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.
On April 22, 1997 at 3:27 p.m., Operation Chavin de Huantar was launched to rescue 71 hostages from the Japanese ambassador's residence. The operation was led by EP Colonel José Williams Zapata with 143 commandos. Explosives were detonated under the room where the ambassadors were playing soccer. Magistrate Carlos Giusti …
Criminal Prosecutor Ana Magallanes filed a criminal complaint and the Sixteenth Criminal Court of Lima, headed by Judge Antonia Saquicuray, opened an investigation against General Julio Salazar Monroe, Major Santiago Martin Rivas, and non-commissioned officers Wilson Carvajal García, Juan Sosa Saavedra and Hugo Coral Goycochea for the extrajudicial executions in …
Since April 5, 1994, Operation Aries was implemented with aerial bombardments using helicopter gunships and rocket fighter planes. The Armed Forces prepared special companies trained with Israeli techniques. The operation caused indiscriminate death of villagers. In Puerto Moyuna, on April 8, the military tortured and executed Jesús Vera Virgilio and …
In April 1994, the Army entered the town of Moyuna. During this military incursion, the women of this locality were victims of sexual violence, torture and executions. This event was part of a pattern of behavior identified by the CVR in which members of the Army committed rape against women …
On March 29, 1994 in Cayumba Chico, army troops arbitrarily executed the father, mother and six-year-old sister of a female witness. The massacre included sexual violence against the women prior to the executions. According to the documented pattern, the military raped the women prior to executing them. This event is …
Between March 29 and 31, 1994, during Operation Paraíso, a military patrol extrajudicially executed at least 6 people in Cayumba Chico. The operation was organized by Colonel EP José Orihuela Lavado of the Counter-Subversive Battalion No. 313. The patrol was commanded by Captain EP Roberto Villar Chamorro. The bodies were …
Between May 6 and 9, 1992, the National Police and the Army carried out the operation Mudanza 1 to transfer inmates from Pavilion 1-A. The militarized intervention resulted in the extrajudicial execution of 42 inmates and hundreds of wounded. The forces of order used explosives, gases, long-range rifles and grenades. …
On March 19, 1992, about thirty villagers fleeing from the Alto Cuchara hamlet because of the bombings encountered a military patrol near Pozo Rico. The military separated the women and children and executed them with gunfire, first the men, then the women and finally the children. After a month, Benito …
On March 10, 1992, a commando patrol of the Peruvian Army from Lima entered the hamlet of Bambú and killed everyone working in the harvest. Antonio Bazán Isminio had hired twelve people to help him harvest cocoa and bananas. The murders were committed in retaliation for the deaths of some …
A transfer of prisoners in the Shining Path wards of the Canto Grande prison initiated on March 9, 1992, during which 35 inmates accused of terrorism were killed. Being a police operation, it included special undercover forces that selectively eliminated members of the Shining Path Central Committee throughout the operation. …
In March 1992, Army troops from the Counter-Subversive Base No. 313, reinforced by the Command Battalion No. 19, carried out Operation Spoon. Approximately 900 men participated. The objective was to teach the villagers a lesson so that they would not support the Shining Path. They bombed the area with helicopter …
In 1992, violence reached its highest peak in central Peru. Dynamite bombings, blackouts, sabotage, assassinations, disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions and guerrilla fighting became daily occurrences. Fear and anxiety gripped the population throughout the region. Among the most serious events of that year were the Ulcumayo massacre on February 8, …
On November 3, 1991, the Colina detachment executed fifteen people in Barrios Altos, Lima. The operation was carried out by heavily armed Peruvian army personnel wearing ski masks. The victims were executed indiscriminately with firearms with silencers, regardless of sex or age. The indiscriminate fire killed 11 adult males, 3 …
On November 3, 1991, the Colina Group murdered 16 people who were participating in a pollada in Barrios Altos, leaving four others seriously wounded. This was the first event for which the Colina Group became known to the public. The Colina Group was a death squad that operated as part …
In June 1991, the disappearance of 35 students from the Universidad Nacional del Centro was reported. This event occurred in the context of an escalation of violence against the university community, where students allegedly linked to the Shining Path PCP were subjected to disappearances and extrajudicial executions perpetrated by paramilitaries. …
In January 1991, the Army raided the town of San Pedro de Cachi, in Ayacucho. As a result of this military operation, 18 bodies were found. This massacre took place in the context of the Army's counter-subversive operations in rural areas of Ayacucho, where they were confronting the Shining Path …
