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.
Testimony collected in Sicuani in October 2002 documenting the mistreatment and torture suffered by a detainee in Yanamayo prison, located in Puno. The declarant narrates the conditions of humiliation and physical and psychological mistreatment he experienced during his imprisonment in this maximum security penitentiary. This testimony is part of the …
A witness recounted the mistreatment he suffered in the Yanamayo prison, located in Puno. This testimony is part of the denunciations of prison conditions in the maximum security prisons, which since 1992 have become spaces that have undermined everything that gives security to human beings. The testimony was collected in …
Testimony of a person who was detained and imprisoned, where he recounts the conditions of mistreatment and humiliation experienced in prison. The declarant describes how at 12 o'clock at night they were taken out one by one, stripped naked and doused with water, and interrogated about alleged activities and people …
There was an attack against the Qenqoro prison with a dump truck full of explosives, and several subversive members of the PCP-SL and MRTA managed to escape. This attack demonstrates the operational capacity of the subversive groups and their strategy to free their imprisoned militants.
The prison situation, poorly attended by the judges of penal execution, gave rise to riots and massacres in prisons where terrorism convicts were held. These events occurred in 1985, 1986 and 1992. The degrading conditions of human dignity in the prisons were not at all conducive to the rehabilitation of …
On September 8, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an assault on the Huancapi prison in the province of Fajardo. This event took place in the context of a series of armed actions aimed at expelling the police from rural areas and consolidating the territorial control of the PCP-SL in …
The PCP-SL carried out the assault on the prison (CRAS) in the city of Ayacucho, the most important military action in this period. In this action the main detachments that the SL had managed to form in its Main Regional Committee converged. It was as a result of this assault …
The assault on the High Security Prison (CRAS) of Huamanga took place, from where 304 inmates managed to escape, of which approximately 70 were hikers. The attackers spread throughout the city, dispersing and pinning down the police with gunfire while they subdued the prison guards. The Army troops did not …
The Shining Path PCP carried out an assault on the CRAS prison (Centro de Readaptación Social) of Huamanga in March 1982, managing to escape prisoners. This was one of the events of greatest impact during the initial period of the internal armed conflict, together with the assaults on police posts …
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