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 May 1988, a military patrol confronted a group of hikers in the town of Pucurhuay. In the crossfire, a 2-year-old boy, a 14-year-old boy, and a local collaborator of the subversives were killed. After this confrontation, within a few days the villagers formed the Civil Defense Committee (CDC) of …
Families from ten communities gathered in Ccarhuapampa, on the outskirts of the city of Tambo, forming the first multi-communal village of displaced people. Later, other families from Uchuraccay and Iquicha joined them. From the beginning, Ccarhuapampa was organized around its Civil Defense Committee according to a military logic: the CDC …
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