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 July 1988, the MRTA attacked the Pozuzo police post, resulting in the murder of four policemen. This attack was part of MRTA operations in the Palcazu area, where an initially small column of approximately ten well-armed and uniformed militants had set up on the left bank of the Palcazu …
On September 12, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the police post in Chuquibambilla, capital of the province of Grau in Apurimac. This attack was part of an escalation of violence in the department during 1987, a period in which the authorities of the Peruvian Aprista Party became the focus of …
On February 7, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Pomacanchis police post in the province of Acomayo, department of Cuzco. This attack was part of the expansion of violence in the provinces of the department of Cuzco during the period 1984-1988. The province of Acomayo had begun to become an …
On February 5, 1987, approximately 60 elements of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the police post of Checca and Quehue in the province of Canas, Cuzco. During the attack, the subversives stole ammunition, two weapons and set fire to the police station. The civil guards pursued the attackers and an armed …
On July 11, 1986, the Shining Path PCP launched its first attack on a police post in Chucapuente, Aymaraes province. This attack took place in the context of an escalation of violence in the area, where days before, on July 7, the PCP-SL had had its first confrontation with the …
On July 11, 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out its first attack on a police post in the province of Aymaraes, Apurimac. This attack occurred in Chucapuente, a few days after the first confrontation between the PCP-SL and the army in Soccos on July 7 of the same year. This …
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Civil Guard police post in Tinta, province of Canchis, department of Cuzco. This attack was part of the first incursions of the PCP-SL in the high provinces of the department of Cuzco. The attack on Tinta occurred in the context of an escalation of subversive …
On September 27, 1982, there was an assault on the Erapata police post, in the district of Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, department of Cuzco. According to the official police communiqué, 27 armed terrorist elements participated and destroyed the police post. In the attack, the guard Luis Chávez Ordóñez was …
On August 18, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso simultaneously attacked the Civil Guard posts of Orurillo and Umachiri, located in the province of Melgar, department of Puno. This attack was part of the initial actions of the Shining Path in the department of Puno during the period 1980-1983. The attack on …
Attack by the PCP-SL on the Vilcashuamán Line Headquarters. The policemen were harassed by snipers at night and feared that a similar event to the one that occurred at CRAS could happen. The line chief called for help and General GC Jorge Monge Llanos, head of the II Police Region, …
PCP-SL attack on the police post of San José de Secce. This attack was part of the series of attacks on police posts that the PCP-SL carried out after the lifting of the first state of emergency, as part of its strategy of systematic intimidation of police elements and overexcitement …
PCP-SL attack on the Toctos police post. This attack occurred after the lifting of the first state of emergency in Ayacucho on December 12. The PCP-SL began to attack public buildings, police posts, especially the more rural ones, and members of the forces of law and order, in a campaign …
Ferocious attack by the PCP-SL on the Tambo police post on the night of Sunday, October 11, the day of the fair. Twenty armed subversives attacked the post for 15 minutes and lethally wounded guard Jorge Vivanco Vizcarra, a native of Tambo. Two policemen were wounded. Civilians were also killed: …
PCP-SL attack on the Quinua police post. In this attack, Sergeant Ramiro Flores Sulca was killed, becoming the first policeman to die due to PCP-SL actions. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's strategy of attacking rural police posts to gain weapons and means, as well as to train its …
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