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.
In January 2003, on the 20th anniversary of the Uchuraccay massacre, it was expected that a ruling would be issued on the statute of limitations. However, the judicial authorities considered that the legal period for the process to remain in reserve is 30 years, which means that the statute of …
On May 2, 1992, the Colina detachment kidnapped and murdered 9 peasants from Santa. The victims were detained and then executed or disappeared. The victims' relatives filed Habeas Corpus appeals that were declared inadmissible by the Judicial Power. The bodies were buried clandestinely using lime to make it difficult to …
Disappearance of 9 peasants, leaders of the human settlements La Dacha, San Carlos and Javier Heraud de El Santa. The case has a high probability of involvement of the Colina Group as responsible for the human rights violations.
On February 8, 1992, a subversive incursion in the community of Ulcumayo resulted in the death of 15 peasants. This attack took place in the context of the intensification of violence in the Junín region during the 1989-1992 period, when the PCP-SL was developing its V Plan to "Develop Bases …
On February 8, 1992, a subversive incursion in the community of Ulcumayo, Junín, resulted in the death of 15 peasants. This event occurred in the context of 1992, when violence reached its highest peak in the central region. Dynamite attacks, blackouts, sabotage, assassinations, disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions and guerrilla …
In November 1991, 37 peasants were massacred in the district of Santo Tomás de Pata, province of Angaraes, department of Huancavelica. The victims included women, the elderly and children. This event was part of the context of political violence that affected the country during the internal armed conflict. The massacre …
The young layman Jorge Cerron was assassinated in Huancayo for his pastoral work at the university and with poor peasants. Shining Path murdered him for his pastoral work and commitment to the popular sectors. This crime shows that not only religious but also committed lay people were victims of Shining …
An unofficial version reported that in Quiñota, Livitaca, Llusco and Ccapacmarca a column of the PCP-SL was acting. To date, 5 peasants have been killed. This information shows the active presence of the PCP-SL in the high provinces of Cuzco.
David Ritter Walker, a U.S. citizen, was arrested by members of the Armed Forces after a violent raid on his home for supporting the demands of the peasants for better conditions for agriculture. Monsignor Guido Breña reacted in defense of Fr. Ritter with a communiqué and made representations to the …
Four peasants from the community of Chuschi, province of Cangallo in Ayacucho, disappeared on March 14, 1991. Those responsible were identified as the head of the local police post and military personnel from the Pampa Cangallo base. This event occurred in a context of intensified political violence in the department …
On February 23, 1991, subversives murdered 23 peasants in the district of Ayna, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. This event occurred in the context of the political violence affecting the country during the first year of Alberto Fujimori's government. The event took place in the midst of an …
On July 10, 1990, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the SAIS Sollocota in the province of Azángaro, department of Puno, killing 7 peasants. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to destroy the associative enterprises created by the agrarian reform, in opposition to the peasant mobilizations that sought the democratic …
In the early morning of January 20, 1990, the Main Force of the PCP-SL headed by Juan Carlos Olivares attacked the SAIS Sollocota with 30 of its activists, resulting in the murder of 7 peasants. That same day, during an attack on the Azángaro market, 5 additional people were killed. …
5 peasants were executed by subversives in Chumbivilcas. The following day, Luis Valer, brother of Tany Valer, IU deputy, was tortured by paramilitaries and died in the hospital in the province of Espinar. These events are evidence of the violence exercised by both subversive and paramilitary groups.
