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 April 19, 1991, around 10:30 p.m., a military patrol of 15 soldiers under the command of Sub Lieutenant José Luis Israel Chávez Velásquez arrested six people who had just registered their electoral list 'Izquierda Unida Socialista' for the municipal elections: Zenón Huamaní Chuchón, Julio Arotoma Cacñahuaray, Eleuterio Fernández Quispe, …
In Azángaro alone, between November 3 and 11, 1989, a score of people, including authorities, candidates and ordinary peasants, were assassinated by the PCP-SL insurgents in an effort to contain the will to vote with blood. The suffrage took place the following day and only in 5 districts of Azangar, …
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