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 1987, in the region of Chungui, La Mar, Peru, there was a significant change in law enforcement strategy during the internal armed conflict. Military forces, together with civil defense patrols, began to capture villagers living in the jungle with the subversive group PCP-SL, offering them protection and avoiding summary …
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For five years, SL took over the village of Oronqoy and turned it into a "liberated zone," renaming it Puka Llacta. The entire community was held captive because, like others, …
Martha Páez has lived in exile in Sweden since 1989. Every year she returns to Peru to check on the progress of the judicial process concerning her son's murder and …
The CVR Report exposes the responsibilities of all parties with regard to what occurred between 1980 and 2000. So argues the author of this article, who in 1989 commanded Counter-Subversive …