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 1992, union leader Donato Bernal was murdered in La Oroya. His body was found dead near the Club Peruano neighborhood with a bullet in his head. This assassination occurred in a context of violence against union leaders in the mining region, where both the PCP-SL and the forces of …
On July 8, 1989, Shining Path dynamited an electrical substation in La Oroya. This attack was part of a series of terrorist actions against the infrastructure of the mining company Centromín Perú in the area. The dynamiting attacks continued throughout 1989, seriously affecting mining operations and the sector's economy. Days …
On June 29, 1989, a Shining Path column completely destroyed the installations of Centromín Perú's compressor house in Morococha. This bomb attack was part of a series of continuous attacks against Centromín Perú's machinery and facilities in the mining zone. As a result of the destruction, Centromín workers began to …
On May 7, 1989, as he was leaving an assembly, Antonio Cajachagua Leiva, general secretary of the Morococha mine workers' union, was shot in the head and killed. His former colleagues state that he was also against the strikes and attributed the assassination to the Shining Path. This murder took …
On April 15, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso dynamited the industrial relations offices and the air pipe at the Morococha mining camp, owned by Centromín Perú. This attack was part of a series of violent actions carried out by the subversive organization against mining installations in the central region of the …
On April 15, 1989, a Shining Path column carried out a terrorist attack by dynamiting the industrial relations offices and the eight-inch air pipeline of Centromín Perú in Morococha. This attack was part of a series of PCP-SL attacks against the mining infrastructure in the region. The attack affected the …
On April 7, 1989, the PCP-SL dynamited locomotive No. 32 of the Centromín Perú company in Cerro de Pasco. This attack paralyzed the transfer of ore from the Cerro de Pasco unit to the La Oroya smelter. The attack was part of a series of violent actions by the PCP-SL …
On April 7, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso dynamited a locomotive owned by Centromín in Cerro de Pasco. This attack was part of a series of violent actions against installations of the state mining company that intensified since December 1988. The attack occurred in the context of a campaign by the …
On March 23, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an attack against Centromín's facilities in Cerro de Pasco as part of a new attack aimed at generating conditions for an upcoming armed strike. This action cost the lives of two members of the police forces and three company employees. The …
Seferino Requis was a union leader of CENTROMIN - Peru murdered in the city of Cerro de Pasco in 1989. His death occurred in the context of a series of selective assassinations against union leaders and political authorities in the capital of the department of Pasco. Along with Tomas Miranda …
On December 31, 1988, at 10:40 pm, three diesel electric locomotives belonging to Centromín Perú were destroyed. This attack was part of a series of violent actions carried out during the 1988 Christmas season against installations of the state mining company. The attacks occurred in the context of labor conflicts …
On December 30, 1988, at 11:25 pm, three explosions blew up the 1.80 meter diameter pipe that fed water to the La Oroya hydroelectric plant. This attack was part of a series of attacks against Centromín Perú facilities during the 1988 Christmas season. The attacks occurred in the context of …
On December 26, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out one of the biggest attacks in Morococha, dynamiting the compressor house of Centromín Perú. This attack had serious consequences for the mine workers, who were paralyzed for 15 days due to the lack of compressed air necessary for the operation of …
On December 26, 1988, at 00:15 am, twelve armed individuals dynamited the compressor house and a transformer at the Morococha mining camp. This attack was part of a series of actions perpetrated by Sendero Luminoso against Centromín Perú facilities during the 1988 Christmas season. The attacks occurred in the context …
In the early morning of December 25, 1988, three towers of the cable rail system that transported tungsten from San Cristobal to Marth Túnel were dynamited. This attack was part of a series of attacks against Centromín Perú's facilities that occurred during the last days of December 1988. The attacks …
On August 10, 1988, a car bomb exploded in the offices of Centromin Peru. This attack occurred in a context of intense subversive activity by the PCP-SL during August 1988, the month in which the second session of the First Congress of the PCP-SL was also held. The attack was …
Leonidas Gómez Yalico was a union leader of CENTROMIN - Peru who was assassinated in the city of Cerro de Pasco in 1988. His death occurred in the context of death threats to political authorities and political and union leaders in the city since 1980. He was one of three …
In February 1986, a strike of Centromín Perú workers was called and lasted until March of that year. This strike took place in a context of union division, when the APRA mining leaders had formed the FETIMMAP in August 1985 to compete with the FNTMMSP. The strike represented a test …
In February 1986, a strike was called by the workers of Centromín Perú which lasted until March of that year. This strike was a test of strength between the APRA mining leaders and the non-APRA sectors of the union. The context was the division of the FNTMMSP and the formation …
Tomas Miranda Trinidad was a union leader of CENTROMIN - Peru murdered in the city of Cerro de Pasco in 1986. His death is part of a series of assassinations against union leaders and political authorities in the capital of the department of Pasco during the period of political violence. …
In November 1985, a column of 10 hikers entered the Centromín Perú Unit in Cerro de Pasco and dynamited the mills of the concentrator plant. This attack was part of a series of actions by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against mining installations in the central region of Peru. The attack caused …
In January 1984, military personnel viciously beat John Broadle, who was Superintendent of the Centromin Peru Mining Company at the Cobriza mining center. The aggression occurred after Broadle protested against the blowing up of the metal bridge by the military. This incident occurred in the context of the installation of …
In 1983, a military base was installed in Marcavalle, district of La Oroya, as part of the Peruvian State's counter-subversive strategy. This military installation had a significant impact on the presence of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the metallurgical zone of La Oroya, considerably limiting its capacity for action in the …
On July 8, 1980, the subversives attempted to dynamite the water reservoir of CENTROMIN Peru in La Oroya. This attack was part of the first violent actions of the PCP-SL in the central region of Peru, specifically in the Mantaro Valley. The objective was to sabotage the infrastructure of the …
On May 17, 1980, the same day that the so-called 'people's war' of the PCP-SL began in the district of Chuschi in Cangallo, Ayacucho, with the burning of ballot boxes, a detachment commanded by 'Feliciano' (Oscar Alberto Ramirez Duran) launched a dynamite charge against the premises of the Pasco Municipal …
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