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.
Porfirio Suni Quispe, professor, peasant leader and representative of the United Left (IU) in the government of the José Carlos Mariátegui Region, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in Juliaca on May 14, 1991. Previously, on May 5, 1988, Suni had been arrested and tortured, falsely accused of participating in …
Angel Escobar Jurado, leader of the Federation of Peasant Communities and vice-president of the Huancavelica Human Rights Commission, disappeared on February 27, 1990. It is presumed that the perpetrators of the crime were related to law enforcement. The case occurred in a context of intense political violence in the Huancavelica …
Angel Escobar, leader of the Federation of Peasant Communities and vice-president of the Human Rights Commission of the department of Huancavelica, was kidnapped in the middle of the urban center of the city of Huancavelica in December 1989. The kidnapping occurred during the period of the 1989-1990 Shining Path offensive, …
On May 5, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an armed raid on the SAIS Picotani, located in Crucero, province of Sandia, department of Puno. During the attack, the subversives killed 6 civilian guards and the local justice of the peace. As a consequence of this attack, the teacher and …
On July 2, 1987, Constantino Saavedra, a member of the Peruvian Peasant Confederation and leader of the Departmental Agrarian Federation of Ayacucho, was arrested in the province of Huamanga. He was tortured by members of the Civil Guard and later released. His detention exemplifies how participation in marches, union protests …
Interior Minister Luis Pércovich Roca spoke in the Senate about the Oropesa case. This case referred to the detention of Jesús Oropesa Chonta, who had been arrested on July 27, 1984 by members of the Civil Guard on an alleged terrorism complaint in Puquio, Ayacucho. The disappearance of the peasant …
On July 27, 1984, members of the Civil Guard arrested Jesús Oropesa Chonta in Puquio, Ayacucho, on an alleged terrorism charge. Oropesa Chonta was a peasant leader in the area. His detention was followed by his forced disappearance, which caused a commotion in the country's political circles. The case was …
On July 27, 1984, members of the Civil Guard detained and assassinated in Puquio the peasant leader Jesús Oropesa, burning his corpse, which was not found until August 10. Oropesa was a leader of the national CNA and of the Uteq community, and proposed the maintenance of the Viseca hacienda …
Jesús Oropeza, peasant leader, was arrested by agents of the Civil Guard in the province of Puquio, department of Ayacucho. His detention was later denied by the authorities. This case is part of the human rights violations committed during the internal armed conflict, where social leaders were victims of arbitrary …
Julio Orozco Huamani, top leader of the Peasant Federation of the Apurimac River Valley (FECVRA), was assassinated at the Luisiana hacienda in August 1983. The Luisiana hacienda, which had belonged to former deputy Parodi of Acción Popular, had been converted into a main Marine Infantry base. This assassination occurred in …
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