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.
Two women testified at CVR's Central Regional Headquarters in December 2002, narrating the death of their parents in an attack in Huancayo. The testimony is part of the documentation of cases of violence during the internal armed conflict. The women recounted the memory problems and other psychological symptoms they experienced …
Two women testified before the TRC in November 2002 narrating the death of their parents in an attack in Huancayo. The testimony was recorded at the Central Regional Headquarters. The declarants described memory problems as a symptom of a major ailment derived from the loss of their parents. This case …
An attack occurred in Pacaycasa, province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho, which resulted in the death of the husband of a woman who gave testimony to the TRC. The testimony was recorded in October 2002 in Sicuani. The woman narrated the death of her husband as a consequence of this …
Testimony collected in Sicuani in October 2002 from a woman who narrates the death of her husband in an attack in Pacaycasa, Huanta, Ayacucho. The testimony is part of the CVR's documentation on the emotional and psychological impacts of political violence on victims and their families. This case illustrates the …
Leonor La Rosa, a former agent of the Army Intelligence Service (SIE), provided classified information to the newspaper La República about the operation plan called 'Bermuda', revealed in notes published on December 9, 10 and 14, 1996. This contributed to aborting the SIE's ongoing plan to make an attempt on …
On October 17, 1996, there was a dynamite attack against the Global Televisión (channel 13) branch in Puno. According to a report by Mónica Vecco in La Clave, César Hildebrandt's program, the attack was perpetrated by SIN non-commissioned officers who confessed before a judge in Puno. One of the attackers, …
On October 17, 1996, intelligence agents, presumably from the Colina Group, attacked the Red Global affiliate in Puno and Radio Samoa. This attack took place in a context of pacification of the internal armed conflict, when violent actions had significantly decreased in the region. The attack was directed against local …
The PCP-SL attacked the premises of the Superior Court of Apurimac in the city of Abancay. This attack against an institution of the Judicial Power is evidence of the PCP-SL's strategy of attacking symbols of the State.
Alleged subversives attacked Bravo Quispe, mayor of the district of Yanacancha in Pasco. As a result of the attack, the mayor's driver and other people not identified in the report died. This attack took place in the context of the final period of the cycle of violence in the central …
On September 18, 1994, the PCP-SL carried out an attack that left the Quiruvilca police post in the province of Santiago de Chuco in rubble. The objective of the attack was to try to free five of their comrades who were being held at the post. This attack took place …
The MRTA attacks the Hiraoka family home with explosives. That same night they set off a car bomb in front of the Hiraoka store on Petit Thouars Avenue, in the Lima district of Lince. These attacks were reprisals for the release of businessman Raul Hiraoka.
On July 18, 1993, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a bomb attack that completely destroyed the Yamobamba hydroelectric plant, which supplied electricity to the city of Huamachuco. As a result of the attack, the entire city was without electricity for more than 8 months. This attack took place in the …
A PCP-SL annihilation commando unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Michel Azcueta Gorotiza, who was wounded. Azcueta was a well-known leftist political leader and mayor of Villa El Salvador.
Two dynamite and ampho explosions destroyed the municipality and part of the Cristo Rey parish in Juliaca. This simultaneous attack against civil and religious institutions shows the Shining Path's strategy of attacking symbols of the State and the Church. The explosions caused significant material damage.
