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 PCP-SL assassinates the mayor of the district of Pomacanchi, Acomayo, Cuzco, Julián Choque Mamani, and the governor of the locality of Mosoqllacta, Acomayo, Cuzco, Antonio Condori Galloso. These murders are part of Sendero's campaign against local authorities.
In August 1993, the Shining Path PCP assassinated a councilman in Naranjillo, a town very close to Tingo Maria. This murder was part of a series of violent actions carried out by the Shining Path in the region during that period, which also included the murder of five soldiers in …
On November 5, 1992, a group of hikers entered the town of Zarin, in the province of Sanchez Carrion (Huamachuco) at night. During this incursion, the PCP-SL selectively assassinated three local authorities: the Judge, the Governor and the Mayor of the town. This attack was part of the Shining Path's …
In September 1992, in Campo Alegre La Grama, San Marcos province, the PCP-SL assassinated Alipio Arroyo. The victim was the father of the then mayor of Cajamarca. This assassination took place in the context of the Shining Path strategy of selective assassinations against authorities and people linked to local political …
On June 19, 1992, in Challhuamayo, a vehicle belonging to the Huancasancos Municipality was dynamited by the Shining Path PCP. Seventeen people perished in the attack, including civilian and military authorities. Among the victims were the provincial mayor, the sub-prefect, the provincial prosecutor, the justice of the peace, the manager …
On May 17, 1992, the Shining Path PCP raided the annex of Quiparacra, located in the district of Huachon. In the presence of the assembled villagers, the subversive column assassinated seven local authorities who had decided to confront the threats and remain in their posts. This attack was part of …
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 …
On May 13, 1992, a contingent of the PCP-SL entered the town of Chupaca, in the district of Paucartambo. During this incursion, the Shining Path militants slit the throats of villagers and also murdered Alberto Miranda Córdova and Porfirio Fuero Anco. This action was part of a series of violent …
In 1992, Shining Path militants assassinated in Barranca the provincial mayoral candidate Orlando Tapia, who belonged to the Popular Action party. In the same event, Santiago Jau, owner of Radio Fortaleza, was assassinated. These selective assassinations were part of the PCP-SL strategy of attacking political authorities and public figures in …
On August 18, 1991, the head of the National Civil Defense Institute in Juliaca was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of violent actions perpetrated by the subversive organization in Puno during 1991, which included the assassination of authorities and political leaders. The attack …
On August 18, 1991, the head of the National Civil Defense Institute in Juliaca was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of selective executions of authorities and public officials that the PCP-SL carried out during that period in the department of Puno. The attack …
On June 23, 1991, the PCP-SL assassinated Alejandro Magno Gómez, prefect of the district of Villa El Salvador and member of Cambio 90, the ruling party. This assassination marked the first act of an escalation of violence in the framework of the Shining Path strategy of creating a power vacuum …
On June 23, 1991, the PCP-SL assassinated Alejandro Magno Gomez, prefect of the district of Villa El Salvador and member of Cambio 90, the ruling party. This was the first act of a campaign to intimidate and eliminate local authorities in the district. After this assassination, local authorities, particularly Mayor …
On June 23, 1991, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the prefect of the district of Villa El Salvador, Alejandro Magno Gómez. This was the first act of violence recorded in the PCP-SL's more aggressive campaign in Villa El Salvador since 1991, aimed at creating power vacuums by intimidating and eliminating local …
On June 7, 1991, a contingent of subversives from the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the district of La Merced and carried out a massacre against local authorities and villagers. The victims were Prospero Valencia Porras (district mayor) and his wife Rufina Guevara; Oswaldo Porras Valencia and his wife Juana Santos Mancco; …
On May 22, 1991, a Shining Path column raided Huasahuasi, a district in the province of Tarma. In this attack, four people were killed: the nun Irene McCormack, the community president Pedro Pando, the former deputy mayor Alfredo Morales and the leader Agustín Vento. This event was part of the …
On May 22, 1991, the PCP-SL assassinated four people in Huasahuasi, Tarma province. The victims were the nun Irene Mc Cornack, the community president Pedro Pando, the former mayor Alfredo Morales and the leader Agustín Vento. This attack was part of the Shining Path's strategy to eliminate local authorities and …
On May 5, 1991, five hooded men entered the house of Emiliano Inga Quispealaya, former lieutenant governor of Quero. The hooded men tortured Inga Quispealaya and then killed him with five bullets. This murder occurred in the context of a wave of violence perpetrated by Shining Path against local authorities …