In Ccachahui, Ranrapata, Chumbivilcas province, 21 soldiers dressed as peasants murdered 10 people: Balvino Huamaní Medina, Juan Huisa Pacco, Rosa Huisa Pacco, Rubén Alférez Triveño, Marcos Zacarías Huisa Llamoca, Quintín Alférez Cjuro, Telésforo Alférez Achinquipa, Marcos Torres Saihua, Julio Huamaní and José Huamaní Charccahuana. This massacre is evidence of human …
A military patrol intercepted and killed 14 peasants returning to their community of Ccasiahui, in the province of Chumbivilcas, Cuzco. The event occurred in the context of the general elections and the intensification of counter-subversive actions in the country. The peasants were intercepted when they were returning to their community. …
Between April 20 and 30, 1990, a massacre took place in the province of Chumbivilcas that marked a milestone in the internal armed conflict in the region. The Peruvian Army implemented a new counter-subversive strategy, acting as an army of occupation in the area. As a result of these military …
In 1990, in the town of Llaclla, province of Bolognesi, peasant Esau Moreno Cotrina, Nilton Loli Mauricio (Director of the Educational Center) and teacher Saturnino Cerrate were arrested by members of the National Police Special Operations Directorate. All three were accused of being Shining Path members. This arrest took place …
President Alan Garcia Perez held a ceremony in which he handed over weapons to organized peasants. The ceremony took place after the speeches of the commander called Huayhuaco. This delivery of weapons was part of a government strategy in the context of the anti-subversive struggle. The event took place at …
In December 1989, the Army destroyed an MRTA camp in Iscozacín, Oxapampa, resulting in the death of 43 alleged subversives. However, there is an alternative version that indicates that most of the victims may have been local farmers and not MRTA members. This event occurred a few days after the …
In December 1989, the Peruvian Army destroyed an MRTA camp in Iscozacin, province of Oxapampa. According to the official version, 43 alleged subversives were killed in the operation. However, there is an alternative version that states that most of the victims could have been local farmers and not MRTA militants. …
Members of the PCP-SL murdered 14 peasants for not complying with an 'armed strike' called by the subversive organization. This event occurred days after the PCP-SL destroyed electrical towers and caused a blackout in the city, carrying out 13 detonations in several areas as part of the imposition of the …
On April 4, 1989, 10 peasants were murdered in the community of Santa Rosa de Pachaclla, in the department of Huancavelica. According to the report, the victims were identified as presumably Shining Path members. This event is part of the chronology of violent acts registered in the region of Huancavelica …
Members of the PCP-SL attacked the community of Santa Rosa de Pachaccalla, killing ten peasants. This attack was part of the Shining Path offensive in Huancavelica during 1989, when the organization sought to regain presence in areas from which its columns had been dislodged.
In Pucallpa, Ucayali, peasants lifted a 16-day strike and celebrated with a demonstration the agreements reached with the government. The prefect denied permission for the demonstration, which provoked a confrontation. The police intervened in the mobilization carried out by the Federation of Peasants of Ucayali when they tried to deactivate …
On February 9, 1989, 8 peasants were massacred during a mobilization in Pucallpa. This event was denounced by the Catholic Church through the Human Rights Office of the Vicariate of Pucallpa. The massacre took place in the context of generalized violence in the department of Ucayali, where both subversive groups …
Eight peasants and one student were killed while marching to celebrate the end of a strike over refuge prices for corn and rice. The police shot at the demonstrators believing that Sendero Luminoso was involved, but it was not true. The wounded took refuge in the Vicariate as they feared …
In February 1989, ten peasants were killed in the community of Santa Rosa de Pachaclla. According to the CVR report, the victims were identified as presumed Shining Path members. This event occurred in the context of the expansion of political violence in the Junin region, during a period of intense …
In 1989, there were confrontations between the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and organized peasants from the communities of Chupaca and Santo Tomás de Paca. These confrontations left twenty-five community members dead in Santo Tomás de Paca. The confrontations occurred in the context of peasant resistance against the control and demands of the …
With the explosion of hyperinflation in 1989, the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA were unable to pay for the peasants' products. This economic crisis led the Confederation of Peruvian Peasants (CCP) to promote regional peasant strikes throughout the country. In Ucayali, the peasants grouped in the Federation of Peasants of …
In 1989, subversives raided the town of Santo Tomás de Pata, where they killed 25 peasants. This attack was part of a series of violent incursions in the area, including the town of Chupacc where 30 peasants were killed. The zone was under the administration of the political-military command, in …
In 1989, subversives raided the town of Chupacc, where they killed 30 peasants. This attack was part of a series of violent incursions in the area, as in the same year they also attacked Santo Tomás de Pata, killing 25 peasants. These events occurred in a context where the zone …
In 1989, violent confrontations took place between the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and organized peasants from the communities of Chupaca and Santo Tomás de Paca in the department of Junín. These confrontations resulted in thirty community members dead in Chupaca and twenty-five community members dead in Santo Tomás de Paca. The confrontations …
On October 13, 1988, the peasants of the Callejón de Huaylas began a strike to demand lower prices for agricultural inputs. This mobilization took place in the context of a serious national economic crisis and coincided with a national strike called by the CGTP in protest against the economic measures …
In October 1988, a column of the Shining Path PCP attacked the town of Puyhuán in the province of Junín. During this attack, the subversive group killed 15 peasants. This attack was part of a series of violent incursions by the PCP-SL in the region during that period, including a …
A small group of Shining Path guerrillas attacked an educational project for peasants run by Jesuit priests in the town of San Juan de Jarpa, located two hours from Huancayo. This attack is part of the Shining Path's strategy of attacking educational institutions linked to the Catholic Church. The objective …
In an ambush on a military patrol at the Rondos bridge, 13 soldiers were killed, generating a brutal response in which 20 presumed Shining Path members lost their lives, although according to family members, most of them were peasants who were not part of the subversion.
