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.
Approximately 150 MRTA subversives attacked the Pichanaki police post on May 18, 1992. The attack resulted in 1 sinchi killed and 3 wounded. This action was part of MRTA's strategy to carry out major operations in the central jungle, after having unsuccessfully attempted to take Pichanaki in December 1991 and …
Between April and May 1992, the MRTA carried out a series of military actions in the department of San Martin. These actions included attacks on the towns of Tarapoto, Picota, Tabalosos and San Miguel del Río Mayo. In addition, the MRTA attacked the police posts of San Jose de Sisa …
On March 8, 1992, the PCP-SL attacked the police post of Angasmarca in the province of Santiago de Chuco. The attack resulted in the death of five policemen. This event was part of the Shining Path's strategy of attacking rural police posts with few personnel and limited weapons. Angasmarca had …
Approximately 150 subversives attacked the Pichanaki police post in March 1992. The attack resulted in 1 police officer dead and 3 wounded Sinchis. This attack took place in a context of maximum violence in the region during 1992, when dynamite attacks, blackouts, sabotage, assassinations, disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions and …
On January 13, 1992, a column of eleven hikers attacked three non-commissioned officers of the General Police who were doing surveillance near the central market of VES. One policeman was killed in the attack, and the event instilled a great deal of fear in the population. This attack was part …
On January 11, 1992, the PCP-SL attacked the police post of Pucará in the province of Lampa. This attack was part of a continuation of violent actions by the PCP-SL in the department of Puno during the most intense period of the internal armed conflict. The event took place in …
In 1992 there was an attack against a police detachment in the provinces of Acobamba or Angaraes, in the department of Huancavelica. The attack resulted in the death of 4 policemen. This event occurred in the context of the end of violence in the area, shortly before the capture of …
In 1992, Shining Path attacked a police station in the province of Huancavelica, resulting in the death of 4 policemen. This attack took place in a context where the communities of Julcamarca, with the support of the army and the ronderos of Lircay, were consolidating the Rondas Campesinas. The attack …
On May 4, 1991, a Shining Path detachment assaulted the Ollantaytambo police post. During the attack, three policemen guarding the facility were killed. This assault was part of a series of PCP-SL attacks against police posts and authorities in the Cuzco region during that period. The attack took place in …
On April 3, 1991, the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) attacked the Ollantaytambo police post in the province of Urubamba, department of Cuzco. This attack marked the emergence of the MRTA in the department of Cuzco. As a result of the attack, three policemen were killed. This event took place …
In January 1991, members of the PCP-SL attacked for almost four hours the police post of Querobamba, which was completely demolished. This attack was organized by three groups: the first went directly to the police post where there were only four members, the second prevented the villagers from fleeing the …
On June 25, 1990, on a stretch of the Huachocolpa-Caudalosa highway, a subversive detachment of the PCP-SL attacked a police convoy. One police officer and five subordinates were killed in the attack. This was the last major military action carried out by PCP-SL detachments in the province of Huancavelica, although …
On April 27, 1990, approximately sixty MRTA members attacked the police post in the district of Chupaca, located 12 kilometers away. This was the last major MRTA action in the Mantaro Valley. The attack lasted two hours, after which the attackers withdrew, suffering two casualties. This action took place a …
On April 19, 1990, members of the PCP-SL attacked the Azángaro police post. This attack took place in a context of intensified political violence during the electoral period, specifically between the first and second round of the presidential elections. The event was part of the Second Campaign of the V …
On November 7, 1989, the La Oroya police post was attacked by the Shining Path PCP. As a result of the attack, three policemen were wounded. This attack was part of a series of sabotage and armed propaganda actions that multiplied during the second half of 1989 in the central …
On June 16, 1989, a group of subversives of the PCP-SL attacked the police post in the district of Huaripampa, in the province of Jauja. Two policemen and Teodoro Santos Mejia, who was the local parish priest, were killed during the scuffle. This attack was part of the escalation of …
