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.
Alleged subversives attacked Bravo Quispe, mayor of the district of Yanacancha in Pasco. As a result of the attack, the mayor's driver and other people not identified in the report died. This attack took place in the context of the final period of the cycle of violence in the central …
In the early morning of May 17, 1992, a contingent of PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants, dressed in military uniforms to look like army soldiers, took over the town of Quiparacra. The subversives murdered seven people, among them a councilwoman, in the presence of the villagers. The victims were Isabel Alcántara (councilwoman), …
On May 14, 1992, a contingent of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered three annexes of the district of Ulcumayo, in the province and department of Junin. This action was part of a series of terrorist incursions that the PCP-SL carried out in May 1992 in various districts of the area, as …
On May 13, 1992, the main PCP-SL force in Canchis carried out a series of selective assassinations in the district of San Pedro. The Shining Pathists assassinated the mayor, the governor, the president of the potable water system and a local leader. During the raid, they also burned the municipal …
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 …
On February 14, 1992, a package of 500 grams of dynamite was placed at the door of the house of the former mayor of the district of Villa El Salvador, Michel Azcueta. This attack occurred on the same day that the PCP-SL had decreed an armed strike in Lima, and …
On Sunday, February 2, 1992, a Shining Path PCP contingent of approximately fifty men entered several ranches in the district of Ulcumayo, in Junin. In Huallamayo, Juan Cordova and three of his sons were murdered for promoting the organization of a peasant patrol. This assassination was part of a caravan …
On February 2, 1992, a PCP-SL contingent of approximately 50 men carried out a series of violent raids in several towns. In Huallamayo, Juan Córdova and three of his sons were murdered for promoting the organization of a peasant patrol. This action was part of a caravan of terror that …
On February 2, 1992, a PCP-SL contingent of approximately 50 men carried out a series of violent raids in the towns of Tambillo, Auquimarca and Huallamayo. This action was part of a caravan of terror against the system of authorities, annihilating people supposedly opposed to their cause. In total, 21 …
In 1992, Shining Path militants assassinated the Mayor of the District of Huaura, Jesús Morales Bermúdez, along with employee Róger Huerta. This murder was part of a series of selective assassinations perpetrated by the PCP-SL in the coastal provinces since 1992, the year of Abimael Guzmán's capture. The Shining Path's …
On August 9, 1991, a group of subversives assassinated the mayor of Pariacoto and two Polish priests in the district of Pariacoto, province of Huaraz, department of Ancash. This attack was part of a series of selective attacks intensified by the PCP-SL during that period, which included actions against local …
On July 17, 1991, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the provincial mayor of San Antonio de Putina, Prudencio Sulca, along with two municipal councilors in the Calacala farm. This assassination was part of a systematic campaign of elimination of local authorities carried out by the Shining Path in the department of …
Laurentino Mendoza Janampa was President of the Ronda Campesina and Community Prosecutor of the community of Pucurhuay, Ticlacayán district, Pasco province. In May 1988, after a confrontation between a military patrol and a group of hikers in Pucurhuay, the villagers formed the Civil Defense Committee (CDC) and elected Laurentino Mendoza …
On February 5, 1990, the mayor of the district of Cachachi, Eleuterio Roncal, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Tambería Cachachi, Cajabamba province. This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy of systematic elimination of local authorities who resisted their political-military project or who did …
Angel Ayala, an engineer from the Micro region of Bolognesi, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Llaclla in 1990. This assassination took place in the context of an escalation of Shining Path violence in the area between 1989 and 1993, a period in which the PCP-SL …
The PCP-SL attacked Minero Peru's facilities at the Gavilan de Oro mine in the district of Ananea, province of San Antonio de Putina. During the attack, 9 policemen and a private security guard were killed. In addition, the deputy mayor and the district governor were killed. This attack was part …
Manuel Espinoza Monroe, aprista provincial mayor of Leoncio Prado in the department of Huanuco, was assassinated on June 15, 1989. This crime took place in a context of intensifying political violence in Peru, where local authorities, especially mayors, were frequent targets of subversive groups. The assassination was part of a …
On Thursday, April 20, 1989, at 7:30 p.m., after several explosions and a subsequent blackout, a column of the PCP-SL took the main square of Acolla. The Shining Path guerrillas captured the APRA mayor Víctor Mayta Galarza and after a popular trial they assassinated him with two bullets to the …
In 1989, in the city of Huamachuco, Shining Path detachments of the PCP-SL successively assassinated two of the city's mayors. First, Mayor Ricardo Woolcott Morales, an APRA militant, was assassinated, followed by his replacement, Víctor Espinoza Luna. These assassinations were part of the PCP-SL strategy of eliminating local authorities to …