In January 1991, members of the Peruvian Army (EP) killed 18 people in the town of San Pedro de Cachi, district of Santiago de Pischa. This event was part of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the region during the 1988-1991 period. The event occurred in a context …
During the massacre in the Santa Ana community, military personnel executed three men from the community. Subsequently, according to the information gathered, the perpetrators took the young women to the local church. In the church, the women were victims of rape by the military. This event is part of the …
In May 1990, the Army razed the town of Yahuar Machay in the district of Ayahuanco, province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho. The military incursion resulted in the murder of 47 people. This event occurred in the context of clashes between the Shining Path PCP and the peasant patrols in …
In May 1990, the town of Yahuarmachay, Ayahuanco district, was razed to the ground. Members of the Peruvian Army perpetrated a massacre in which 47 people were killed. This event took place during the period of intensification of the internal armed conflict between 1988-1991, when there was a significant increase …
Shining Path carried out an incursion in Chiquián, capital of the province of Bolognesi. After this raid, three people were arrested: Víctor Moreno Cotrina, Esaú Daniel Moreno Cotrina (father of a student) and a teacher from the school. According to the complaint, the police authorities of Huaraz did not admit …
Between March and April 1990, the Peruvian Navy carried out counter-subversive operations on the Ucayali River in order to prevent armed actions by the PCP-SL during the electoral process. During 1989 and 1990, the Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled on the banks of the …
A combat between units of the Peruvian Army and an armed column of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement took place in the locality of Los Molinos, near Jauja. The Peruvian Army reported 6 fatalities and 19 wounded, while the subversive side reported 63 fatalities and no wounded or prisoners. Civilians …
In June 1989, approximately 300 people died in the village of Venenillo as a result of a confrontation between subversive elements and military personnel. It was later reported that many of the dead were civilians, including children. According to the testimony of a former military officer, General Alberto Arciniega Huby …
In April 1989, approximately 80 members of the MRTA detachment were moving towards the Junin highlands with the intention of taking Tarma, when they encountered Army forces in the district of Molinos, Jauja province, and engaged in combat. The confrontation resulted in the death of 62 people identified as MRTA …
In 1989, the systematic use of the practice of forced disappearance by Peruvian State agents intensified as part of their counter-subversive strategy. This practice involved extracting a specific person from his or her context, removing him or her from the public eye and from the legal mechanisms of individual protection, …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Peruvian Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. They used helicopter gunships to bomb different villages, considering them, a priori, as 'red zones'. Pucallpa's aguajales became the walking cemeteries of dozens …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Peruvian Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. They used helicopter gunships to bomb different villages, considering them, a priori, as 'red zones'. Pucallpa's aguajales became the walking cemeteries of dozens …
The Pampa Coris massacre was perpetrated on June 24, 1988 by members of the Peruvian Army and ronderos. During this military incursion, there was a pattern of behavior involving the rape of women prior to execution. The commandos executed the men first to prevent them from screaming or rebelling against …
Inhabitants of the Oronqoy and Chillihua communities who had taken refuge in Chaupimayo were killed by soldiers from the Pallqas base. The event occurred between October and November 1986, in the context of counter-subversive operations in the Chungui area. The victims were refugees who had fled their communities due to …
On June 18 and 19, 1986 there were simultaneous riots organized by the PCP-SL in three prisons in Lima and Callao. Law enforcement forces intervened with extreme violence resulting in the death of 244 inmates executed: 118 in El Frontón, 124 in Lurigancho and 2 in Santa Bárbara. The riots …
On June 18, 1986, there was a Shining Path riot in the Lurigancho, El Frontón and Santa Bárbara prisons with hostage taking. The Council of Ministers decided to reestablish order with maximum energy, entrusting the task to the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. The repression resulted in the death …
On August 14, 1985, military personnel from the Lince 6 and Lince 7 patrols, under the command of Sub-Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado Hurtado, executed the "Operational Plan Huancayoc". The military gathered the inhabitants of Lloqllapampa in the house of Alejandro Gamboa de la Cruz and separated men, women and children into …