On June 16, 1989, the Shining Path PCP attacked the Huaripampa police post in the province of Junin. During the attack, two policemen and the local parish priest were killed. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that multiplied during the second half of 1989 in the …
On May 1, 1989, a detachment of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) attacked the Tablada de Lurin police post. This attack took place in a context of intensified political violence in the country, during the government of Alan Garcia Perez. The attack was part of the armed actions that …
On March 27, 1989, the PCP-SL carried out an attack on the Uchiza police post that resulted in its complete destruction. The attack was supported by the people of Uchiza in combination with drug traffickers in the area. As a result of the attack, 10 policemen were killed. This event …
In March 1989, around 30 armed MRTA men attacked the Pichanaki police post in Chanchamayo province. This attack was part of the MRTA's operations in the central jungle during its period of expansion in the area. A few days after this attack, the subversives marched into the Junin highlands to …
In July 1988, the MRTA subversive contingent attacked and destroyed the police post in the district of Pozuzo, in the province of Oxapampa. During the confrontation, four policemen were killed. This attack was part of a series of MRTA actions in the area during the last months of 1988, when …
On May 5, 1988, the Shining Path PCP carried out a ferocious attack on the police post of Crucero, in the province of Sandia, department of Puno. This attack came after almost a year of calm in the area. During the raid, the subversives killed six members of the security …
On May 5, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the SAIS Picotani located in Crucero, Sandia province. During the attack, the Shining Path guerrillas destroyed the facilities of the associative enterprise. The attack resulted in the murder of six police officers and the local justice of the peace. Subsequently, teacher and …
In March 1989, around 30 armed MRTA men attacked the Pichanaki police post in Chanchamayo province. This attack was part of the MRTA's operations in the central jungle during its period of expansion in the area. A few days after this attack, the subversives marched into the Junin highlands to …
On February 24, 1988, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the 10th Police Command located in the city of Huancavelica. This attack was part of a series of large-scale military actions carried out by the PCP-SL during 1988, when the subversive organization had managed to recompose and reorganize its forces, …
On November 7, 1987, the MRTA carried out an attack on the Rioja police post as part of the 'Tupac Amaru Vive' Military Campaign. This attack took place on the same day as the takeover of San José de Sisa, where the MRTA troops arrived without firing a single shot. …
On November 6, 1987, the MRTA carried out its first incursion in the city of Juanjui with an operation executed by sixty members of the organization. The action consisted of the seizure of the three police posts in the city, the airport and the looting of a bank. The operation …
The seizure of Juanjuí began on Friday, November 6, 1987 at 2:30 a.m. when a group of emerretistas captured the 'Love of the Mountain' truck to transport the Tupacamarista Army to Juanjuí without being discovered. Between 70 and 100 MRTA subversives took the town at 5:45 a.m., almost without resistance, …
On October 7, 1987, members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) attacked the Concepcion police post in the province of Huancayo. During the attack, Ensign Henry Rojas Mori was killed. This attack took place in the context of a series of MRTA armed actions in different areas of the …
On September 12, 1987, members of the PCP-SL raided the district of Chuquibambilla, Apurimac province. During the attack, the subversives attacked multiple targets in the district, including the police post, the jail, the Municipality and the Municipal Library. In the assault on the police post, they killed three policemen and …
On September 10, 1987, a police station located in the Chilca District Council, in the heart of the city of Huancayo, was attacked with high explosives by militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The attack caused extensive damage to the police facilities. This attack took place in the context of a …
In August 1987, the Civil Guard Headquarters located in the very center of the city of Cuzco suffered a subversive attack perpetrated by the Shining Path PCP. This attack represented a significant escalation in urban violence in the Cuzco region, demonstrating the subversive group's ability to strike targets in the …
On June 8, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Paucartambo police post in the province of the same name in the department of Cuzco. This attack was part of a series of PCP-SL raids against various police posts in the upper provinces of Cuzco during June 1987. The attack took …
