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.
María Pupetela Villegas Regalado, one of the first inmates wounded in the May 6 operation, died of septicemia on May 11, 1992 at the Central Police Health Hospital. The Necropsy Protocol No. 2077-92 indicates that her body had 8 bullet wounds, all in the upper part, as a result of …
Between May 6 and 9, 1992, the National Police and the Army carried out the operation Mudanza 1 to transfer inmates from Pavilion 1-A. The militarized intervention resulted in the extrajudicial execution of 42 inmates and hundreds of wounded. The forces of order used explosives, gases, long-range rifles and grenades. …
At 8:30 in the morning of May 6, 1992, Juan Bardales Rengifo became the first victim of the Castro Castro operation when he was shot while struggling with a policeman near the gate of the lookout point. The inmate died as a result of the shot.
The police operation known as "Mudanza Uno" (Move One) began in the Shining Path wards of the Miguel Castro Castro prison in order to transfer more than 100 women to the Santa Monica prison. Given the refusal of the PCP-SL inmates and the resistance, the operation lasted four days and …
Between May 6 and 9, 1992, the government decided to retake by force the control of the wards where the accused and convicted terrorists of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso were being held. On May 6, members of the National Police entered by surprise and in the face of resistance used firearms …
On April 14, 1992, a raid was carried out at Castro Castro prison in the presence of prosecutors and members of the International Committee of the Red Cross, after a previous unsuccessful attempt that forced the National Police to sign a compromise agreement with the Shining Path inmates.
On July 9, 1990, 47 prisoners of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) escaped from the Castro Castro prison through a tunnel. Among the escapees were Víctor Polay Campos and Alberto Gálvez Olaechea, two of the main leaders of the MRTA. This massive escape represented a significant blow to the …
47 emerretistas, including leaders and militants, escaped through a 332-meter long tunnel that had been built over three years. The impact of the escape placed them once again on the national public scene and aroused sympathy in the places where they had been operating. The operation had been carried out …
On July 9, 1990, 47 MRTA prisoners escaped from Castro Castro prison through a tunnel. Among the escapees were Víctor Polay Campos and Alberto Gálvez Olaechea, two of the main leaders of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. This mass escape represented a significant blow to prison security in the country. …
Escape of MRTA leaders from Castro Castro prison. After this escape, the MRTA attempted a dialogue with the government through the kidnapping of a pro-Fujimori congressman, but was rejected. The organization subsequently concluded that its priority should be to rebuild its national leadership through the release of the imprisoned leaders.
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