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 May 1992, the Shining Path PCP carried out an incursion in San Pedro, a district in the province of Canchis in Cusco. During this action, the subversive organization assassinated four local authorities. In addition to the murder of the authorities, the subversives set fire to the municipal building and …
On December 21, 1991, there was an armed confrontation between law enforcement forces and MRTA militants in Cedroccasa, district of Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, in which four MRTA militants died. In this confrontation, four MRTA militants were killed. This was a definitive blow to the front that MRTA had …
On May 4, 1991, a Shining Path detachment assaulted the Ollantaytambo police post. During the attack, three policemen guarding the facility were killed. This assault was part of a series of PCP-SL attacks against police posts and authorities in the Cuzco region during that period. The attack took place in …
In December 1990, 18 murders were registered in the province of Chumbivilcas. This event, together with the discovery of the mass grave in Chillccahuico and the discovery of a clandestine cemetery apparently used by PNP groups, created a context of concern about the government's respect for human rights. Up to …
On September 24, 1990, a group of drunken policemen, according to testimonies, arrested lawyer Marcelino Valencia in Chumbivilcas. Valencia was an advisor to the Agrarian League and a defender of peasant communities. This event occurred in the context of military and police operations in the highland provinces of Cusco and …
Balvino Huamaní Medina, 60 years old, died in the house where they were being held. He was forced to drink liquor with a strange substance that one of the soldiers put in his cup. The necropsy protocol revealed that he died as a consequence of cardio respiratory arrest, severe encephalic …
Ten detainees were taken to the Capullullo hill where they were extrajudicially executed. The soldiers placed the people in a horizontal line and detonated explosive devices, immediately after which they shot them with machine guns. The bodies were thrown into pits. The victims were: Julio Huamaní Huisa, José Eusebio Huamaní …
Three women approached the place where their relatives were detained carrying food and documents: María Pacco Llactahuamán, Virginia Huisa Pacco and Francisca Triveño Huamaní. The women were tied by the neck and arms. Two of them, who had recently given birth, were tied by the neck to carry the babies …
Seven people looking for a stolen donkey were detained by the military patrol: Balvino Huamaní Medina, Juan Huisa Pacco, Zenón Huisa Pacco, Marcos Zacarías Huisa Llamocca, Gregorio Alferes Triveño, Quintín Alferes Cjuro and Telésforo Alferes Achinquipa. Ochoa Lacadio was also arrested when he approached. In the Suracocha lagoon, the eight …
Isabel Leocalla de Alcahuamán was arrested and taken to the house of Aurelia Huamaní Apfata. The patrol leader nicknamed 'Negro' took her to the kitchen and raped her against her will. After being forced to drink alcohol and a whitish substance, a group of 10 armed men raped her one …
Jesús Jauja Sullo and Hermenegildo Jauja Salazar were arrested when they came from Chuchumake-Tirani to participate in an operation in Fuchungo. Hermenegildo Jauja Salazar was found dying on the ground. The community members testified that they had interrogated him, put him in the water and beaten him. He died as …
A group of ten soldiers under the command of a lieutenant arrived in Fuchungo and arrested several people. Sebastián Apfata Inga, his son Santiago Apfata Aroni and his wife Rosaura Aroni Álvarez were detained along with Aurelia Huamaní Apfata, Nicolás Apfata Inga and Marieta Gómez Huillca. They were all victims …
Between April 19 and 30, 1990, a massacre took place in Chumbivilcas, province of the department of Cusco, perpetrated by the Peruvian Army. Seventeen people died during this event. Women were victims of rape during the massacre. The rape victims survived and later denounced the facts to the corresponding authorities.
An Army patrol from the Antabamba Base, under the command of Lieutenant EP nicknamed 'Negro' or 'Negrón', raided several villages on the border between Antabamba and the province of Chumbivilcas. The patrol killed 13 peasants who were previously tortured, raped 3 women and disappeared 8 people, including a girl of …
Between April 12 and May 1, 1990, a military patrol from the Antabamba base conducted a tour of the districts of Antabamba, Oropesa, Quiñota, Llusco and Santo Tomás in the provinces of Antabamba (Apurímac) and Chumbivilcas (Cusco). During this operation, the patrol raided peasant communities suspected of forming support bases …
The PCP-SL raided the districts of Quiñota and Llusco between February 15 and 16, 1989, killing seven people in the communities of Llaullimarca and Otuta as part of its strategy of territorial control and elimination of local authorities.
