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 members of the vicariates of Ayaviri, Sicuani, Juli and Puno meet to evaluate the situation of violence in the region. They underline the need to know the data, the project and the path of the Shining Path in the area and to develop a code of codes for internal …
On the night of May 21, 1989, a column of the Shining Path PCP destroyed the facilities of the Waqrani Rural Education Institute (IER), located on the outskirts of Ayaviri. This attack was part of a series of violent actions carried out by the PCP-SL in Puno during May 1989. …
The Shining Path destroyed the Rural Education Institute of the Ayaviri Prelature in the Southern Andes. Shortly after, they threatened the prelate of Ayaviri and forced him to dialogue with other authorities. This attack is part of a strategy of intimidation against Church educational institutions working with peasant communities.
Father Marcial Couderc, pastor of Ayaviri and Vicar General of the prelature, together with four people responsible for parish movements, were kidnapped for 12 hours in the Sota farm of the Empresa Rural Umachiri, presumably by a paramilitary commando. The following day, Father Hilario Huanca Mamani, cooperating vicar of the …
Rallies were held in the cities of Ayaviri and Azángaro with the participation of more than 2,000 peasants. During these events, land was distributed. These rallies took place in the context of the peasant mobilizations for the recovery of land that had been taking place in the department of Puno …
During the peasant mobilizations for the recovery of land, there were massive detentions of peasants in the provinces of Ayaviri and Azángaro. On April 19, 1987, 300 peasants were arrested in both localities. In addition, 400 additional soldiers arrived in Azángaro as part of the control operation. These arrests occurred …
During the process of land seizures in the department of Puno, 300 peasants were arrested in the towns of Ayaviri and Azángaro. This event occurred in the context of a massive land occupation where approximately 12,000 peasant families occupied some 100,000 hectares in six provinces: Azángaro, Melgar, Carabaya, Huancané, Lampa …
A new departmental strike took place in Puno. In Ayaviri, a gigantic rally organized by the Single Federation of Peasants of Melgar (FUCAM) demanded the acceleration of agrarian restructuring. The land movement achieved an appreciable degree of legitimacy with the renewed support of the church and trade and professional organizations …
In May 1986, the PCP-SL began an offensive in the department of Puno that started on May 5 with an attack against the Secretary General of the PAP in Ayaviri. During this offensive, the subversive group burned the Cayacayani farm, belonging to SAIS San José, and also set fire to …
On February 18, 1986, the PCP-SL carried out an attack and assault on the Pomasi mine in Ayaviri, Melgar province. This attack was part of a Shining Path offensive that took place between February 17 and 22, 1986 in the region. The offensive included multiple actions in different localities, beginning …
On August 18, the police post of Umachiri, near Ayaviri, was attacked. After this attack the police forced their way into the premises of the Prelature's Social Works, taking the four employees into custody; they also entered the IER. The capitular vicar Francisco d'Alteroche protested and was treated as if …
The PCP-SL attacked a Civil Guard patrol boat in the locality of Ayaviri, province of Melgar, department of Puno. This attack is part of the first armed actions of the PCP-SL in the department of Puno during 1981. The event is inscribed in the context of the initial phase of …
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