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.
Oscar Ramirez Duran, known by the pseudonym 'comrade Feliciano', was captured by the police on July 14, 1999 in the district of Cochas, a few kilometers from the city of Huancayo. Ramirez Duran had been designated as secretary and political commander of the Central Regional Committee of the PCP-SL since …
On the night of February 19, 1990, a group of people with their faces covered with balaclavas and armed with rifles took the capital of the Cochas district, presenting themselves to the population as MRTA militants. One of the hooded men read out a list of names, among them Cirilo …
On January 19, 1990, the few remaining inhabitants of the town of Cochas agreed to plant a white flag and organize the peasant patrols, and then went to the town of Tunzo. There, together with residents from the communities of Parco, Huancamanta, Lucmayo and Macon (annexes of the Cochas district), …
In 1990, the military conducted an incursion in the Cochas district. According to the witness, the soldiers 'were disguised with colorful masks, and dressed like those chutos', evidencing the use of disguises to hide their identity during repressive operations.
Valuis Maravi, a resident of Andas in Cochas, was disappeared by Shining Path militants in October 1989. His disappearance occurred after he proposed to his neighbors to denounce the Shining Path, in a context where the villagers were tired of the abuses and food shortages imposed by the new Shining …
In June 1989, an Army patrol of approximately forty troops under the command of Captain "Davis" arrived in the community of Cochas. The military asked the population about the whereabouts of the subversives and established a military base for a few days. This military visit took place in a context …
In June 1989, an Army patrol composed of approximately forty troops under the command of Captain "Davis" arrived in the community of Cochas. The military asked the population about the whereabouts of the subversives. This military incursion occurred in a context where the PCP-SL had lost strength in the area, …
On September 12, 1987, a PCP-SL hiker column successively raided the districts of Cochas and Comas, in the Tulumayo basin. This event marks the beginning of the PCP-SL's violent activities in the Tulumayo region. The incursion is part of the new escalation of trekking operations that began in 1987 in …
On September 12, 1987, a Shining Path column of the PCP-SL successively raided the district capitals of Cochas and Comas, in the Tulumayo basin. During these incursions, the Shining Pathists threatened the local authorities and demanded their resignation, distributing a communiqué stating that the Communist Party of Peru had been …
In 1987, the PCP-SL began its violent activities in the Tulumayo basin, which includes the districts of Comas, Cochas and Mariscal Castilla in the province of Concepción. The key date was September 12, 1987, when a Shining Path column successively raided the capitals of Comas and Cochas, threatening authorities and …
In 1987, the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) began its violent activities in the Tulumayo basin. On September 12, 1987, a Shining Path column made successive incursions into the districts of Cochas and Comas. At the end of that same year, the MRTA also entered, albeit sporadically, …
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