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.
On November 4, the PCP-SL kidnaps and murders Cleto Muñoz, councilman of the municipality of Santa Lucía, in the province of Lampa (Puno). This murder is part of the PCP-SL strategy of attacking local authorities in rural areas.
In June 1994, Manuel Barrientos García, mayor of the Sacsamarca district, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The perpetrators dressed as military personnel to commit the crime. This assassination occurred almost as an isolated episode, being one of the last events of violence in the area, two years after the …
On July 17, 1991, the provincial mayor of San Antonio de Putina, Prudencio Sulca Huayta, was assassinated in the department of Puno. This crime took place in the context of an intensification of selective attacks by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, which followed its peculiar symbolic pattern of attacking local authorities and …
On July 17, 1991, the provincial mayor of San Antonio de Putina was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of violent actions perpetrated by PCP-SL urban annihilation commandos in Puno during 1991. The attack against this municipal authority took place in a context of …
The elected mayor of Izquierda Unida of the district of Huachocolpa was assassinated by members of the PCP-SL. This assassination was part of the Shining Path policy of eliminating elected local authorities, particularly those linked to legal leftist parties that they considered 'revisionist'.
On October 10, 1989, Felipe Vergara Avila, provincial mayor of Cajatambo in the department of Lima, was assassinated. This crime took place in the context of a municipal election campaign marred by the assassinations of mayors and mayoral candidates in different parts of the country. The assassination was part of …
Arminda Gutierres Trelles, provincial aprista mayor of Churcampa in the department of Huancavelica, was assassinated on October 9, 1989. This assassination occurred in the context of a municipal election campaign marred by the murders of mayors and mayoral candidates in different parts of the country. The crime was part of …
Fermín Darío Azparrent Taipe, mayor of the Provincial Council of Huamanga for Izquierda Unida, was murdered in his hardware store in the afternoon. He had been the victim of multiple threats from both the PCP-SL and the paramilitary group 'Rodrigo Franco'. He was attacked by two men who shot him, …
The provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Azparrent Taipe, was fatally shot by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in September 1989. This assassination took place in a context of intensifying internal armed conflict between 1988 and 1991, when both intelligence agents and PCP-SL groups carried out selective assassinations in the city. The attack …
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, …
On Friday, May 19, 1989, a group of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Marcelino Pachari Roselló, provincial mayor of Azángaro. The mayor was inspecting the reconstruction of the bridge that had been blown up days before by a detachment of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of …
On January 23, 1989, the Aprista provincial mayor of Satipo, Fidel Juarez Torres, was assassinated. This crime took place in a context of intensifying political violence in the department of Junín during 1989. The assassination was part of a systematic campaign against elected authorities, with 1989 being the year with …
On November 11, 1988, César Valentín Palomino, provincial mayor of Huancayo, was assassinated. This crime took place in a context of intensifying political violence in the department of Junin, where both the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA were active. The assassination of democratically elected authorities was a recurrent tactic of …
On June 30, 1988, two subversives of the PCP Shining Path assassinated the provincial mayor of Puno, Luis Dueñas Peralta. This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's strategy of eliminating local authorities in the Puno region during the period of expanding subversive violence. The attack occurred in a context where …
On June 26, 1988, the mayor of San Juan de Salinas, Jaime Centeno Jove, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This crime occurred in the context of a systematic campaign of selective assassinations against local authorities in the department of Puno. San Juan de Salinas was a district in the …
Zenobio Huarsaya Soncco, district mayor of Izquierda Unida (IU) of San Juan de Salinas in the province of Azángaro, Puno, was murdered in the Plaza de Armas of his town. The crime was perpetrated by a group of members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso made up of eight men and three …
Luis Llanos de la Mata, mayor of the district of San Rafael in the province of Ambo, department of Huanuco, was assassinated in February 1987. The event occurred in a context of intensifying political violence in Peru, where local authorities were frequent targets of subversive groups. This assassination is part …
On August 8, 1984, a contingent of the PCP-SL entered the town of Santa Rosa de Astobamba, in the district of Yanahuanca. During this incursion, the Shining Path militants assassinated Antonio Artica Sosa, who was a municipal agent. This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to destroy the existing …
Saúl Muñoz Menacho, mayor of Izquierda Unida (IU) of Huancayo, was assassinated on July 16, 1984. This assassination was part of a systematic campaign by the Shining Path PCP against the municipal space and political parties in the central region of the country. The attack against municipal authorities was part …
On April 17, 1984, Tito Jaime, who was a coca growers' leader and provincial mayor of Leoncio Prado in the department of Huanuco, was assassinated. The event occurred in a context of intense political violence in the country, during the first government of Fernando Belaunde Terry. This assassination took place …
On November 8, 1983, Victor Arias Vicuña, provincial mayor of Pasco belonging to the Popular Action (AP) party, was assassinated. This crime took place in the context of an escalation of political violence affecting local authorities in various regions of the country. The murder occurred just five days before the …
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