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 September 1991, a military base was installed in Raucana, a human settlement in Lima where the Shining Path PCP had established the first and only open Popular Committee in Lima. The PCP-SL had been present since the founding of the settlement in July 1990, organizing the neighborhood defense against …
Police raids in Huaycán were carried out intermittently until March and April 1991, as part of the combined law enforcement operations in the human settlements of the Eastern Zone. These operations had begun in 1987, when nearly 300 settlers were detained in two successive raids. In 1991, military bases were …
In 1991, during Alberto Fujimori's administration, military bases were installed in the districts of Chongos Bajo, Huamancaca Chico and Chupaca, as part of the military counteroffensive in the Canipaco valley. These installations were added to the military bases previously established in 1990 in the districts of Chicche (Vista Alegre Annex) …
In 1991, military bases were installed in Huaycán and Raucana as part of the Peruvian State's counterinsurgency strategy. In Raucana, the Army installed a military base on September 6, 1991, which was maintained until the year 2000, militarizing and socially controlling daily life among the population. This organization of daily …
In November 1989, a military patrol visited the community of Pusacpampa in the context of opposition to the Shining Path order in the region. The military gathered the population and urged them to organize themselves into peasant patrols. This visit was part of an Army strategy to encourage opposition to …
On August 9, 1989, a group of 200 ronderos left Santa Rosa for Tambo in an action called operation Halcón. The reason for this operation was to reorganize the rondas in the highland districts of La Mar province, whose authorities, faced with the advance of the PCP-SL, had sent a …
In 1989, following the second attack on Uchiza in March of that year, the political-military headquarters was installed under the command of General Alberto Arciniegas Huby. That year, military bases appeared in Tulumayo, Nuevo Progreso, Pizana and Punta Arenas, which would serve to keep the Senderistas further away from the …
Beginning in 1989, the Peruvian army implemented large-scale operations in the Upper Huallaga that marked a turning point in the conflict with the PCP-SL. These operations began after the second attack on Uchiza on March 17, 1989, which resulted in a massacre of police and led to the re-declaration of …
In 1987, police raids began in Huaycán, during which nearly 300 villagers were detained in two successive raids. These operations were part of the State's response to the presence and infiltration of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Huaycán Project. The raids continued intermittently until March and April 1991. Later, in …
In the last days of December 1984, a counter-subversive Army base was installed in Chinche Tingo. This installation followed the decree of a state of emergency in the province of Daniel Alcides Carrión in December 1984, when the Army first established a military base in the district of Yanahuanca in …
In 1984, the communities in the Huanta area organized themselves into Civil Defense Committees and coordinated closely with the military. The patrols of Ccaccas, Ccanis and Patasucro, located in the highlands of the city of Huanta, as well as those of Tambo, Balcón, Acco, Challhuamayo and Ccarhuahurán, conducted scavenging campaigns …
In January 1984, General Adrián Huamán Centeno replaced General Roberto Clemente Noel Moral as Political and Military Chief of Ayacucho. Huamán, born in Ayacucho and a Quechua speaker, implemented a peculiar style that included political and economic measures to win over the population. He sought to attack subversion at its …
In 1983, the marines arrived in an unspecified village where they organized the Rondas Campesinas. This event is part of the broader context of human rights violations documented by the CVR, where multiple abuses committed by members of the armed forces against the civilian population were recorded. The testimony mentions …
In 1983, a military base was installed in Churcampa, department of Huancavelica. This installation was part of the Peruvian State's counterinsurgency strategy against the advance of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the region. The military base was established in the context of the constant strikes and strikes by miners in 1982, …
In 1982, the Peruvian army installed military bases in the districts of Castrovirreyna and Santa Inés in the department of Huancavelica. These military installations were established in the context of the internal armed conflict and the presence of the Shining Path in the region. The bases were strategically located in …
In December 1965, the Tupac Amaru Front, a guerrilla column in the central region of the country, was annihilated by counterinsurgent forces. This front was part of the guerrilla movements that operated in Peru between 1965 and 1967, which arose as a result of the agrarian problem and anti-landowner peasant …
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