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.
In 1991, a confrontation took place at Mantaro Port between the Peruvian Army and the Shining Path insurgent group. During this confrontation, members of the army were attacked and killed by the Shining Path, who waited on the hill to ambush the military forces. This event is part of a …
In July 1984, a mass murder took place in Pucayacu, Ayna, where nearly 80 people were killed by members of the Peruvian Army. This event is part of a series of human rights violations that occurred during the internal conflict in Peru, where both law enforcement and insurgent groups committed …
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Judges established that the murder of an elderly woman and the enforced disappearance of a minor in Ayacucho in 1984 was part of a systematic practice of the Peruvian Army, …
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its judgment on the merits in the case of Santa Bárbara vs. Peru. It condemned the State for the violation of the rights …
In the Los Cabitos barracks in Ayacucho, 59 complete skeletons were found, along with bones corresponding to more than one hundred bodies out of a much larger total number of …
According to the CVR report, between 1983 and 1994, the years of greatest violence in the district of Chungui, 1,384 civilians were killed by Sendero Luminoso, ronderos, and security forces. …
As Grupo Memoria, we made the decision to open a space for dialogue with one of the most important actors during the internal armed conflict: the Peruvian Army. While "En …
Families of victims of Sendero Luminoso and the Army jointly receive exhumed remains in Ayacucho, the epicenter of the bloody war between the State and the terrorists in the 1980s. …
On December 13, 1984, in the locality of Putis – San José de Secce, the largest massacre recorded during the period of political violence was perpetrated: 123 people were killed …
The Peruvian prosecutor's office reported on Friday that the eight bodies exhumed from a mass grave in Huancavelica show signs that the victims were executed, presumably during the conflict that …
The Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación established that on August 14, 1985, an Army patrol belonging to the "Lince" company of Huamanga, under the command …
1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CASE. 2. PROCEDURAL DESCRIPTION. 3. OBSERVATION OF THE NEW ORAL TRIAL.
This book recounts a reality that comes from within the Army, a branch of the Armed Forces of Peru, whose members faced the challenge of restoring order and securing peace. …
Thesis submitted for the degree of bachelor in history. Index: Introduction; Chapter I. Latin America and its revolutionary struggles; Chapter II. Genesis of a guerrilla: society and politics in Peru …
The bodies were not difficult to locate, as they lay just below the surface. But the peasants of the southern Peruvian community of Putis had to persevere for 24 years …
This essay addresses the social democratization of the Peruvian army officer corps. I argue that unlike the other military institutions in the country, the army is the military corporation that …
This book recounts events involving Peruvian military personnel and subversives between 1982 and 1993. It is written from their perspective and not from that of their victims. Therefore, it does …
There are at least 24 civilian killings in the Alto Huallaga valley that have been attributed to the Army by human rights NGOs and journalists during an operation that began …
Regarding the structure of the report that the Commission has wished to present, it first sets out a frame of reference highlighting the main aspects of the subversive phenomenon that …
A book with numerous images and maps, produced by the Ejército del Perú, which denounces the men who were involved in the guerrilla movement and their circle of lawyers, union …