On May 31, 1987, a detachment of approximately 200 PCP-Sendero Luminoso subversives attacked the Uchiza police post. The attack resulted in the death of six policemen. This was the second attempt to take the town of Uchiza, after a first failed attack in August 1986 when the population confronted the …
On May 25, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Pisac police post in the province of Cuzco. During the attack, Civil Guard Jaime Quispe was killed. This attack took place in the context of a series of PCP-SL offensives against various police posts in the high provinces of Cuzco during …
On May 7, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Civil Guard police post in Urubamba, province of the department of Cuzco. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that the PCP-SL carried out against police posts in the provinces of Cuzco during the period of expanding violence …
At the end of May 1987, the PCP-SL attacked the Uchiza police post as part of its strategy of territorial control in the Upper Huallaga. This was the first significant attack on Uchiza, which preceded the better known and devastating second attack on March 17, 1989. The attack occurred in …
In May 1987, the police post of Pisac, located in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, was attacked by the Shining Path PCP. One policeman died as a result of the attack. This attack was part of a series of subversive actions in the Cusco region during 1987, which also included …
On February 5, 1987, a detachment of the PCP-SL attacked the police posts of Checca and Quehua in the department of Cuzco. During the confrontation with the police, the PCP-SL lost two of its members: Sonia Lino Ojeda and Janeth Vizcarra. This attack was part of a series of PCP-SL …
On January 30, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked several police posts and communities in the province of Canas, department of Cuzco. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that the subversive group carried out in the high provinces of the department during the period of expanding violence. …
On April 19, 1985, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an assault against the Civil Guard detachment in Urcos, Quispicanchi province. This attack was part of the first phase of real violence in the Cuzco region, which began with the harassment and attack on rural and urban police posts. The assault …
In April 1985 there was an attack on the Urcos police post, located in the department of Cusco. This attack was part of a series of violent actions by the Shining Path PCP in the Cusco region during that period. The attack on Urcos occurred in the context of an …
In June 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Huamanguilla police post. This attack took place in a context of intensifying violence in the province of Huanta, where subversive forces, law enforcement and peasant patrols were engaged in constant confrontations. The attack was part of the Shining Path's strategy to weaken …
In 1984, the PCP-SL took the town of Aucayacu twice, attacking the police post with a death toll of twenty. These actions were part of the PCP-SL's territorial control strategy in the Huallaga basin. Between one assault and another, the mayor of Tingo Maria, Tito Jaime Fernandez, was assassinated on …
On October 15, 1983, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a harassment attack against the Churcampa police post. This attack took place in the context of a series of subversive actions aimed at destroying the existing system of authorities and harassing police posts in the region. The action was …
On August 22, 1982, the third and most devastating attack against the Vilcashuamán police post took place. A group of armed hikers bombed the police post, resulting in the death of seven policemen and several wounded. This was the worst attack on the Vilcashuamán police post since the attacks on …
On August 18, 1982, members of the PCP-SL attacked the Civil Guard posts of Orurillo and Umachiri, in the province of Melgar, Puno. After five hours of confrontations, seven policemen were killed on August 22. After the attack, the Minister of Interior, General FAP (r) Jose Gagliardi Schiaffino, and the …
On August 22, 1982, the PCP-SL attacked the Vilcashuaman police post, killing four policemen. This attack represented the high point of the panorama of abandonment of police posts in the region. The event was part of the PCP-SL's successful strategy between 1980 and 1982 that combined threats, assassinations, sabotage actions …
On August 22, 1982, a group of armed hikers bombed the Vilcashuamán police post, resulting in the death of seven policemen and several wounded. This was the worst attack on the Vilcashuamán police post since the attacks of March 31 and July 25 of the same year. The morning after …
The Vilcashuamán police post was attacked and 7 policemen were killed after 5 hours of combat.
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