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.
After the Shining Path attack of July 16, 1984 in Negro Mayo, where PCP-SL militants disguised as soldiers hijacked a bus and killed 30 people, initiating a campaign that left more than 100 dead in several communities, the community of Chaupihuasi managed to arrest four members of the PCP-SL. Those …
The Shining Path perpetrated a massacre of almost all the inhabitants of the village of Chaupihuasi. Peasants were killed without distinction of age, including 14 adult peasants, 10 children and older pupils of 7 and 8 years old who died together with their teacher at the school. Only very young …
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