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.
Interview conducted with a 50 year-old villager and teacher from Accomarca, in the context of the CVR's research on the effects of the internal armed conflict in the communities of Ayacucho. The interview is part of the documentation work on the social consequences of political violence in the area, including …
In-depth interview with a former president of CODDEH (Committee for the Defense of Human Rights) who was also a university professor in the city of Puno. The interview was conducted in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's collection of testimonies on human rights violations during the internal armed …
On July 19, 1991, University of Ayacucho professor, engineer Francisco Sollier, was murdered along with his wife, son and nephew in Huamanga. The bodies of the four victims were found in a mine shaft on July 4, although the report mentions this date of discovery after the date of the …
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Professor Iván Pérez, professor at the Faculty of Economics of the San Antonio Abad National University of Cuzco. Perez was a militant of the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP Unidad) and was an advisor to the provincial mayor of Cuzco, Daniel Estrada. This assassination took place in …
On May 30, 1991, the leaders of SUTEP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), accompanied by three parliamentarians and other union members, marched across Lima's Plaza de Armas towards the Government Palace. The objective of the march was to request an audience with the wife of President …
Pablo Mamani Marchena and Germán Macedo, teachers members of SUTEP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), were assassinated on May 24, 1991 in the province of Pucará, Puno. These murders occurred in the context of the teachers' strike that began on May 8, 1991, whose repression resulted …
On May 17, 1991, seven teachers were arrested by the Peruvian Army in the province of Ayacucho. This arrest occurred in the context of the teachers' strike that began on May 8, 1991, whose repression resulted in the temporary arrest of 2,000 teachers, twenty disappearances and 14 murders. The teachers …
Porfirio Suni was a teacher member of the Single Union of Education Workers of Peru (SUTEP) murdered in the province of Pucará, Puno, on May 13, 1991. His death occurred in the context of the repression of the teachers' strike that began on May 8, 1991. This strike resulted in …
The World Confederation of Organizations of Professional Teachers (CMOPE) alleges a series of murders, arrests and acts of violence against teachers who were members of the Single Union of Education Workers of Peru (SUTEP) since the beginning of the strike on May 8, 1991. The repression of this strike resulted …
In May 1991, teachers working in the Satipo jungle were captured by the PCP-SL. This event occurred in the context of the expansion of Shining Path control in the province of Satipo, particularly in the Ene River basin and part of the Tambo River basin. By the end of 1991, …
Hugo Luna Ballón, lawyer, former legal advisor and professor at the San Cristóbal de Huamanga National University (UNSCH), was murdered on November 27, 1990 in the city of Huamanga. The crime was perpetrated by paramilitary groups or law enforcement agents in civilian clothes. This assassination took place in the context …
Professor Roberto Aguirre Palomino was assassinated. The MRTA claimed responsibility for this assassination as a response to the death of Professor Luis Aguilar. On October 19, the MRTA posted on the walls of the university a 'black list' with 44 names of professors and students identified as Shining Path members, …
Víctor Raúl Lavado Olivera, a professor at the School of Economics, who lived in the city of Jauja, was arrested along with his brother at his home by a group of hooded soldiers. His whereabouts were never heard of again. In his syllabus of Historical Materialism he included fundamental documents …
Godofredo Pablo Huamalí Meza was a teacher at the "General Córdova" National School in the district of Santa Ana de Tusi, province of Daniel Alcides Carrión. He was murdered in the city of Cerro de Pasco in 1990, where he was passing through. His death was part of the "annihilation" …
On July 18, 1989, Professor Luis Aguilar Romaní was mortally wounded by alleged Shining Path supporters in the teachers' lounge of the Faculty of Pedagogy of the National University of Central Peru (UNCP). This attack occurred in the context of a bloody struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA at …
Luis Aguilar Romaní, a professor at the Pedagogy Faculty, who had explicit sympathies with the MRTA, was attacked by three elements who found him in the office of Dean Jaime Cerrón Palomino. They shot him several times, leaving him agonizing, and he died days later. The University Council treated the …
Alejandro Tutaya, a professor at the Pedagogical Institute of Huancavelica, was murdered on July 12, 1989. The crime was perpetrated by alleged paramilitaries in the context of the 1989-1990 Shining Path offensive in the province of Huancavelica. This murder occurred during a period of intense violence in the city of …
On May 29, 1989, lawyer Marcial Capeletti was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso while giving his course at the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University. Capeletti was one of the leaders of the then ruling Peruvian Aprista Party (APRA). This assassination took place in the context of an intensification of …
On May 29, 1989, professor Marcelo Capeletti was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP while giving classes at the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University. Capeletti was an APRA militant and former president of the Ayacucho Development Corporation. This assassination took place in a context of intense violence in the …
On May 17, 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated engineer Abelardo Ludeña Luque, who was a militant of Izquierda Unida (IU) and a professor at the National University of Engineering (UNI). This selective assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy of eliminating political and social leaders who opposed their revolutionary project. …
Luis Alberto Aguilar Cajahuamán was a professor, APRA militant and professor at the Daniel Alcides Carrión National University. He had been elected Deputy in the elections of April 14, 1985. In May 1985 he was assassinated by a detachment of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. His assassination precipitated the decision of the …
In 1975, Abimael Guzmán was definitively dismissed as a professor in the Faculty of Education of the UNSCH. This faculty, which had been used in a partisan manner by Guzmán's group, began to be reorganized, which greatly weakened the presence of the PCP-SL inside the UNSCH. In the following years …
In 1962 Abimael Guzmán joined the UNSCH as a teacher. He soon became one of the main promoters of the political work of the FER and the Communist Party in the university and the region. In 1964 Guzmán was appointed Director of the Basic Cycle (General Studies) and later became …
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