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 December 8, 1999, a subversive ambush took place in Villa Asháninka, district of Pichanaki, province of Satipo. The attack was perpetrated by subversive forces against Peruvian Army troops. As a result of the confrontation, 2 military personnel were killed and 10 wounded members of the Peruvian Army. This event …
Members of the PCP-SL ambush and assassinate four officers and a non-commissioned officer of the Peruvian Army in Satipo, Junín. This attack demonstrates that, despite the capture of the main Shining Path leaders, elements of the PCP-SL continued to operate and carry out violent actions against the forces of law …
The PCP-SL ambushed a private van in the Río Frío sector, killing 3 members of an alleged paramilitary group known as Alfa (which would have been made up of police, Peruvian army and repentant soldiers) and 3 other civilians, as well as a soldier. The van was destroyed by gunshots …
On April 4, 1995, a subversive column of the PCP-SL formed by approximately 20 people intercepted a bus of the "Sanchez Lopez" Company that covered the route Huamachuco-Trujillo, at the height of the "El Toro" lagoon. This place is significant because ten years earlier, in 1985, two officers of the …
On July 14, 1994, the MRTA carried out an ambush in La Merced, Chanchamayo province, Junin department. In this attack, two policemen were killed by the subversives. This event occurred in the context of the final phase of the internal armed conflict in the central jungle, when the MRTA still …
A military patrol is ambushed by members of the PCP-SL on a road leading to Pucallpa. Eight military personnel and six civilians are killed in the attack.
In July 1993, the Shining Path PCP succeeded in ambushing a military convoy in Yanajanca. The attack resulted in the death of five soldiers and left 15 wounded. This event occurred in a context of continuing violence in the Huallaga region, despite the capture of Abimael Guzman in September 1992. …
During an armed strike called by the PCP-SL in 1993, the subversives carried out one of their main military actions during the entire period of violence in the region. They ambushed a combined army and police caravan in the town of Los Frailones, in Huamachuco. The attack resulted in the …
On June 19, 1992, in Challhuamayo, a vehicle belonging to the Huancasancos Municipality was dynamited by the Shining Path PCP. Seventeen people perished in the attack, including civilian and military authorities. Among the victims were the provincial mayor, the sub-prefect, the provincial prosecutor, the justice of the peace, the manager …
In 1992, in the province of Oyón, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso ambushed a Peruvian Army detachment in the town of Paran. This attack represented a decisive blow against the Shining Path forces in the province of Oyón, marking a turning point in the internal armed conflict in this area. The confrontation …
Fr. Alessandro Dordi, an Italian parish priest from Santa, was the victim of an ambush when he was returning from celebrating Mass and Baptisms in Vinzos, accompanied by two catechists. The terrorists forced him to get out of the vehicle and shot him twice, once in the chest and once …
In April 1991, the PCP-SL ambushed a patrol of the III Region of the National Police in Quebrada Honda, Sayapullo district, Cajabamba province. The attack resulted in the death of 9 policemen. This event is framed in the period of highest intensity of violence in the region, when the PCP-SL …
In 1991, an armed confrontation occurred between the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the Peruvian Army at the Port of Mantaro, on the Huallaga River. The subversives ambushed the military forces as they attempted to cross the river to Mantaro, attacking them from positions on the hill. The attack resulted in significant …
The Peruvian Navy carried out an ambush against MRTA militants in the Boca del Pachitea area. This military action resulted in the death of several young men who were part of the Territorial Army of the Eastern Front of MRTA. The event occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations carried …
On December 17, 1989, the Peruvian Army ambushed a camp of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) near Puerto Bermudez, in the province of Oxapampa. This military action was part of the counter-subversive operations carried out by the Armed Forces against insurgent groups in different areas of the country. The …
In October 1989, the PCP-SL held up the Cajatambo Provincial Council bus in the town of Cami, on the way up to Cajatambo. After imprisoning all the passengers, the hikers proceeded to assassinate seven people: two civilians and five Republican Guardsmen. This attack was one of the most daring and …
