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 mid-1991, the Armed Forces installed themselves in Vista Alegre, Chicche district, the entrance zone to the Canipaco valley. This military installation was part of the counter-subversive strategy in the region and marked the beginning of a permanent military presence in the area. From this base, the Army controlled the …
The process of forming the peasant patrols in the Canipaco Valley began in 1991, after the installation of military bases in the region. The military gathered as many people as possible from each community and explained the reasons and needs for organizing the patrols. This formation was part of the …
Under Alberto Fujimori's government, a military base was installed in the San Juan de Jarpa district in 1990 as part of the state counter-offensive against the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Canipaco valley. This installation was part of a broader military deployment that included bases in Chicche (Vista Alegre Annex) that …
On November 4, 1989, in the context of a wave of violence in the Canipaco area of Junin, a column of the Shining Path PCP raided Accac Bellavista. In this attack, the PCP-SL murdered the wife, mother-in-law and three-year-old daughter of a policeman. This was part of a series of …
In November 1989, a military patrol visited the community of Pusacpampa in the context of the opposition to the Shining Path order that was developing in the highlands of Canipaco and Cunas. During this visit, the military troops gathered the local population and urged them to organize themselves into peasant …
The military arrived for the first time in the Canipaco valley after the event of April 12, 1989, which was the most shocking massacre in the entire Canipaco area. This military arrival was in response to the massacre perpetrated the previous day (April 11-12) in Chongos Alto, where authorities and …
On March 16, 1989, community members from the Canipaco valley arrived in the area that had been occupied by the Langainos (inhabitants of Yauyos province, Lima) and began the eviction. Previously, the langainos and community members from the Huasicancha district had invaded the Chongos Alto lands, supported by members of …
In January 1988, the Shining Path PCP installed the first Popular Committee in Chongos Altos, a district located in the province of Canipaco. This committee represented the consolidation of the PCP-SL's territorial control in the area, after an initial strategy of destroying the old state by harassing police posts and …
Since the second semester of 1987, the PCP-SL organizes popular committees in the territory of many communities of Junín, settling in the Canipaco valley since mid 1988. The communities of Alto and Bajo Tulumayo are convulsed by the action of the PCP-SL columns, as well as the communities of San …
In the last months of 1988, a state of emergency was decreed throughout the department of Junín. This decree was a response to the intensification of PCP-SL violence in the region, which included the destruction of police posts in Chongos Alto and Yanacancha in mid-1988, and multiple incursions into communities …
Between the end of 1988 and the first months of 1989, the PCP-SL carried out approximately five to six raids in the Llamapsillon annex. During these raids, people were forced to burn documents and women were forced to weave hoods for them. The PCP-SL prohibited parties and punished people when …
At the end of 1987, the PCP-SL consolidated armed columns that moved relatively freely between the highland and jungle zones of Junín. This mobilization capacity allowed it to decree more frequent "armed strikes" in the areas where it had influence and exercised greater control. The PCP-SL began to gain greater …
During the last months of 1987, the PCP-SL broke into small and remote ranches located in the High Zone of Canipaco, Alto Cunas and the heights of Yauyos (Lima) more than once. There were also frequent assaults on small mines in the heights of Chupaca and on the borders of …
In the second half of 1987, the PCP-SL made its first incursion into Chongos Alto, a district located in the Canipaco area. Shining Path columns repeatedly visited the district, marking the arrival of the 'new power' in the area. During these incursions, the PCP-SL militants addressed the villagers, especially the …
From the second half of 1987, the PCP-SL organized popular committees in the territory of many communities in Junín, settling in the Canipaco valley in mid 1988. By the end of 1987, the PCP-SL had armed columns that moved relatively freely from one zone to another in the highlands and …
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