On March 14, 1991, around 11:00 p.m., an Army patrol of approximately 20 soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Infantry EP Colins Collantes Guerra, together with members of the Chuschi Police Station, arbitrarily detained three district authorities: Manuel Pacotaype Chaupin (Mayor), Martín Cayllahua Galindo (Secretary of the Council) and Marcelo …
In 1991, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a series of selective assassinations in Santiago de Chuco as part of its strategy of eliminating local authorities and people considered enemies of its political-military project. The victims included the mayor, the sub-prefect, an APRA leader and a local hospital worker. These murders …
In 1991, the mayor of Tocache, Fredy Aliaga, was assassinated along with a coca growers' leader. This assassination occurred in the context of the advance of the Shining Path PCP in the region, where the subversive organization was forming popular committees in different towns in the provinces of Bellavista and …
Congressman Alejandro Victoria Mendoza, a member of the Cambio 90 party, was assassinated in the district of Ate Vitarte, Lima. This crime took place in the context of an escalation of political violence in the Peruvian capital, where both the PCP-SL and the MRTA were intensifying their actions against authorities …
In November 1990, the PCP-SL raided the town of Andajes with the aim of carrying out selective assassinations against local authorities. The victims were Alejandro Torres, Heracleo Segundo, Juan Segundo, Cornejo and Tito, most of them local authorities. This attack exemplifies the aggressiveness of the Shining Path against villages that …
In November 1990, the PCP-SL raided the town of Andajes to carry out selective assassinations against local authorities. The victims were Alejandro Torres, Heracleo Segundo, Juan Segundo, Cornejo and Tito, most of them local authorities. This attack exemplifies the aggressiveness of the Shining Path against villages that rejected their political-military …
On October 4, 1990, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the Deputy Mayor in the district of Sanagorán, province of Sánchez Carrión. This assassination is part of the PCP-SL's systematic strategy of eliminating local authorities in the Huamachuco region. Previously, in 1984, the PCP-SL had already assassinated Mayor Alejandro Polo Baca and …
On September 29, 1990, in Santo Tomás, province of Chumbivilcas, lawyer Marcelino Valencia Álvaro was murdered. This crime occurred in a context of intense violence in the province of Chumbivilcas, where the PCP-SL carried out multiple violent actions against authorities and civilians. The murder took place a few months after …
Orestes Rodriguez Campos, former Minister of Labor during the APRA government, was the victim of a terrorist attack by members of the PCP-SL as he was leaving the sports field of the Ministry of Labor. The attack occurred at 7:30 pm. Three subjects intercepted the vehicle: two shot with machine …
On July 3, 1990, three PCP-SL subversives assassinated the Provincial Prosecutor in the town of Pampas, province of Tayacaja, department of Huancavelica. This selective assassination occurred in the context of the PCP-SL's national offensive in 1990, when the death toll increased significantly in the provinces of Tayacaja and Churcampa. The …
On June 15, 1990, PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants assassinated the governor of the district of La Merced in Churcampa, Huancavelica. This assassination was part of a series of selective executions carried out by the PCP-SL against local authorities and alleged collaborators of the military forces in the area. The governor was …
The PCP-SL attacked the district of Layo, province of Canas, assassinating Mayor Claudio Huilca, Judge Jorge Padín and Governor Benigno Paca. This multiple attack against local authorities is evidence of the PCP-SL's strategy to eliminate the presence of the State in rural areas.
On December 15, 1989, in the district of Moya, province of Huancavelica, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered a teacher and a justice of the peace. This event took place in the context of the 1989-1990 Shining Path offensive, when the PCP-SL claimed to be close to a 'strategic balance' …
In the district of Moya, members of the PCP-SL murdered a teacher and a justice of the peace. In the district of Chopcca, a Shining Path detachment murdered Jose Soto, Guillermo Quispe, Domingo Taipe, Pablo Ataipoma and three unidentified community members. These murders were part of the PCP-SL's terror campaign …
On the night of December 3, 1989, a PCP-SL column entered Orurillo and assassinated eight people: IU mayor-elect Tomás Quispesayhua (secretary general of the district peasant federation), Godofredo Marrón (secretary general of SUTEP), Pedro Pablo Tito Limache (primary school teacher), Julio Céspedes (director of the Agricultural College), Víctor Quispesayhua (governor), …
Between November 29 and December 3, 1989, twelve people, mostly IU members, were murdered in the districts of Azángaro and Melgar. From candidates and elected authorities, the persecution extends to communal authorities. In the community of Choquepiñas, three authorities were lost in addition to the governor.
