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.
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New Shining Path directives: intensify work in universities, higher institutes, and night schools. "Overcoming the bend in the road" alludes to Guzmán's speech made from the cage. In one week …
Various sources agree that it was 200 to 250 Shining Path members who last weekend seized for five hours the nearly defenseless district of Aucayacu, with 15,000 inhabitants, in the …
After nearly a decade in Peru, with two constitutional governments elected by clear majorities, the second is preparing to hold new elections, amid a loss of popularity; a severe economic …
39 peasants from a remote jungle village, Canaire in the department of Ayacucho, have been massacred by Sendero Luminoso. The killing was apparently in retaliation for the village's efforts to …