry of the women sterilized in the Asháninka native community, decimated by "family planning."
In this working document, the Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (IDEHPUCP) proposes a discussion on the relevance of the concept of postwar …
This report is a broad overview of the issue of displacement in Peru, based on the registry of NGOs from the Regional Roundtables that accompany displaced populations in the departments …
This text is situated within the singularly dramatic framework of political violence, which having erupted in the 1980s extended into the early 1990s. Specifically, it grows from the work experience …
The native population, primarily the Ashaninka people of the central jungle, has been directly affected by the political violence unleashed in Peru. The Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) and Shining …