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.
Former National Intelligence Service (SIN) agent Mesmer Carles Talledo made serious allegations in the media regarding the Colina Group and the Intelligence Service. Carles Talledo blamed the Colina Group for the murder of union leader Pedro Huilca. Fernando Olivera proposed an investigative commission but the majority disqualified the testimony and …
The television program Contrapunto presented the testimony of former SIE agent Leonor La Rosa about torture she allegedly received by members of the SIE for having revealed information about the 'Bermuda', 'El Pino' and 'Narval' Plan. This testimony generated multiple motions in Congress to investigate the alleged facts.
On November 26, 1996, retired General Rodolfo Robles was kidnapped and tried by the Supreme Council of Military Justice. Days before he had recognized Luis Sauñi as a member of the Colina Group on the program La Clave and made strong accusations against the secret operations of the SIN. His …
Carmen Rosa Pariona Yachi, 23 years old, filed a formal complaint before the Mixed Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Tocache on May 30, 1994. The complaint is framed in the context of sexual violence during the internal armed conflict in the Alto Huallaga area. The CVR report mentions this case as …
On April 19, 1994, the National Human Rights Coordinating Committee (CNDDHH) issued its first public communiqué entitled 'Que no vuelva el horror' (Let the horror not return) on Operation Aries. In this communiqué, the CNDDHH expressed its concern that the military operation continued without taking into account the reports of …
Carmen Pariona was raped by military personnel at a military base in the Huanuco area. The case was reported to the Special Prosecutor's Office for Human Rights in Huánuco. When Mrs. Amalia Tolentino was intercepted by a military patrol on April 8, 1993 while she was traveling from Puerto de …
On May 6, 1993, General EP (r) Rodolfo Robles Espinoza, third in line in the Peruvian Army, in a public letter accused Army commanders and intelligence advisor Vladimiro Montesinos Torres of maintaining an operational command responsible for crimes against humanity, among them those of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta. In …
On May 6, 1993, General EP Rodolfo Robles Espinoza made public a letter accusing Army commanders of maintaining an operational command responsible for the Barrios Altos massacre and other crimes. This allegation backed up Congressman Henry Pease Garcia's earlier revelations about the existence of a DINTE Special Operations Team. The …
Viviano Hilario Mancha, father and grandfather of the disappeared, found the half-buried body of his grandson Héctor Hilario at the entrance of the 'Misteriosa' mine, along with other bodies that he could not recognize. He reported the discovery the next day to the Huancavelica Provincial Prosecutor's Office and to the …
On February 17, 1990, the Confederation of Amazonian Nationalities of Peru (CONAP) published a communiqué denouncing the violence in the central jungle. This communiqué followed the massacre of fifteen ronderos in the community of Dos de Mayo and in a context of intolerable conditions of insecurity in the region. CONAP …
Antenógenes Haro Cruz expanded his complaint, pointing to the President of CORDE Ancash, the Mayor of the Provincial Council of Huaraz and some members of the Civil Guard as the perpetrators of the kidnapping of his brother and César Mautino. At the same time, Pía Sabina Camones de Mautino, César …
The lawyer Antenógenes Haro Cruz filed a formal complaint before the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Huaraz for the kidnapping and attempted murder of his brother Pedro Eduardo Haro Cruz and César Augusto Mautino Camones. The complaint details the facts that occurred on April 29 when both young men were intercepted …
As a result of extrajudicial killings, rapacious actions and acts of pillage committed by members of the army, villagers from Santa Carmen approached the Andahuaylas barracks in 1986 to denounce these abuses. Testimonies indicate that in the raids carried out by the Peruvian Army and the Mollebamba civil defense, every …
Juana Lidia Argumedo, sister of Juan Argumedo (guide of the journalists murdered in Uchuraccay in 1983), was arrested on September 15, 1984. After the Uchuraccay tragedy, Juana denounced the responsibility of the armed forces in the events. As a result of these denunciations, she was detained by the forces of …
General EP Adrián Huamán Centeno and the senior dean prosecutor of Ayacucho, Jorge Zegarra Delgado, issued a joint communiqué to all those who believe their rights have been violated or infringed upon, to make their complaints known to the public. The purpose of the communiqué was to take the necessary …
In 1984, the then mayor of Huamanga Leonor Zamora Concha publicly blamed the Marines, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, for the death of 50 Ayacucho residents whose bodies were found in a mass grave in the area of Pucayacu. This public denunciation was one of the actions that …
General EP Clemente Noel Moral, head of the Political Military Command of Ayacucho, filed a complaint before the ad hoc prosecutor for terrorism Ricardo Pequeño Valdivia against several university leaders and authorities. Among those accused were Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, Julio César Mezzich, former UNSCH rectors Efraín Morote Best and Enrique …
General EP Clemente Noel Moral, head of the Political Military Command of Ayacucho, filed a complaint before the ad hoc prosecutor for terrorism Ricardo Pequeño Valdivia against several university leaders and authorities. Among those accused were Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, Julio César Mezzich, former UNSCH rectors Efraín Morote Best and Enrique …
UDP congressman Javier Diez Canseco Cisneros filed a formal complaint before the Public Prosecutor's Office against General EP Clemente Noel Moral, who was head of the Political Military Command of Ayacucho. The accusation was for different crimes committed during his time in command of the anti-subversive operations in the emergency …
On April 26, 1981, Edmundo Cox Beuzeville was denounced in the city of Sicuani as responsible for 27 attacks. This denunciation took place in the context of the first years of the internal armed conflict, when the PCP-Sendero Luminoso began its actions in the department of Cuzco. On May 26 …
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