In 1993, the PCP-SL celebrated its 10 years of armed struggle in the hamlets near Araqueda, in the province of Cajabamba. The celebration consisted of detonating bombs and shooting bullets in the area. This event took place during the period of greatest intensity of violence in the region, when the …
In September 1992, the Shining Path PCP detonated a bomb that destroyed one of the food collection centers of the soup kitchens of FEPOMUVES (Popular Federation of Women of Villa El Salvador), presided over by María Elena Moyano. This attack was part of an escalation of violence by the PCP-SL …
On July 23, 1992, the ninth armed strike called by the PCP-SL took place. The actions began on July 16 with the car bomb that exploded in Tarata de Miraflores and harassment in different police stations, maintaining a much higher intensity than in February until the very day of the …
The "armed strike" of the Shining Path in Lima on July 22 and 23 left a tragic toll of 8 dead, 38 wounded, 5 car bombs, 13 urban transport vehicles set on fire and 23 explosive devices. This armed strike was successful and consolidated the image of "Shining Path" in …
The explosion of a car bomb in the center of Miraflores, Tarata street, shocked the country. During the week, there were other attacks in different areas of Lima, including a call for an armed strike in the capital. All this would mean a pre-insurrectional rehearsal in Lima, according to the …
The horrendous attack in Tarata Street, Miraflores, perpetrated by Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) took place. Gustavo Gutiérrez wrote about the horror that turns taciturn and the falsehood that wears out the language as an effect and cause of the cervical fear and radical distrust that advances unstoppable in the country. …
Car bomb attack perpetrated on Tarata Street in the Miraflores district of Lima. This attack was part of the escalation of violence by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso during 1992, a year in which the subversive organization intensified its terrorist actions in the capital. The attack occurred a little more than a …
On July 16, 1992, a car bomb exploded on Tarata Street in the Miraflores district of Lima. This attack occurred in a context of intensifying violence in the capital, where the subversive groups Sendero Luminoso and MRTA increased their actions by carrying out continuous attacks against public and private entities. …
The Tarata attack occurred on July 16, 1992 in Lima. According to the CVR report, this attack was part of a wave of Shining Path violence that culminated after the police intervention in the Canto Grande prison between June 6 and 9, 1992, which resulted in the assassination of prominent …
On July 16, 1992, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso detonated a car bomb on Tarata Street, in the heart of the residential district of Miraflores in Lima. This action was part of the Shining Path's strategy of "sounding board" and "strategic balance" that sought to demonstrate their ability to strike even in …
On July 16, 1992, the Shining Path PCP detonated a car bomb on Tarata Street, causing fire, destruction and death of people who were peacefully in the apparent safety of their homes. This was the most visible and dramatic event of the period of high violence in Lima. The attack …
The explosion of a car bomb in the center of Miraflores, on Tarata Street, left 20 dead and 132 wounded. The impact of the attack in the media spread panic and a feeling of insecurity among the public. The same day a series of attacks took place in other sectors …
Terrorist car bomb attack on Tarata Street, the most serious car bomb attack carried out by Shining Path in Lima. Through these attacks, the Shining Path accelerated its offensive on the capital while calculating the possibility of a U.S. intervention that would unleash a war of national liberation in the …
At approximately 11:30 p.m., the INCAFOR S.A. camp, located in San Ignacio, was the victim of an explosive attack that killed two workers (Enrique Reyna Cruz and Narciso Agurto Guevara), injured several people and caused serious material damage. The following day, police officers arbitrarily detained ten residents of San Ignacio, …
On June 5, 1992, a PCP-Sendero Luminoso truck bomb exploded in front of the Channel 2 facilities in Lima. The explosion completely destroyed the television channel's facilities and caused the death of three channel workers. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's escalation of violence in Lima during the period …
Shining Path caused a "truck bomb" to explode in front of Canal 2, destroying its facilities and killing three people. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's terror offensive against the city of Lima.
A truck bomb explodes in front of Canal 2, destroying its facilities and killing three canal workers. This attack is part of the campaign of urban violence carried out by subversive groups in Lima during this period.