In June 1988, in the area of Cuticsa, province of Angaraes, a column of Shining Path members disguised as soldiers entered the town and killed 11 peasants. This attack occurred after two years of relative tranquility in the area, when the Shining Path restarted their actions taking advantage of the …
In June 1988, a Shining Path PCP column attacked the village of Cuticsa in the department of Junin. During this attack, 11 peasants were killed. This attack was part of a series of violent incursions by the PCP-SL in the region during that period, which also included the attack on …
On May 14, 1988, members of the Peruvian Army, in retaliation for an ambush on a convoy, entered the district of Cayara in the province of Victor Fajardo. They gathered the entire population and killed 35 peasants without explanation. On May 21, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers denied …
A massacre of peasants was committed by the Peruvian Army in Cayara. Not only was a machinery of silence and impunity set up, but also unjustifiable political maneuvers in the Congress of the Republic effectively prevented the official acceptance of the serious facts. The investigation had to be paralyzed due …
In 1988, in the locality of El Collpín, province of Santiago de Chuco, the Peruvian Army allegedly killed several peasants. This event occurred in the context of the counter-subversive offensive in the northern region of the department of Lima and southern Ancash, where the military forces were responding to the …
On August 9, 1987, a Shining Path column attacked the Lachocc Farm, located near the city of Huancavelica, owned by INIA (National Institute of Agricultural Research). During the attack, PCP-SL militants killed 9 peasants working on the farm. In addition to the murder of the workers, the attackers slit the …
The Special Court sentenced three peasants from Uchuraccay for the murder of eight journalists on January 26, 1983. Dionisio Morales Pérez was sentenced to 10 years in prison, Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles to 8 years and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe to 6 years, all for the crime of simple homicide. Although the …
Four years after the 1983 Uchuraccay massacre, the Correctional Court in charge of the case issued its conviction. The court convicted three peasants from the Ayacucho hamlet of Uchuraccay accused of the crime. This sentence came in March 1987, four years after the events that took the lives of eight …
On January 27, 1987, there was a massacre of peasants in the province of Chumbivilcas, department of Cuzco, perpetrated by the Civil Guard. This event occurred in the context of the highland provinces of the department, where the situation of the internal armed conflict was different from other areas. In …
During a period of intense political violence that coincided with prison riots in Lima and Callao, twenty peasants were murdered in the province of La Convención, Cuzco. This event occurred between June 22 and 28, 1986, in the context of an escalation of subversive violence in the country. The event …
On April 28, 1986, peasants were murdered in Usnuyoc, province of Acomayo, department of Cuzco. This occurred during the period of expanding violence in the southern Andes (1984-1988), when the internal armed conflict was beginning to intensify in the provinces of Cuzco. The province of Acomayo was one of the …
During the first half of 1986, multiple murders of peasants took place in the province of La Convención. On April 28 there were murders of peasants in Usnuyoc. This event was part of a series of attacks that also included murders in Totora and Vilcabamba on June 22, and of …
Between February and April 1986, the first massacres of peasants took place in the towns of Toraya, Lucre and Colcabamba, located in the province of Aymaraes, department of Apurimac. These massacres marked the beginning of the internal armed conflict in the highland provinces of Apurimac. The process of internal armed …
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