On August 4, 1985, the military murdered and buried seven civilians in mass graves in Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. These people had previously been detained in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, where members of the Navy were stationed. Around August 16, approximately fifty people detained in that place were …
On July 7, 1985, mass graves were found in the community of Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. Around August 16, 1984, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of Pucayacu. On August 22, 1984, …
On July 4, 1985, arbitrary executions took place in the Castropampa barracks, in the department of Ayacucho. The events occurred in the context of human rights violations that included sexual violence. According to testimony gathered by the CVR, before the executions, the commandos first executed the men to prevent them …
The prison massacres occurred in 1985, 1986 and 1992, remaining in the terrible tally of penitentiary history. Approximately 350 inmates were killed, most of them as a result of extrajudicial executions. The State, unable to apply a correct and efficient anti-subversive strategy in the prisons, opted on these occasions for …
On December 27, 1984, a Civil Defense Committee in the Ayacucho highlands unanimously approved in assembly that those who had collaborated with the terrorists should be investigated and that the guilty parties would be annihilated by the Central authorities. That this appears in their minute book reveals that by 1984 …
In November 1984, approximately 40 subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the village of Lucmahuaycco, located in Cusco, in order to raise awareness among the population. At approximately 11 p.m. that same day, the forces of law and order together with the Mollebamba ronderos entered the village. As a result …
In November 1984, law enforcement forces set fire to the village of Oronqoy and killed 29 community members accused of being subversives. This event was part of a series of violent raids carried out by the Peruvian Army and the civilian defenses of Mollebamba in the Oreja de Perro area. …
On September 15, 1984, soldiers from the Putis Base entered the annex of the same name in Ayacucho. The next day they continued with the massacre in the annex. Most of the women were raped before being killed. One young woman was saved from this massacre and was not killed …
On August 16, 1984, the Armed Forces perpetrated a massacre in Huamanquiquia, Ayacucho. During the attack 7 people died: 5 men and 2 women. Six detainees managed to escape and later testified about the events. The survivors reported that the two women were raped before being executed. This event is …
On August 23, 1984, 49 corpses were discovered buried in graves in Pucayacu, a few kilometers north of the city of Huanta, in territory belonging to the province of Acobamba, Huancavelica. All the victims were citizens who had been previously detained in the Huanta Stadium by the Marine Infantry. The …
On July 15, 1984, the Peruvian Army perpetrated a massacre in Muyurina, Ayacucho. During this event, six men were executed. According to surviving witnesses, the women were victims of rape before or during the massacre. This event forms part of the pattern documented by the CVR where the armed forces …
In April 1984, members of the Peruvian Army murdered 32 inhabitants of Huarapite, a town in the district of Chiara in the province of Huamanga. This event occurred in the context of the indiscriminate repression carried out by the Armed Forces in the area during 1984, a year that registered …
In February 1984, members of the Marine Infantry raided the town of Carhuac, district of Santillana, province of Huanta. During this military operation, the villagers of the community were murdered. This event is part of the counter-subversive strategy implemented by the Armed Forces in the area, characterized by indiscriminate actions …
In 1984, following a Shining Path ambush against a patrol of Marines on the road between San José de Secce and Juncos, indiscriminate repression was unleashed against the population. When a wounded terrorist shot and killed several Marines with an instalaza, excesses took place in the town and nearby villages. …
In September 1983, police and Navy troops extrajudicially executed 13 community members from San Pedro de Pampay, in the district of Luricocha, province of Huanta. This event occurred in the context of the entry of the Armed Forces into the region in January 1983 and the installation of the political-military …
In September 1983, Navy troops committed multiple assassinations in several towns and villages in the district of Sivia, including Boca Mantaro, La Unión, Pacífico, Canayre Alta, Canayre Baja, Villa Virgen and Portillo. This military repression had the opposite of the expected effects, generating greater support for the PCP-SL among the …
On August 19, 1983, the Peruvian Army perpetrated a massacre in Tsiriari, department of Junin. Eighty fatalities were recorded, of which 79 were unidentified and one was identified as a woman. The remains found showed evidence of sexual violence prior to the murder. One of the victims showed clear signs …
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