In Azángaro alone, between November 3 and 11, 1989, a score of people, including authorities, candidates and ordinary peasants, were assassinated by the PCP-SL insurgents in an effort to contain the will to vote with blood. The suffrage took place the following day and only in 5 districts of Azangar, …
In November 1989, the Shining Path PCP raided the town of Paccha, Vinchos district, Huanta province. During this incursion, 22 people were killed, including villagers and local authorities. This attack was part of a series of massacres that the PCP-SL perpetrated in the northern part of Ayacucho (Huanta, Huamanga, La …
On November 11, 1989, in the annex of San Blas, district of Chambará, in Bajo Cunas, the subversives of the PCP-SL congregated the community in the State School for Minors. They held a 'popular trial' that concluded with the assassination of Vidal Paredes Ballasco, president of the community. This event …
On October 13, 1989, a Shining Path column raids Muñani where they assassinate the mayor, a councilman and the secretary of the district peasant federation. This action was part of the PCP-SL campaign to disrupt the November municipal elections.
Santiago Aragón, a PUM militant who is taking over the mayor's office in Azángaro from Marcelino Pachari, declares that in many communities the authorities have resigned for fear of being assassinated by the Shining Path. Azángaro was one of the FDCP's strongest bases, but in the last few months, this …
In September 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated Mayor Juan Pando Prado and Isaac Salvatierra in Ccaccamarca, Ocros district. This was part of the Shining Path's strategy to eliminate local authorities in the Huamanga region. The assassination occurred in the same month in which the PCP-SL also executed the provincial mayor of …
In September 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered five people in the district of Huacapon, Cajatambo province. The victims were three local authorities: Mayor Juan Lizzeti Torres, Justice of the Peace Willy Lizzetti Salazar and Lieutenant Governor Inocente Cabanillas Rosales. Along with them, two teachers were murdered: Ángeles Concepción Chávez and …
The PCP-SL murdered five people in the district of Huancapon, Cajatambo province. The victims were Mayor Juan Lizzeti Torres, Justice of the Peace Willy Lizzetti Salazar, Lieutenant Governor Inocente Cabanillas Rosales, and two teachers: Ángeles Concepción Chávez y Solís. These murders were part of the Shining Path strategy of eliminating …
On Friday, May 19, 1989, a group of the PCP-SL assassinated Marcelino Pachari Roselló, provincial mayor of Azángaro and militant of the Communist Party of Peru "Patria Roja". The mayor was inspecting the reconstruction of the bridge that days before had been blown up by a detachment of the PCP-SL. …
Antenógenes Haro Cruz expanded his complaint, pointing to the President of CORDE Ancash, the Mayor of the Provincial Council of Huaraz and some members of the Civil Guard as the perpetrators of the kidnapping of his brother and César Mautino. At the same time, Pía Sabina Camones de Mautino, César …
On May 10, 1989, an armed column of the PCP-SL raided Chaquicocha, an annex of the San José de Quero district. During this action, the Shining Path guerrillas murdered 10 community members, among them several local authorities. In addition to the murder of the villagers, the subversives set fire to …
In May 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated the mayor of the district of Cachachi along with his wife, as part of its strategy to eliminate local authorities. The attack included the dynamiting of the municipal building. This event is part of the Shining Path offensive to liquidate associative enterprises and eliminate …
On April 12, 1989, in front of the population gathered in the square of Congos Alto, the Shining Path PCP assassinated 12 people, including authorities, teachers, the president of the community and community members. The victims had participated in a meeting to organize opposition to the Shining Path PCP. After …
Forty members of the PCP-SL, under the leadership of comrade 'Rosa', arrived in a stolen bus to Chongos Alto. Armed with a list and covered with balaclavas, they took twelve communal authorities of Chongos Alto and Chicche from their homes. They took them to the main square where, in a …
On April 5, 1989, the Shining Path guerrillas murdered a Municipal Agent and a watchman of the Production Unit in the town square of Chaquicocha. This attack was part of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against local authorities and SAIS workers in the Alto Cunas area. The event occurred …
In the early morning of February 13, 1989, an undetermined number of hikers entered San José de Quero and violently extracted Ciro Clemente Cairo, Mayor of the district, from his home. The PCP-SL militants killed him with two bullets on the access road to the community. Subsequently, they proceeded to …
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