On April 28, 1989, the MRTA attempted to take the city of Tarma in Junin, but were ambushed in Los Molinos. Many of their most valuable military cadres were killed in this confrontation. This event frustrated the MRTA's attempt to expand into Junín and represented a significant blow to their …
The PCP-SL ambushed a National Police troop car in the locality of Rajanya, district of Gorgor, province of Cajatambo. Six policemen were killed in this attack. This was one of the most daring attacks with the greatest repercussions in the area during that period. The ambush was part of the …
On November 24, 1988, journalists Hugo Bustíos Saavedra and Eduardo Yeny Rojas went to Erapata to investigate the murder of Primitiva Jorge Ayala and her son Guillermo Sulca Jorge by the Shining Path. They were ambushed by individuals in civilian clothes with white polo shirts who shot at them. Bustíos …
In September 1988, PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants ambushed an army patrol in the town of Chonta, in Laria, Huancavelica province. The attack resulted in the death of one officer and six soldiers, while fourteen other military personnel were wounded. This ambush was part of the 1988 Shining Path offensive, when the …
On July 25, 1988, Shining Path ambushed a military patrol at the Abancay Base, resulting in the death and wounding of several military personnel. The following day, several soldiers entered the community of Cruz Pata and detained the husband of a witness. They began to beat him and brought several …
In an ambush on a military patrol at the Rondos bridge, 13 soldiers were killed, generating a brutal response in which 20 presumed Shining Path members lost their lives, although according to family members, most of them were peasants who were not part of the subversion.
During July 1988, the Shining Path PCP carried out an ambush against a patrol of the Mobile Rural Patrol Unit (UMOPAR) in the Alto Huallaga area. Seven policemen and the prosecutor of Leoncio Prado were killed in the attack. This action, together with the murder of homosexuals and prostitutes in …
On May 13, 1988, a column of the Shining Path PCP ambushed an army convoy in the vicinity of the community of Cayara. In retaliation for this attack, a law enforcement patrol raided the community of Cayara, gathered the population in the plaza and killed 28 peasants in cold blood. …
On May 13, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso ambushed a military convoy in Erusco, near Cayara. Four members of the armed forces were killed in the attack: a captain, two corporals and a sergeant. This attack took place in the context of a new offensive by the PCP-SL in search of …
A PCP-SL column attacked a military convoy of the 'Mosca' Patrol belonging to the Counter-Subversive Base No 34 of Pampa Cangallo when it was returning from Huancasanccos. As a result, Infantry Captain José Arbulú Sime, Second Sergeant Ángel Vargas Tamara, Corporal Fabián Roldán Ortiz and Corporal Carlos Espinoza de la …
On February 18, 1988, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an ambush in the town of Lachocc, district of Acobambilla, province of Huancavelica. Nine soldiers and two civilians lost their lives in this attack. This action was part of the PCP-SL offensive in 1988, when the subversive organization had …
In November 1987, there was an episode that would take on legendary overtones in the Alto Huallaga conflict. PCP-SL forces ambushed at the entrance to the town of Paraíso. This event occurred in the context of confrontations between the PCP-SL and elements operating in the area, including a character wearing …
On April 19, 1987, a military convoy was ambushed on its way to the district of Huachocolpa in the province of Huancavelica. The attack was perpetrated by a column of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. As a result of this armed action, ten military personnel and four civilians were killed. This was …
On January 7, 1984, an Army patrol was ambushed by PCP-SL militants in the district of Pampas, province of Tayacaja. The attack resulted in the death of a soldier. This event occurred in the context of the first semester of 1984, when the combined forces of the Army and the …
On March 22, 1983, shortly after the installation of the Political Military Command in Huancavelica, an Army patrol ambushed a contingent of 25 subversives of the PCP-SL in Jala, district of Vilca. In the confrontation 24 Shining Path members were killed. This military action temporarily contained the expansion of subversive …
In 1965, the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) led by Luis de la Puente Uceda carried out an ambush against a police detachment in the Yahuarina ravine. This action was part of the second guerrilla moment in the southern Andes, which took place at the beginning of 1965. However, in October …
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