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 April 5, 1992, President Alberto Fujimori executed a self-coup d'état in Peru. This event marked a turning point in the counter-subversive strategy of the internal armed conflict. After the self-coup, repression intensified in a selective manner, with continuous reports of arbitrary detentions, torture and disappearances by counter-subversive forces. The …
Between December 1991 and January 1992, police and military forces launched a counter-offensive that succeeded in dismantling the MRTA column in the department of Cuzco. This operation took place after the MRTA made its appearance in the department by attacking the Ollantaytambo police post in the province of Urubamba on …
In June 1991, three important leaders of Socorro Popular (SoPo), an organization of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, were captured. Those arrested were Tito Valle Travesaño, Víctor Zavala Cataño and a leader whose name is not specified in this excerpt. Socorro Popular was a very complex structure that, after its militarization in …
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 …
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, …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Peruvian Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. They used helicopter gunships to bomb different villages, considering them, a priori, as 'red zones'. Pucallpa's aguajales became the walking cemeteries of dozens …
In 1988, an Army counter-subversive base was installed in the district of Santa Ana de Tusi, province of Daniel Alcides Carrión, department of Pasco. This military installation was part of the Peruvian State's counter-subversive strategy to combat the presence of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the region. The presence of this …
In December 1982, the Armed Forces (FFAA) were charged with conducting the counter-subversive struggle in the department of Ayacucho. This event marked a crucial turning point in the Peruvian internal armed conflict. From that moment on, there was a notable escalation of violence, especially from 1983 onwards, reaching its highest …
The Batir II Campaign was the second phase of the military operations known as the Batir Agreement, carried out in the context of the counter-subversive struggle in Peru. This campaign was carried out from November 1982 to March 1983, following the Batir I Campaign that had taken place between July …
The Batir I Campaign was a military operation that ran from July 1982 to October 1982, as part of the third phase known as the Batir Agreement. This campaign was followed by Batir II, which lasted from November 1982 to March 1983. These operations were part of the Peruvian government's …
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