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 1998, the Peruvian Navy withdrew support from the Self-Defense Committees (CAD's) in the Ucayali region. This decision was due to the fact that the CAD's became directly dependent on the Prefecture, thus changing the command and supervision structure of these organizations. The CAD's had been formed and supported by …
On May 14, 1996, there was an armed confrontation between members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and peasant patrols in the town of Santo Domingo, located in the Conchucos area. The confrontation resulted in the death of two hikers. This event occurred in the context of the decline of Shining Path …
In August 1995, there was an armed confrontation between the PCP-SL and the Quispincancha Self-Defense Committee (CAD), in the district of Iguain, province of Huanta. This event occurred in the context of the final phase of the internal armed conflict in the region. The confrontation is part of the history …
Shotguns and ammunition were delivered to nine Self-Defense Committees in the province of Paucartambo. This delivery of weapons is evidence of the State's strategy of arming the civilian population to confront subversive groups.
On October 20, 1993, shotguns and ammunition were delivered to nine Self-Defense Committees in the province of Paucartambo, in the department of Cuzco. This delivery of weapons was part of the counter-subversive strategy implemented by the Armed Forces in the southern Andean region during the pacification period. The Self-Defense Committees …
Ronderos of the Self-Defense Committee murder ten settlers in Chanchamayo, La Merced. This case exemplifies the excesses committed by some self-defense committees.
In April 1993, the remnants of the last MRTA column in the Alto Urubamba area, in the Selva Colorado sector, in the department of Madre de Dios, fell. This operation was part of the police and military counter-offensive that had begun between December 1991 and January 1992, which succeeded in …
In November 1991, a Shining Path column raided the district of Santo Tomás de Pata and killed 37 members of the peasant patrols. This attack took place in the context of a PCP-SL offensive against the Self-Defense Committees, considered by the Shining Path as the main obstacle to its political-military …
On June 24, 1991, in the Chaquicocha annex, President Alberto Fujimori delivered shotguns and pickup trucks to the local ronderos. This event took place in the context of the consolidation of the Self-Defense Committees in the Alto and Bajo Cunas area, which had been organized since the end of 1989 …
In mid-June 1991, the army forced the formation of peasant patrols in the area of Huaycahuacho, in the province of Lucanas. As had happened so many times in previous years in various communities organized in Self-Defense Committees (CAD's), that same month members of the PCP-SL entered Huaycahuacho and assassinated six …
In mid-June 1991, the army forced the formation of peasant patrols in the area of Huaycahuacho, in the province of Lucanas. This forced formation of self-defense committees was part of the army's counter-subversive strategy in the region. As happened in other communities organized in CAD's in previous years, that same …
At the end of 1991, the Army entered the province of Satipo and compulsively organized the population into urban and peasant patrols. The native patrols, which had been confronting the PCP-SL on their own initiative, received support from the army. In 1991, the Ashaninka of the Ene and Tambo rivers …
In 1991, the Peruvian Army installed a counter-subversive base in Cutivireni, located in the district of Rio Tambo. This installation was part of a broader military strategy in which the Army established bases in strategic areas of the central jungle to combat the Shining Path PCP. The base was established …
The year 1991 marked a decisive turning point in the PCP-Sendero Luminoso offensive in the Central Jungle region. Beginning that year, the Armed Forces, together with the Asháninka population organized in Rondas or Self-Defense Committees, began an important counter-offensive that hit the PCP-SL hard, especially in the Ene River area. …
In 1991, the armed forces, particularly the Peruvian Navy, implemented a significant change in their counter-subversive strategy in Ucayali. This new strategy was based on winning over the social base of the PCP-SL through civic actions that demonstrated to the civilian population that the armed forces respected the lives of …
In 1991 there was a turning point in the Shining Path offensive in the Central Jungle region. The Armed Forces, together with the Asháninka population organized in Rondas or Self-Defense Committees, began an important counter-offensive that hit the PCP-SL hard, especially in the Ene River area. Between 1991 and 1993, …
In mid-December 1990, the Political Military Command organized a congress of peasant patrols in the province of Concepción. This event was part of the Army's strategy to organize and centralize the counter-subversive patrols in the region. The congress was held in the context of the counter-subversive struggle, following the model …
In mid-July 1990, at the end of Alan Garcia's administration, General Delgado Rojas, Political and Military Chief of the Junin emergency zone, organized the First Regional Congress of Rondas in Bellavista, district of Jarpa, in the province of Chupaca. The congress was attended by rondero delegates from the valleys of …
Second meeting for the organization of peasant patrols in the Alto and Bajo Cunas area. Representatives from the annexes of Chala Alta and San Pedro de Sulcán joined the community members from Quero, Santa Rosa de Huarmitá, San Roque de Huarmitá, Chaquicocha and Usibamba who had participated in the first …
Felix Damian Huaynalaya, president of the peasant community of Quero, in light of the events of November 9 and 10, 1989, urged his leaders to organize the defense against the PCP-SL. On December 22, 1989, a visit was made to the Army Headquarters to request support to organize the population …
In November 1989, a military patrol visited the community of Pusacpampa in the context of the opposition to the Shining Path order that was developing in the highlands of Canipaco and Cunas. During this visit, the military troops gathered the local population and urged them to organize themselves into peasant …
In July 1989, the PCP-SL carried out an incursion in Choimacota, Sivia district. This action occurred after the Peruvian Army organized the villagers into Self-Defense Committees (CAD). The raid was part of the Shining Path offensive in the late 1980s in the Apurimac River Valley, when the PCP-SL intensified its …
There was a confrontation between the PCP-SL and an army patrol in Cotabambas. From that moment on, Self-Defense Committees began to be organized in the different provinces of the department, as part of the counter-subversive strategy.
In April 1988, the Shining Path PCP attacked the town of Pichiwilca, which was the base of the Self-Defense Committees of the Apurimac River Valley. The attack was supported by a large contingent of peasants from the local subversive force. The villagers of Pichiwilca managed to alert the ronderos of …
The self-defense groups in the communities studied were formed at the initiative of the Cangallo and Vilcas military bases. The ronderos began to organize in 1987. At the beginning, they had no weapons and only served as an alarm for the Base. The Base forced the formation of ronderos, first …
Between 1986 and 1987, at the height of the boom in the links between coca leaf producers and drug-trafficking buyers, the Shining Path columns intensified their actions in Apurímac. This intensification would help, according to PCP-SL claims, to enter a new and superior stage called 'strategic balance'. This second stage …
On December 6, 1985, the ronderos of Totora confronted the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This confrontation occurred in the context of a series of Shining Path actions in the Vilcabamba area during November 1985, when the PCP-SL had restarted its actions by taking over several villages and recruiting youths between 10 and …
On November 24, 1984, a combined police, military and self-defense committee operation, apparently coming from the province of La Mar in Ayacucho, disappeared the community of Lucmahuayco. The villagers were killed and the survivors were taken to the city of Quillabamba to be prosecuted as terrorists. The counter-subversive forces accused …
On August 10, 1984, 42 community members from Culluchaca were detained by members of the 'Montoneros' (Self-Defense Committees) from Patasucro, Cachas, Janes and members of the Marine Infantry. The Montoneros showed up heavily armed with sticks, knives, and rapiers, looted belongings, grain, clothing, kitchen utensils and animals, and took the …
In the district of Andarapa, the police started the first organizations of Rondas Campesinas to confront the growing increase in terrorism. This process began early in 1983, motivating peasant communities to form their self-defense committees. The formation of these patrols was a response to the intensification of confrontations between the …
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