Approximately 30 members of the Shining Path entered the community of Mosjo. They gathered the villagers in the school, sent some women to look for weapons and tied up four people and put them on the ground. Two of them were killed in front of the other villagers, then they …
Approximately 30 members of the Shining Path entered the community of Collpa. They gathered the villagers in the school, tied up and put four people on the floor. Two of them, Marcos Corpuna Leandro and Florencio García Ccorahua, were killed in front of the other villagers. Then they poured kerosene …
A group of hooded and armed hikers arrived in the community of Picutane. They gathered several villagers, locked them in a house and subjected them to torture. Then they selected some of the abductees, among them the community president, the lieutenant governor and a leader of the ronderos, and took …
On August 31, 1988, the Peruvian government terminated the negotiations with Shell for the exploitation of Camisea gas, since the term stipulated in the respective basic agreement signed at the beginning of the year had expired. This decision took place in a context of political and economic tension during the …
A group of 14 hikers entered the community of Yavina forcing the population to gather. The hikers beat and killed the President of the community José Aroni Alvis, cut his neck and smashed his head with a stone. They also assassinated 5 other people in the presence of the assembled …
In May 1987, the police post of Pisac, located in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, was attacked by the Shining Path PCP. One policeman died as a result of the attack. This attack was part of a series of subversive actions in the Cusco region during 1987, which also included …
During the first half of 1986, multiple murders of peasants and attacks on villages took place in the province of La Convención. On July 7, 1986, the governor of Huallan and his son were assassinated as part of a series of violent actions that included murders in Usnuyoc (April 28), …
On June 25, 1986, there was a terrorist attack on a train car on its way to Machu Picchu. The attack resulted in the death of 8 passengers and left forty people injured. This attack occurred in a context of intense political violence in Peru, during the same month as …
During the first half of 1986, in the province of La Convención there were multiple attacks and assassinations perpetrated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. On June 22, 1986, specific attacks were registered in Totora and Vilcabamba. These attacks were part of a series of violent actions that included the murder of …
In June 1986, the Shining Path PCP assassinated a councilman and a community leader in the district of Layo, province of Canas, department of Cusco. This took place in the context of the expansion of subversive violence into the highland provinces of the southern Andes. The assassinations were part of …
In the province of La Convención, 50 ronderos were killed in the Quimbiri area. This event occurred during the first half of 1986, a period in which there were multiple murders of peasants and attacks on villages in the province. The event is part of the chronology of violence in …
During the first half of 1986, multiple murders of peasants took place in the province of La Convención. On April 28 there were murders of peasants in Usnuyoc. This event was part of a series of attacks that also included murders in Totora and Vilcabamba on June 22, and of …
On May 13, 1985, authorities, heads of institutions and neighbors of Vilcabamba made a public statement about the presence of the PCP-SL in the area. In this declaration, they stated that for three years the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path had been making incursions in the district of …
In April 1985 there was an attack on the Urcos police post, located in the department of Cusco. This attack was part of a series of violent actions by the Shining Path PCP in the Cusco region during that period. The attack on Urcos occurred in the context of an …
In February 1985, a sergeant of the Republican Guard was murdered in Chiaraje, located in the highlands of Canas, department of Cusco. This assassination occurred in the context of the expansion of PCP-Sendero Luminoso violence into the southern Andes. The event occurred shortly after the first assault on a police …
On January 25, 1985, the first assault on a police post in the region took place in San Sebastian, near the city of Cusco. This attack marked the beginning of the violent actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against the forces of law and order in the department of Cusco. Two …
The Vilcabamba massacre occurred in the department of Cusco between 1985 and 1990. According to the CVR report, this event included sexual violence against women. The available information is limited and appears in a table of massacres that involved sexual violence during the internal armed conflict. It does not specify …
A Civil Guard patrol accompanied by Incahuasi ronderos carried out an operation in Lucmahuaycco. According to the police report, a guerrilla base was detected in the Cacaopampa sector at 5:30 am, capturing 18 elderly women, 2 minors and 7 men after an alleged armed confrontation. On the same day at …
In November 1984, approximately 40 subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the village of Lucmahuaycco, located in Cusco, in order to raise awareness among the population. At approximately 11 p.m. that same day, the forces of law and order together with the Mollebamba ronderos entered the village. As a result …
On May 17, 1984, the town of Pomabamba in Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, was attacked by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This attack was part of a series of subversive actions in the Apurimac River Valley during that period. Days earlier, on May 3, the town of Villa Virgen in the …
On October 1, 1982 there was an assault on the Civil Guard post located in Erapata, district of Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, Quillabamba. During this attack, one Civil Guard died. This event is part of the first armed actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Apurimac river valley area. …
On September 27, 1982, there was an assault on the Erapata police post, in the district of Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, department of Cuzco. According to the official police communiqué, 27 armed terrorist elements participated and destroyed the police post. In the attack, the guard Luis Chávez Ordóñez was …
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