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 November 1989, the PCP-SL arrived in the native Shipibo-Conibo community of Junin Pablo, coming from the hamlet of Panuco. The Shining Path's objective was to organize the population and impose their laws, asking them how their authorities behaved and explaining the norms they wanted to implement: no polygamy, no …
Once settled and with control of the drug business in Padre Abad, PCP-SL continued its political and military expansion into the province of Coronel Portillo, entering the Ucayali River, mainly the districts of Masisea and Iparia, in mid-1989. PCP-SL carried out one of its first incursions into the town of …
PCP-SL made one of its first incursions into the town of Iparia in mid-1989, as part of its expansion into the province of Coronel Portillo after consolidating in Padre Abad. The Main Force of the Upper Huallaga Regional Committee faced limitations in operating in this area due to the long …
In October 1988, a subversive column of the Shining Path PCP clashed with the police in the province of Condesuyos, on the border of the department of Arequipa with Cusco. This confrontation took place in the context of the expansion of the southern regional committee of the Shining Path PCP, …
In 1985, in the context of the Shining Path's expansion into the highland provinces north of Lima, the first assassination of an authority was recorded in Cajatambo. The victim was the deputy mayor of Gorgor. This event took place when the presence of the Shining Path PCP, which had been …
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