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 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 …
Between the last hours of July 17 and the early morning of July 18, 1992, members of the Colina Detachment in coordination with members of the military base located at La Cantuta University broke into the university housing. In the presence of fifty witnesses, they kidnapped nine students and one …
Members of the Colina Detachment are responsible for the disappearance and subsequent execution of 9 students and a professor of the Enrique Guzmán y Valle University, known as La Cantuta. The victims were kidnapped at night on the university campus itself, which was guarded by a military detachment that had …
In the first minutes of the day, several individuals carrying military weapons, among them a woman, raided different homes in the human settlements. Approximately 18 members of the Colina Detachment, under the command of Major EP Santiago Martin Rivas, kidnapped nine peasants who were brutally beaten and forced to get …
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