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.
In 1995, the Puerto Ocopa patrol or Self-Defense Committee, which had been created on its own initiative in 1991, sought independence from the colonist patrol command led by Natalio Sánchez. Until then, this Asháninka round had been under the direct dependence of the Army and the colonist patrols, which caused …
In 1992, an Uchuraccaíño community member who was enrolled in the Self-Defense Committee of a neighboring community (San José de Secce) returned to see his hometown as part of a civil patrol. He arrived at a hill from where Uchuraccay could be seen and found the town in total silence. …
The Puerto Alegre Self-Defense Committee (CAD) was formed on March 21, 1991, with logistical and technical advice from the Peruvian Navy. This CAD played a fundamental role in the counter-subversive struggle and in the defeat of PCP-SL in Lake Imiria and in some areas of the Tamaya River, due to …
In 1991, with the change in the Peruvian Navy's counter-subversive strategy, a Self-Defense Committee (CAD) was formed in Masisea with advice from the Navy. This CAD was part of a broader strategy to win over the social base of PCP-SL in the Ucayali region and its tributaries. The Masisea ADC …
On September 23, 1990, the Asháninka Self-Defense and Development Central Committee No. 1 was formally created in response to the advance of the PCP-SL in the region. This committee arose after the assassination of Asháninka leader Pablo Santoma and other leaders during the VI CART Congress, where a contingent of …
On July 15, 1990, the First Central Committee of the Rondas Campesinas del Alto y Bajo Cunas was sworn in at the stadium of the Accac Bellavista annex. The act was presided over by Colonel EP Espinoza, before whom the Central Committee was sworn in under the presidency of Félix …
The fourth meeting for the organization of peasant patrols was held in Shicuy, an annex where the PCP-SL had formed a Popular Committee since 1987. At this meeting, the First Central Committee of the Rondas Campesinas del Alto and Bajo Cunas was formed, under the presidency of Félix Damián Huaynalaya. …
In January 1990, community members from the Quero annex, along with representatives from Santa Rosa de Huarmitá, San Roque de Huarmitá, Chaquicocha and Usibamba met on January 8, 1990 to agree to form a Self-Defense Committee and request support from the Army. This meeting took place in a context of …
On January 1, 1986, a group of sixty PCP-SL subversives raided the village of Agua Blanca, where a Self-Defense Committee had been organized under the leadership of peasant Andrés Cornelio Castañeda. In a popular trial, Castañeda was killed along with 15 other people. The peasant leader was tortured and brutally …
In July 1984, members of the Self-Defense Committee kidnapped residents of San Queruato, Ayna district. As a result of this kidnapping, two people were killed. This event occurred in the context of the formation and expansion of the Counter-Subversive Civil Defense Forces (DECAS) in the Apurimac River Valley, a period …
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