The PCP-SL raided San Pedro, Canchis province, and assassinated the mayor, the governor, the president of the potable water company and a leader, burning the municipality and dynamiting two buses belonging to the Ormeño and Cruz del Sur companies. This multiple attack is evidence of the PCP-SL's violence against authorities …
1st PNP sub officer Ana Lira Chupingahua was attacked by members of Sendero Luminoso when she was on her way to the Comptroller General of the Republic. At 7:40 a.m., while trying to board public transportation, she was shot five times in the back, chest, stomach and head. A woman …
On February 14, 1992, a package of 500 grams of dynamite was placed at the door of the house of the former mayor of the district of Villa El Salvador, Michel Azcueta. This attack occurred on the same day that the PCP-SL had decreed an armed strike in Lima, and …
On February 14, 1992, the Shining Path PCP called an armed strike in Lima during which 25 attacks were carried out. Among these attacks was the blowing up of a truck. During these armed strikes, the PCP-SL assassinated cab drivers to sow terror in that sector of the transport sector. …
On February 14, 1992, the PCP-SL called for an armed strike in Metropolitan Lima, during which 25 attacks were carried out in the city. The most spectacular act of that day was the blowing up of a police patrol truck in the district of Comas. This attack occurred in a …
On February 14, 1992, the seventh armed strike called by the PCP-SL took place. This strike was preceded by a week of violent actions that began on February 7, including the explosion of a bomb at SUNAT, a car bomb at the U.S. Embassy, and the brutal assassination of neighborhood …
A powerful bus-bomb was launched against the facade of the Villa El Salvador municipality, destroying part of it, the police station, the Popular Communication Center and dozens of neighboring houses. The attack occurred in the context of the PCP-SL's escalation of violence in the district, after the assassination of María …
In January 1992, in response to the military and police presence in the area, Shining Path members threw an explosive at a house that the police were going to use to distribute food to the population in Ventanilla. They also destroyed a canvas water reservoir in a young town in …
An attack was made in Chulucanas against the Centro Betania, a sewing workshop in Villa Nazareth, belonging to the diocese. This attack against a social work of the Church is part of the Shining Path's strategy of destroying development and social assistance projects promoted by religious institutions.
In December 1991 there was an attack on Emma Hilario, leader of the National Central of Canteens and leader of popular women's organizations. In late December, early in the morning, five hikers entered her house while she was still resting, leaving her brother-in-law and husband wounded. Emma had received previous …
Juan Luis Pérez Coronado, a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the San Cristóbal de Huamanga National University, was the victim of an attack on October 23, 1991. This attack took place in the context of a wave of violence against members of the university community in Huamanga, …
In September 1991, a bomb exploded and destroyed one of the collection centers of FEPOMUVES (Popular Federation of Women of Villa El Salvador), where the organization stored food for distribution to soup kitchens. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to dismantle the most important social organizations and destroy …
During an armed strike called by the Shining Path PCP for August 17 and 18, 1991 in the city of Huamanga, the subversive organization threw explosives at street vendors who did not comply with the strike. As a result of this attack, two people died. This type of action was …
They attacked the bishopric of Chulucanas in Piura, where Bishop McNabb and six priests, who were unharmed, were staying. This attack is part of the Shining Path's escalation of violence against the Catholic Church hierarchy. The objective was to intimidate religious leaders.
A few days after the murder of Irene McCormack, Shining Path supporters dynamited the premises of the Pampa project, linked to the Church, in San Antonio de Putina, Puno. This attack is part of the strategy of destroying development projects promoted by the Catholic Church in rural areas.
In April 1991, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an attack against the premises of the Instituto Libertad y Democracia, directed by Hernando de Soto, who at the time was an advisor to President Alberto Fujimori. This attack was part of a reactivation of subversive actions in the capital during Fujimori's …
Augusto Zúñiga Paz, lawyer for the Human Rights Commission (COMISEDH) and sponsor of the disappeared student Ernesto Castillo Páez, was the victim of a letter bomb attack. The attack caused the amputation of his left forearm. This attack occurred in a context of political violence and was one of the …
Augusto Zúñiga Paz, lawyer for COMISEDH and sponsor of the disappeared student Ernesto Castillo Páez, was the victim of a letter bomb attack. The explosive device amputated his left forearm. This attack took place in the context of the escalation of violence in Metropolitan Lima during the most intense period …
On February 2, 1991, subversives carried out an explosive attack against a Kentucky Fried Chicken store located in the district of Miraflores. The attack left several people wounded. This attack was part of a series of violent actions carried out during February 1991. Among the most important attacks of that …
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