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.
During September 2002, the TRC collected multiple testimonies in the department of Huanuco on various acts of violence that occurred during the internal armed conflict. The testimonies include cases of forced disappearances, murders and sexual violence perpetrated mainly by State agents. Among the documented cases is the testimony of the …
In 1997, the Shining Path PCP carried out a new attack on the town of Aucayacu, in the department of San Martin. This attack was part of the subversive actions that continued in the Huallaga region after 1992, although with less intensity than in previous years. During the confrontation, more …
In August 1996, ninety subversives of the Shining Path PCP took the town of Aucayacu and attacked the police post. This attack was part of a series of PCP-SL actions in the region that demonstrated their ability to mobilize large contingents, despite the general decline in subversive activity following the …
The delegation of the Human Rights Commission of the Democratic Constituent Congress (CCD) traveled to Tingo Maria on April 23, 1994 to investigate allegations of human rights violations during Operation Aries. For three days (April 23, 24 and 25) the Commission received testimonies from affected persons in Tingo Maria, Aucayacu …
MRTA had a strong presence in Aucayacu between 1986 and 1989, operating in the urban area during this period. However, in 1992 the MRTA was totally eliminated from Aucayacu. This event marked the end of the MRTA presence in this locality of Alto Huallaga, a strategic zone because of its …
A witness reported to the CVR that around 1992 in the city of Aucayacu, department of Huánuco, there were massacres, abuses and rapes by the army. These events were part of the pattern of sexual violence and abuses against the civilian population that characterized the actions of the armed forces …
On November 27, 1991, Cayo Silvestre Carhuancho was detained in Nuevo Copal by military personnel from the Aucayacu base. When family members arrived to ask for him they were denied detention and were threatened with death, finally they were 'suggested' to look in the body dumps near the Huallaga. Seven …
On August 9, 1991, members of the counter-subversive base of Aucayacu detained Sara Luz Mozombite Quiñonez in Sangapilla. They accused her of being a 'tuca' and took her to the base. When family members went to the base, Lieutenant Gringo and Captain Lobo denied that she was there. A week …
On June 19, 1991, in Aucayacu, Army troops arrested Leovigildo Decio Hernández Celis at his home at 2 a.m. and took him to the military base. His body was found by family members, burned and without intestines, on the banks of a nearby river.
In June 1991, there was an armed confrontation between Peruvian Army troops and members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in Aucayacu, Leoncio Prado province, Huanuco department. The confrontation resulted in the death of sixty-five members of the PCP-SL who were killed by the military forces. This event occurred during the so-called …
On November 24, 1990, Army troops entered the town of Primavera, near Aucayacu, which had been identified as a subversive base. The raid turned into a massacre in which 24 people were killed, some of them mutilated, with their ears, tongues and testicles cut off.
On April 8, 1990, military personnel detained a person in Aucayacu, department of Huánuco, who subsequently disappeared. The wife of the disappeared person recounts the anguish and trauma experienced after the arrest of her relative. Her testimony reflects the state of shock and uncertainty she experienced: "So what was I …
On February 5, 1990, Julio Alvarado Bardales, a coca farmer, was arrested by Army troops at a party. He was accused of being a terrorist because members of the PCP-SL sometimes came to his house. Days later he was taken to his father's house, who saw that his ears had …
Once the coca growers' union was organized, they went on strike in Aucayacu. The strike lasted between twenty-four and forty-eight hours. In the middle of the strike, a UMOPAR patrol arrived from Tingo Maria to confront a group of strikers who had gathered at the Aucayacu intersection with the Marginal …
On April 24, 1986, members of the police forces were assassinated in Aucayacu. This event is part of a series of violent attacks that occurred during that period in the context of the Peruvian internal armed conflict. The attack is recorded in the 1986 summary of the CVR report as …
The MRTA had a strong presence in Aucayacu between 1986 and 1989. In the mid-1980s, small MRTA groups operated and even carried out attacks in the urban area of Tocache, but their weight was minimal compared to that of the PCP-SL. MRTA's presence in Aucayacu was significant during this period, …
During 1985, in the rural area of Alto Huallaga, the Shining Path PCP executed ten homosexuals and prostitutes in Aucayacu. This action was part of a PCP-SL strategy to gain prestige among coca farmers by killing people considered criminals or undesirables. The report mentions that these actions, together with ambushes …
On July 4, 1984, the second attack by the PCP-SL against the Civil Guard post in Aucayacu took place. This attack occurred five months after the first attack on January 31, 1984. A UMOPAR unit arrived several hours after the attack, when the hikers had already withdrawn, and retaliated against …
The PCP-SL attacked the new Civil Guard post in the town's main market, resulting in the death of several policemen. When a UMOPAR patrol was on its way from Tingo Maria to provide support, it was ambushed at the Pacae bridge, killing two policemen. When they arrived in Aucayacu, they …
On January 31, 1984, the first large-scale attack by the PCP-SL against the town of Aucayacu took place. The hikers simultaneously attacked the Banco de la Nacion and the first post of the Civil Guard, both located on Jiron Tupac Amaru. During the attack, they released people who were detained …
The PCP-SL attacked the Banco de la Nacion and Civil Guard post in Aucayacu, where six to seven policemen were killed. This was the first of two attacks in 1984 against police installations in the city.
In 1984, the PCP-SL took the town of Aucayacu twice, attacking the police post with a death toll of twenty. These attacks were part of the Shining Path expansion in the Huallaga basin, where violent actions had begun in 1983.
In 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated a group of workers of the Control and Reduction of Coca Cultivation in Alto Huallaga (CORAH) project and destroyed the Aucayacu police post. This action was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to achieve political hegemony in the Alto Huallaga area. The attack followed a …
In early 1984, a letter signed by the leftist group Pucallacta demanded the resignation of all municipal authorities in Aucayacu. This event was part of a series of intimidating actions by the PCP-SL against local authorities in the area. The letter was followed by an attack (arson) against the house …
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 …
In 1983, there was an assassination attempt against the governor of Aucayacu at the door of his house. This attack was part of a series of selective actions by the PCP-SL against local authorities in the area. The attack was part of the period of consolidation of Shining Path control …
At the end of 1982, the PCP-SL carried out a non-fatal attack against former mayor Augusto Tovar Tovar in Aucayacu. This attack was part of a series of selective actions against local authorities that the PCP-SL carried out in the Alto Huallaga area during that period. The attack against Tovar …
In 1981 there was a coca growers' strike in Aucayacu that marked the first public presence of the PCP-SL in the area. Inhabitants of Aucayacu and municipal authorities of that time identified this strike as the event in which a hidden presence of the PCP-SL was voiced and felt for …
The presence of the PCP-SL in Alto Huallaga did not begin to be felt until 1980-81, approximately six years after the beginning of the drug boom in the area. The Shining Path cadres would have initiated their party's political work in the countryside taking as their cause the defense of …
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