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.
On September 11, 1993, a group of Ashaninka ronderos entered the Delta de Pichanaki annex and killed ten settlers, leaving two others wounded because they did not want to organize themselves into counter-subversive patrols. This event illustrates the human rights violations committed by the native patrols in their attempt to …
A column of approximately 200 Shining Path elements attacked eight colonist camps in the province of Satipo. They killed more than 55 people, including natives and settlers, and cut off the ears of 14 children. This massive attack exemplifies the brutality of the Shining Path against civilian populations, including the …
On August 18, 1993, three groups of alleged hikers, between one hundred and three hundred men, women and children, settlers and natives, entered seven communities in the Tsiriari valley. The communities attacked were Monterrico, San Isidro, Sol de Oro, Union Cubaro, San Francisco de Cubaro and Santa Isabel (colonists) and …
In August 1993, three groups of between 100 and 300 people, composed of subversives and masa (settlers and natives of all ages), attacked seven communities in the Tsiriari valley. During these assaults they killed 36 settlers and 21 natives, totaling 57 fatalities. The attackers took food, household goods, medicines and …
Between 1985 and 1988, the Shining Path commanders of the PCP-SL carried out selective assassinations of alleged delinquents or 'informers' in the colonist villages of the Central Jungle. The Asháninka population felt fear when they heard about these executions, but at the same time recognized a positive aspect in these …
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