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 the night of May 21, 1989, a column of the Shining Path PCP destroyed the facilities of the Waqrani Rural Education Institute (IER), located on the outskirts of Ayaviri. This attack was part of a series of violent actions carried out by the PCP-SL in Puno during May 1989. …
On February 2, 1989, PCP-SL militants took over the Colpa farm in Junin. During this raid, the hikers knifed to death 157 sheep and 6 cattle. In addition, they wounded another 10 animals and took 8 cattle. This attack was part of the systematic strategy of the PCP-SL to destroy …
In 1989, an armed group of Shining Path guerrillas destroyed the Huagal cheese plant in San Marcos province. As part of the PCP-SL's strategy of liquidating associative enterprises, the attackers distributed the cattle and land among the members and set fire to the machinery. This attack was part of a …
At the beginning of 1989, the PCP-SL attacked the Laive Production Unit, destroying the milk processing machinery. The neighboring communities of Palmayoc, Palaco, Llamapsillón and Chongos Altos, spurred on by the Shining Path, ended up looting and distributing goods from these production units. All the facilities of the LAIVE Sub-Unit …
In 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso destroyed the Waqrani Rural Education Institute (IER), located in the department of Puno. This institute belonged to the Catholic Church and was supported by the Unified Mariateguist Party (PUM). The destruction of IER Waqrani took place in the context of the rearticulation of a new …
In August 1988, the PCP-SL made a violent incursion into the district capital of San Juan de Jarpa, assassinating Governor Alejandro Molina Alvarado. During the same raid, the Shining Pathists dynamited and set fire to several public and private premises, including the Municipality, the Promotion and Training Center (PROCAD), and …
In mid-1988, the PCP-SL destroyed the police posts that the police had established in Chongos Alto and Yanacancha to guard the Canipaco valley area. These police posts represented the presence of the State in the region, where land conflicts were developing between communities and SAIS Cahuide. The army had been …
The capital of the province of Padre Abad, Aguaytia, was taken over by the Shining Path PCP in one of its first acts in the Ucayali region in June 1987. During the raid, the municipal building was burned with all its belongings, as well as the Agrarian Bank's archives and …
At the end of 1987, the PCP-SL began systematic attacks against the Laive Unit of the SAIS Cahuide, destroying the furniture and slaughtering an undetermined number of cattle. These attacks were part of the Shining Path's strategy to destroy the Agrarian Societies of Social Interest in the region. The Shining …
On January 14, 1982, the PCP-SL raided the Chingol Cooperative, located in Chuquibamba, Cachachi district, Cajabamba province. During this raid, the Shining Pathists destroyed the cooperative's infrastructure. This event was part of the PCP-SL's initial strategy in the region to liquidate the associative enterprises created by the Agrarian Reform, taking …
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