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.
A column of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso executed five peasant ronderos in the province of Chumbivilcas. This attack was part of the Shining Path's strategy to confront the nascent peasant patrols that were being promoted by the military bases in the highland provinces. The PCP-SL considered the community patrols as "mesnadas" …
In January 1990, community members from the Quero annex, along with representatives from Santa Rosa de Huarmitá, San Roque de Huarmitá, Chaquicocha and Usibamba met on January 8, 1990 to agree to form a Self-Defense Committee and request support from the Army. This meeting took place in a context of …
Following an inter-communal agreement adopted two weeks earlier, the inhabitants of Uchuraccay and other neighboring communities such as Huaychao, Cunya, Paria and Carhuahurán went to Iquicha to capture members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. During this expedition, they detained 13 people, among them the lieutenant governor, accusing them of being collaborators …
Following an inter-communal agreement adopted two weeks earlier, the inhabitants of Uchuraccay, as well as those of other neighboring communities such as Huaychao, Cunya, Paria and Carhuahurán went to Iquicha to capture members of the PCP-SL. During this expedition they detained 13 people, among them the lieutenant governor, accusing them …
On January 23, 1983, General Roberto Clemente Noel Moral publicly reported on the murders that had occurred in Huaychao two days earlier, on January 21. In his statement, General Noel saluted the 'courage and virility' of the peasants who had killed seven members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This official announcement …
In the midst of an escalation of violence unleashed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, which included the assassination of community president Alejandro Huamán in late 1982, Uchuraccay villagers killed five members of the PCP-SL in mid-January 1983. This event was part of a broader inter-communal rebellion in the Huanta highlands, where …
During the second and third week of January 1983, in various towns in the highlands of Huanta, community members led by their authorities captured and killed 24 militant members of the PCP-SL. This event occurred in the context of an inter-communal rebellion against Shining Path, after the PCP-SL had assassinated …
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