In 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated several people in Raján, Ocros, including Rosario Rojas (Vice President of the Community), Abraham Castillo (Mayor), Martín Rojas, Samuray Rojas and Hitler Rojas. The latter three were apparently killed for asking for quotas on behalf of the PCP-SL. The violence continued in 1991 when Eva …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Shining Path offensive extended to targets in coastal towns. In this context, the PCP-SL assassinated Edgardo Reyes, who was mayor of Supe Pueblo. This assassination was part of a broader PCP-SL strategy of attacking local authorities in coastal areas. The attack on Supe Pueblo was …
In 1989, in the district of Ámbar, near Huacho, the PCP-SL carried out an attack against the Police Post and the Municipal Palace. This attack was part of the Shining Path offensive that extended between 1989 and 1990 to targets in coastal towns. The attack resulted in the death of …
On July 6, 1986, a group of Shining Path members of the PCP-SL assassinated the wife of the lieutenant governor of the community of Sacsamarca, district of Huancavelica. This assassination occurred during a period of relative withdrawal of violence in the province of Huancavelica, between 1985 and 1988, when subversive …
On June 28, 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated a councilman and a leader in Layo, province of Canas, department of Cuzco. This event was part of the period of expansion of violence in the southern Andes, when the Shining Path intensified its actions against local authorities and leaders in the …
Michel Azcueta, a militant of Izquierda Unida (IU), was reelected mayor of Villa El Salvador in 1986, after being elected for the first time in 1983. Azcueta had led the campaign to establish VES as an independent district in 1983. His reelection took place in a context of political competition …
In 1986, a group of 5 hikers summoned all the inhabitants of Rahui to a meeting in the local school. During the meeting, comrade Hernán introduced himself as the person in charge and threatened the population, demanding that they all resign from the positions they held in service to the …
Leonor Zamora, mayor of Ayacucho, was arrested by court order on charges of misappropriation of funds and against the duties of office. The detention was ordered by a judge. This event occurred during the month of July 1985, in the context of the transition from the government of Fernando Belaunde …
In 1985, the hikers returned for the second time to the Pilchaca district. During this incursion, they left letters addressed to local authorities demanding that they resign from their posts. The letters contained explicit threats indicating that if the authorities did not heed the resignation demand, they would be executed …
In 1985, in the district of Huaccaña, province of Parinacochas, the mayor and two villagers were murdered. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of PCP-Sendero Luminoso actions in the southern part of Ayacucho. The district of Huaccaña had been identified as an area with PCP-SL support bases …
On September 8, 1984, at 11:00 a.m., a group of subversives of the PCP-SL took the town of Chinche Tingo. The Shining Path militants murdered four people: Flavio Guzmán, professor Pablo Bustillos Loyola, Florencio Loyola Esteban and Víctor Rojas. The victims had been active promoters of vigilance measures and denunciations …
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 …
In July 1984, the director of the state school San Ramon in Huamanga was assassinated. This event occurred in the context of an intensification of violence in the provinces of Huamanga, Huanta and La Mar, where 1984 was recorded as one of the years with the highest number of civilian …
On February 18, 1984, approximately 200 heavily armed subversives raided five villages in the province of Tayacaja in Huancavelica. During this incursion, they massacred 15 peasants. Among the victims were two municipal agents and a lieutenant governor. This attack was part of the political violence affecting the region during the …
On February 7, 1984, in the community of Sacsamarca, the former president of the community's Administrative Council was assassinated by militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The victim was accused of collaborating with the police. This murder is part of the PCP-SL's strategy of eliminating local authorities and people considered to …
In 1984, at approximately noon, the Shining Path members made their first incursion into the district of Pilchaca. Not finding the local authorities at that time, the Shining Path members communicated to the entire population that all authorities should resign from their posts. This first visit marked the beginning of …
On July 11, 1982, in the town of Hualla, in the province of Victor Fajardo, Ayacucho, the mayor and a local merchant were murdered. The victims were accused of being informers for the authorities. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of political violence in Ayacucho during 1982, …
At the end of 1982, the PCP-SL carried out a non-fatal attack against former mayor Augusto Tovar Tovar in Aucayacu. This attack was part of a series of selective actions against local authorities that the PCP-SL carried out in the Alto Huallaga area during that period. The attack against Tovar …
Since 1981, the districts of Manta, Moya, Vilca, Acobambilla and Huayllahuara, located along the Vilcas River, began to be visited by the subversives of the PCP-SL. In 1982, the first incursions and "town seizures" took place, attacking especially the representatives of the "old power", i.e. mayors, lieutenant governors and justices …
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