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.
The peasant ronderos captured the murderers of the sub-prefect of Huancayo. After capturing them, they executed them and later 'fondearon' (threw them) in the Huacracocha lagoon. This event occurred in the context of the counter-subversive struggle in the Tulumayo region, where the peasant patrols had assumed the functions of internal …
The ronderos captured the murderers of the sub-prefect of Huancayo in the district of Comas, province of Concepcion. After capturing them, the ronderos executed them and later 'fondearon' (threw them) in the Huacracocha lagoon. This event occurred in the context of the organization of peasant patrols that confronted the PCP-SL …
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 …
On November 11, 1989, in the annex of Angasmayo, district of Chambará, a group of hikers raided the town. During this action, they murdered an engineer named Maraví, who worked on the Coyllor Project, and the owner of the only restaurant in the area. This occurred on the same day …
In June 1989, an Army patrol composed of approximately forty troops under the command of Captain "Davis" arrived in the community of Cochas. The military asked the population about the whereabouts of the subversives. This military incursion occurred in a context where the PCP-SL had lost strength in the area, …
In the early morning of February 13, 1989, an undetermined number of hikers entered San José de Quero and violently extracted Ciro Clemente Cairo, Mayor of the district, from his home. The PCP-SL militants killed him with two bullets on the access road to the community. Subsequently, they proceeded to …
The witness's sister was sexually assaulted by two subversives in 1989. When the first one finished, the other abused her in the same way. Then they left her and fed her some cookies, threatening to disappear her if she told her family. The victim began to bleed, did not scream …
In December 1988, a group of MRTA militants, uniformed and armed with rifles and other military equipment, raided Racracalla. They called the people to an assembly in the plaza to explain that their struggle was 'to conquer power for the people' and that in this task everyone had 'a place …
The hikers took the young women to the park called Ushlalatuco, where they raped them and prepared them physically and militarily. They also trained them to loot animals and learned how to handle weapons so that they could carry out raids. The girls who suffered these acts were sixteen years …
On October 7, 1987, members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) attacked the Concepcion police post in the province of Huancayo. During the attack, Ensign Henry Rojas Mori was killed. This attack took place in the context of a series of MRTA armed actions in different areas of the …
On September 12, 1987, a Shining Path column of the PCP-SL successively raided the district capitals of Cochas and Comas, in the Tulumayo basin. During these incursions, the Shining Pathists threatened the local authorities and demanded their resignation, distributing a communiqué stating that the Communist Party of Peru had been …
The MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) announced the beginning of its subversive work in October 1984 in the Mantaro valley. Its first actions consisted of agitation and armed propaganda activities carried out in the cities of Jauja, Concepción and Huancayo. This was the first public appearance of the MRTA in …
On June 1, 1982, a Shining Path detachment assassinated the lieutenant governor of Concepción, Vilcashuamán, after accusing him of having given lodging to the police and subjecting him to a "popular trial". Along with him, a former governor and a peasant from the same locality were murdered. This event was …
On December 13, 1980, alleged subversives dynamited a high tension tower of the interconnection line of the Mantaro Hydroelectric Power Plant in the district of Chambará, province of Concepción. This attack was part of the first subversive actions of the PCP-SL in the city of Huancayo and the Mantaro valley. …
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