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.
Three members of the PCP-SL assassinated Pascuala Rosado Olivera, popular leader and leader of Huaycán. The assassination of this community leader is part of the PCP-SL's strategy to eliminate social leaders who do not align themselves with their political project.
On March 31, 1992, the PCP-SL assassinated Zacarías Magallanes Mejía, a promoter belonging to the NGO IDEAS and one of the founders of the Huaycán human settlement. This murder marked the beginning of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against officials of non-governmental organizations. Magallanes Mejía was a community leader …
María Elena Moyano Delgado, leader of the Popular Federation of Women of Villa El Salvador and deputy mayor of the district, was assassinated on February 15, 1992. The assassination occurred in a context of intensified attacks by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against popular leaders and local authorities. Days earlier, on February …
The assassination of María Elena Moyano by the Shining Path represented an extreme situation due to the degree of cruelty of the SL and the fragility of the popular organizations that confronted it at the beginning of the 1990s. This assassination was emblematic of the violence against popular leaders.
Juana López was assassinated in Callao in August 1991, in the context of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso offensive against leaders of grassroots organizations. Her murder occurred in the midst of a wave of violence against women leaders that intensified in mid-1991. This crime was part of a series of murders and …
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