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 Lambayeque, 17 members of the Frente de Defensa de los Bosques de San Ignacio are victims of torture by the Peruvian National Police. This case represents the repression against environmental and community defense organizations.
Indefinite strike called and led by the Huanuco Defense Front during June 1988. The strike was motivated by disagreements over the regionalization project that the government was implementing at that time. The protest was violently repressed by the forces of law and order. A UNMSM university student was killed by …
In May 1987, the first Founding Congress of the Frente de Defensa de los Intereses del Pueblo de San Martín (FEDIP-SM) was held, with a majority of the provincial bases in attendance. This congress formalized the creation of an organization that would become the main leadership body in the region, …
The Carabayllo Defense Front began to function in 1987 as an organization that provided political education to the population. In this front there were people linked to both the PCP-SL and the MRTA, who distributed flyers and gave speeches. The Defense Front was later dismantled in the 1990s, at the …
In 1981, the MIR-EM (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria - El Militante) managed to regain the leadership of the Defense Front of the province of Coronel Portillo, after having lost it in 1980 to engineer Castro Vera of the College of Engineers. This recovery of control of the Defense Front was …
In 1980, the MIR-EM (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria - El Militante) lost the leadership of the Defense Front of the province of Coronel Portillo. The engineer Castro Vera, from the College of Engineers, won the leadership of this organization. This loss represented a significant setback for the MIR-EM, which had …
In 1966 the central government tried to cut the budget of the UNSCH. This fact generated the rejection not only of the university community but also of the Ayacucho people as a whole. Rector Efrain Morote considered it necessary for the people of Ayacucho to defend their University, obtaining the …
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