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.
After suffering multiple PCP-SL attacks since 1988, including raids, looting, kidnappings of youths and assassinations of opponents, the Cutivireni Asháninkas who had not joined the subversive group fled to the bush, to a high part of the valley called Tzibokiroato. In September 1991, a group of 169 Cutivireni Asháninka were …
A group of Shining Path guerrillas assassinated two Polish Franciscan priests, Michel Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strzalkowski, in Pariacoto, Ancash. Shining Path claimed these murders as a blow to the old order, accusing the priests of being agents of imperialism in disguise. The priests worked in development projects with peasant communities. …
Polish Franciscan priests Zbigniew Strazalkowski (32 years old) and Michel Tomasek (34 years old) were taken by a column of the Shining Path from the parish house of Pariacoto after Mass. They were taken to the Pueblo Viejo, next to the cemetery, where they killed Father Miguel with a shot …
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