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.
The state of emergency was extended for 60 days in the provinces of Chincheros, Andahuaylas, Abancay and Aymaraes. This extension is evidence of the persistence of the violent situation in the department of Apurimac.
In 1984, Chincheros, which was a district of Andahuaylas, became a province incorporating the districts of Huaccana, Ongoy, Ocobamba, Chincheros, Cocharcas, Uranmarca and Anco Huallo. This new province was established in a context of intense peasant mobilization and internal armed conflict. During the 1970s, Andahuaylas was a major focus of …
On December 30, 1982, the province of Chincheros was created, dividing the former province of Andahuaylas in the department of Apurimac. This creation took place in a context of intensification of the internal armed conflict in the area, since the province of Andahuaylas had been declared an emergency zone on …
In February 1982, in the locality of Chanta, district of Umaca, four community authorities were detained and disappeared by police officers. This occurred in the context of police repression that resulted in the detention of countless peasants accused of belonging to the PCP-SL. The police arrests were accompanied by looting …
Abimael Guzmán visited the Ongoy school in 1975, invited by the school's teachers, when one of the interviewees was a high school student. The talks dealt with the national reality and the problem of the peasantry, focusing his discourse on criticizing the Agrarian Reform and the seizure of land. He …
In 1974, the Andahuaylas Provincial Federation of Peasants (FEPCA), led by Julio César Mezzich, Lino Quintanilla and Félix Loayza, organized the largest peasant mobilization of the decade with the objective of totally eliminating the hacienda system and adjudicating land to peasant families. Of the 118 haciendas in Andahuaylas and Chincheros, …
The land seizure in Chincheros and Andahuaylas in 1974 was a significant event that indirectly affected the area known as 'Oreja de perro' in the province of La Mar. The most important precedent for this event was the death of 20 peasants in Ongoy in the 1960s. The land seizure …
The San Pedro massacre occurred in 1963 in the context of land disputes between communities and haciendas in the province of Chincheros (then part of Andahuaylas). The villagers of Callapayoc, in Ongoy, mobilized in dispute over the San Pedro hacienda. This peasant mobilization caused the death of at least 17 …
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