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 December 27, 1984, a Civil Defense Committee in the Ayacucho highlands unanimously approved in assembly that those who had collaborated with the terrorists should be investigated and that the guilty parties would be annihilated by the Central authorities. That this appears in their minute book reveals that by 1984 …
The Marines, called 'the navy' by the local population, took control of Huanta. One of the first measures the Navy applied in Huanta was to group the peasants into villages and organize them into Civil Defense Committees, in the style of the 'strategic villages' organized by the US Army in …
On January 21, 1983, the Marine Infantry, called 'the navy' by the local population, took control of the Huanta area under the leadership of Commander Vega Llona, who would later be assassinated by subversives in 1988 in La Paz, Bolivia. This entry marked the beginning of military control of the …
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