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 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 …
The PCP-SL raided San Pedro, Canchis province, and assassinated the mayor, the governor, the president of the potable water company and a leader, burning the municipality and dynamiting two buses belonging to the Ormeño and Cruz del Sur companies. This multiple attack is evidence of the PCP-SL's violence against authorities …
In May 1992, the Shining Path PCP carried out an incursion in San Pedro, a district in the province of Canchis in Cusco. During this action, the subversive organization assassinated four local authorities. In addition to the murder of the authorities, the subversives set fire to the municipal building and …
Through Supreme Decree 024-91-DE/SGP, the Peruvian government extended the state of emergency for a sixty-day period beginning May 9, 1991 in the provinces of Chumbivilcas, Canas, Espinar and Canchis, located in the department of Cuzco, in the context of the Alberto Fujimori government's counter-subversive struggle against the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and …
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Civil Guard police post in Tinta, province of Canchis, department of Cuzco. This attack was part of the first incursions of the PCP-SL in the high provinces of the department of Cuzco. The attack on Tinta occurred in the context of an escalation of subversive …
On July 27, 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Camelid Technical Research Institute located in La Raya, on the border between the departments of Cuzco and Puno. This attack marked an important moment in the expansion of the internal armed conflict into the high provinces of the department of Cuzco. …
On May 26, 1981, Edmundo Cox Beuzeville was arrested along with other people in the town of Sicuani, province of Canchis, department of Cuzco. They were accused of being militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This arrest took place in the context of the early years of the internal armed conflict, …
On April 26, 1981, Edmundo Cox Beuzeville was denounced in the city of Sicuani as responsible for 27 attacks. This denunciation took place in the context of the first years of the internal armed conflict, when the PCP-Sendero Luminoso began its actions in the department of Cuzco. On May 26 …
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Civil Guard barracks in Sicuani, capital of the province of Canchis. This attack was part of a series of initial PCP-SL actions in the area, which also included damage to the railroad and the Municipality between January and May 1981. On May 26 of that …
On November 9, 1980, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out its first attack in the department of Cuzco. The target was the Communal Educational Center located in the town of Tinta, capital of the province of Canchis. This attack marked the beginning of the Shining Path's violent actions in the Cuzco …
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