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.
The declarant, who was an authority in the area, recounts his detention and experience of torture in Tingo María, Huánuco. The testimony is part of the documented cases of mistreatment and torture suffered by local authorities during the internal armed conflict. She also recounts the murder of her husband in …
Interview conducted with a former authority of the Venenillo hamlet in the province of Leoncio Prado, Huánuco, as part of the collection of testimonies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The interview addresses the impact of the internal armed conflict on local authority structures and the destructuring of the community. …
Interview conducted with an authority of the Primavera hamlet in the province of Leoncio Prado, Huánuco, in May 2002. The authority interviewed provided testimony about the impact of the internal armed conflict on her community. The testimony is part of the documentation compiled by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to …
Leonor Zamora Concha, former mayor of Huamanga and professor of Social Service at the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University (UNSCH), was murdered on December 21, 1991 at the door of an educational center. This crime took place in the context of a wave of violence against people linked to …
On June 25, 1991, Jose Ramirez Cahuana, provincial mayor of La Union in the department of Arequipa, was assassinated. This crime occurred during the so-called "red month of the PCP-SL", a period of intense violent activity that lasted from May 17 to June 19, 1991. The assassination was part of …
In November 1989, Municipal Agent Antonio Bruno Quinto was murdered in the public square of the annex of Chaquicocha, district of San José de Quero. This murder occurred in the context of a wave of violence perpetrated by the PCP-SL against local authorities in the Alto Cunas area. In the …
The provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Asparrent, was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP in September 1989. This crime was one of the most important in the city of Huamanga during the period of intense urban violence. The assassination occurred in a context of growing PCP-SL activity in the city, …
The mayor of Ocros was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP shortly after the murder of the provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Asparrent, in September 1989. This crime was part of a systematic strategy of the PCP-SL to eliminate local authorities in the Ayacucho region. The assassination took place in …
Zenón Huarsaya, local leader, founder of the Peasant Federation and newly elected mayor of San Juan de Salinas, was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP. He was dragged from his home to the town square where the PCP-SL had gathered the population. This assassination occurred in the context of conflicts …
In February 1987, the mayor of the district of Naranjillo, Eugenio Camasca, a militant of the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP), was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP. This assassination occurred in the context of the control that the PCP-SL was establishing in the area of Naranjillo, near Tingo Maria, where …
On July 27, 1986, Lieutenant Governor Hermógenes Huellca was assassinated in the department of Cuzco. This event occurred during the period of expanding violence in the southern Andes (1984-1988), when the PCP-Sendero Luminoso intensified its actions against local authorities and state representatives. Huellca's assassination was part of a systematic strategy …
On May 19, 1985, Marcelino Pachari Roselló, provincial mayor of Azángaro belonging to Izquierda Unida (IU), was assassinated. This crime took place in a context of intense political violence in Peru, where local authorities and mayors were frequent targets of terrorist attacks. The assassination occurred just two months after the …
The PCP-SL assassinated the mayor of Pumahuasi, an APRA militant. This assassination continued the pattern of elimination of municipal authorities in the Huallaga area during 1984.
The mayor of Tingo Maria, Tito Jaime Fernandez, was assassinated on April 19, 1984 by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination occurred between two assaults on the town of Aucayacu, where the PCP-SL had attacked the police post with a death toll of twenty. The assassination of the mayor was part …
On October 18, 1982, hooded PCP-SL militants carrying firearms broke into the house of Teofilo Rojas, lieutenant governor of Chinche Tingo. This murder occurred in the context of meetings of villagers encouraged by the authorities to define a position against the subversive incursions. The assassination of Teofilo Rojas provoked the …
Juan Vilca Cutipa, lieutenant governor of Tiramaza in the province of Azángaro, was assassinated on September 9, 1982. This assassination occurred in the context of a series of attacks perpetrated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Puno region. On the same day of Vilca Cutipa's assassination, attacks were also registered …
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