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.
Focus group held with peasant leaders and former leaders of the Departmental Federation of Peasants of Puno as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work of compiling testimonies. In this meeting, issues related to the impact of the internal armed conflict on peasant organizations and local leadership were discussed. …
A column of the PCP-SL raids the district of Orurillo, where they burn the municipal building and several commercial establishments. Then they assassinate four peasant leaders of the Quisuni Cooperative, in Melgar, Puno. This attack is part of Sendero's campaign against peasant leaders.
On November 11, 1989, four peasant leaders from the annex of San Blas, district of Chambará, in Bajo Cunas, were kidnapped by presumed Shining Pathists and killed with shots to the head when they arrived at Chorrillos. This happened two days after the PCP-SL took over the town of Quero …
On November 11, 1989, in the annex of San Blas, district of Chambará, in Bajo Cunas, the subversives of the PCP-SL congregated the community in the State School for Minors. They held a 'popular trial' that concluded with the assassination of Vidal Paredes Ballasco, president of the community. This event …
On July 28, 1984, at four o'clock in the morning, Jesus Manuel Oropeza Chonta was taken in a green Pick Up truck from Puquio to the Andamarca Military Base by a Civil Guard patrol. The military chief refused to receive him and ordered his execution. On the way back, in …
On July 27, 1984, at approximately four o'clock in the afternoon, Jesús Manuel Oropeza Chonta, a 33-year-old peasant leader, Secretary of Peasant Communities of the National Agrarian Confederation and Vice-President of the Agrarian League 'María Parado de Bellido' of Lucanas, was in the main square of Puquio when two members …
The Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the president and lieutenant governor of the community of Huaychao in December 1982. This was part of a series of assassinations of peasant leaders in neighboring communities in the highlands of Huanta province. These assassinations were a determining factor that led the communities …
Alejandro Huamán, president of the Uchuraccay community, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in late November or early December 1982. The murder was in retaliation for having led the expulsion of Shining Path militants from the community in October 1982. He was also punished for having removed and burned a …
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