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 May 1, 1991, in the locality of Quillispampa, Cajabamba province, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso executed the President of the Peasant Community. The assassination was perpetrated under the accusation of not collaborating with the subversive organization. This was part of the Shining Path's strategy of eliminating local authorities who resisted their …
On February 2, 1990, in the community of Marayniyoc, there was a surprise Shining Path incursion that resulted in the death of several ronderos and community authorities. The fallen ronderos were Bernardino Parado, Felipe Sosa, Erquinio Sosa and Avelino Salazar. Feliciano Suárez, who was president of the community, was also …
In November 1989, near the Pilcomayo district, three authorities of the Chaquicocha annex were ambushed and murdered by the PCP-SL. The victims were Viviano Cueva Macha, Onedino Damian Macha (Administrator) and Javier Macha Tacza (Community Prosecutor). This attack was part of a wave of systematic assassinations against local authorities that …
In November 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 22 peasants in the town of Paccha, Vinchos district. The victims included ronderos and local community authorities. This attack occurred in the context of the second wave of sustained confrontations between the PCP-SL and the peasant patrols that took place between 1989 and …
In the early morning of April 12, 1989, the PCP-SL perpetrated a massacre in Chicche. The day before, April 11, authorities and residents representing the communities of Chicche, Chongos Alto, Llamapsillón, Palaco, Vista Alegre and Palmayoc had met clandestinely in Chongos Alto during the weekly fair to plan defense actions …
On April 11, 1989, the day of the weekly fair in the district of Chongos Alto, authorities and residents representing the communities of Chinche, Chongos Alto, Llamapsillón, Palaco, Vista Alegre and Palmayoc met clandestinely somewhere in this district with the purpose of planning defense actions against the presence of the …
In January 1989, the PCP-SL kidnapped Víctor Lozano, communal authority of Chicche and delegate of his community to the SAIS-Cahuide, together with Manuel Soto, anthropologist and promoter of the NGO CICEP that maintained projects in the area. Both were tortured by the subversives. Later, they were shot to death in …
On December 15, 1983, a Shining Path column entered the community of Santa Carmen, in the district of Chungui, killing 9 people. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to eliminate local opposition that represented an obstacle to its expansion in the area. The Shining Path columns sought to …
In September 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated five community authorities in the town of Cayramayo, Santillana district, Huanta province. This was part of the Shining Path's strategy of eliminating traditional authorities and any form of organization existing in the peasant communities. The assassination of local authorities was part of the …
Fortunato Gavilán García, lieutenant governor of Uchuraccay, was killed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso when he tried to flee into the jungle. Gavilán had been a central figure in the events of January 1983, actively participating in the capture and threatening of peasants from Iquicha, whom he threatened to kill by …
The day after the capture of fourteen Iquichan peasants suspected of belonging to or supporting the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, the villagers of Uchuraccay gathered in the square to judge the prisoners. The trial was carried out by taking the detainees one by one to the square to testify before the community. …
After the trials carried out in the Uchuraccay plaza against the imprisoned Iquichanos and the women relatives of the guide Juan Argumedo, the community members Constantino Soto Aguilar and Mariano Ccunto were sent to the Tambo Civil Guard post. Their mission was to inform the authorities about the deaths of …
In the town of Vinchos, district of Pallanchacra, where a mineral concentrator of the Vinchos Mining Company was located, PCP-SL militants assassinated the wife of the community president in 1983. This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to destroy the existing system of authorities in the highlands of the …
In January 1983, community members of Huaychao, in the highlands of the province of Huanta, killed seven Shining Path members in reaction to the assassination of community authorities. This action represents one of the first violent responses of peasant communities to the authoritarian project of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The event …
Silvio Chávez Soto, secretary of the Uchuraccay community, was kidnapped around mid-1983 and presumably killed by the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path. Before the kidnapping, Chavez Soto had filed complaints against Severino Huascar Morales Ccente, who had been responsible for the PCP-SL in the area, for the theft …
In December 1982, the PCP-SL assassinated the president and lieutenant governor of Huaychao, Eusebio Ccente and Pedro Rimachi, in the middle of the town square. They were accused of representing state power. This assassination occurred almost at the same time as the assassination of the president of the community of …
The Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the president and lieutenant governor of the community of Huaychao in December 1982. This was part of a series of assassinations of peasant leaders in neighboring communities in the highlands of Huanta province. These assassinations were a determining factor that led the communities …
In December 1982, the PCP-SL assassinated the president of the community of Uchuraccay, Alejandro Huamán Leandro. This assassination was part of a systematic strategy of the PCP-SL to eliminate local authorities accused of representing state power. The assassination occurred in the same month that the president and lieutenant governor of …
In December 1982, the PCP-SL assassinated the president of the community of Uchuraccay, Alejandro Huamán Leandro. This assassination was part of a broader PCP-SL strategy to eliminate local authorities representing state power. In the same month, the PCP-SL also assassinated the president and lieutenant governor of Huaychao, Eusebio Ccente and …
Alejandro Huamán, president of the Uchuraccay community, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in late November or early December 1982. The murder was in retaliation for having led the expulsion of Shining Path militants from the community in October 1982. He was also punished for having removed and burned a …
In late November or early December 1982, the Shining Path PCP assassinated Alejandro Huamán, president of the Uchuraccay community, along with community member Venancio Auccatoma. This assassination was a direct reprisal against Huamán, who had led actions of frontal rejection against the Shining Path presence, including the tearing down and …
In February 1982, in the locality of Chanta, district of Umaca, four community authorities were detained and disappeared by police officers. This occurred in the context of police repression that resulted in the detention of countless peasants accused of belonging to the PCP-SL. The police arrests were accompanied by looting …
In February 1982, in the town of Andarapa, three community authorities were detained by members of the Civil Guard. Later, these authorities were assassinated by the same police. This occurred in the context of an intensification of police repression in the province of Andahuaylas, which resulted in the detention of …
At the end of 1982, members of the PCP-SL from Chapi, San Miguel, arrived in the communities of Chiquintirca and Anchihuay, in Chungui. Initially, the population accepted their presence. However, when the authorities refused to collaborate and leave their place to the new Shining Path commissioners, the murders began and …
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