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.
During 2000, 8 law enforcement fatalities were recorded as a result of the internal armed conflict, representing 0.5% of the total number of law enforcement casualties during the entire period under investigation. This figure includes 6 members of the Armed Forces and 2 members of the Police Forces. The year …
In 1995 there was a significant increase in law enforcement casualties in the upper Huallaga area. According to information provided by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior to the CVR, 132 law enforcement personnel died that year (104 from the Army and 28 …
During 1995, 132 law enforcement fatalities were recorded in the internal armed conflict, representing 7.9% of the total number of law enforcement casualties during the entire period. Of these casualties, 104 corresponded to the Armed Forces and 28 to the Police Forces. A new and brief increase in casualties was …
During 1994, Peruvian law enforcement suffered 67 fatal casualties in the internal armed conflict, representing 4.0% of the total number of law enforcement casualties during the entire period investigated. Of these casualties, 52 corresponded to the Armed Forces and 15 to the Police Forces. This year is in the period …
On March 8, 1992, the PCP-SL attacked the police post of Angasmarca in the province of Santiago de Chuco. The attack resulted in the death of five policemen. This event was part of the Shining Path's strategy of attacking rural police posts with few personnel and limited weapons. Angasmarca had …
A woman was arrested on February 26, 1992 in the district of Villa El Salvador by personnel from the 28 de Julio police station. During her detention she was the victim of sexual violence. The text mentions that the complainant was detained for the second time at her home in …
A woman was arrested by personnel from the 28th of July Police Station in 1992. The detention occurred in the district of Villa El Salvador, province and department of Lima. This case is part of a documented pattern of sexual violence against women detained by police forces during the internal …
In 1992 there was an attack against a police detachment in the provinces of Acobamba or Angaraes, in the department of Huancavelica. The attack resulted in the death of 4 policemen. This event occurred in the context of the end of violence in the area, shortly before the capture of …
On April 3, 1991, the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) attacked the Ollantaytambo police post in the province of Urubamba, department of Cuzco. This attack marked the emergence of the MRTA in the department of Cuzco. As a result of the attack, three policemen were killed. This event took place …
Two community members from Santo Tomás, province of Chumbivilcas, Cuzco, were extrajudicially executed by police officers guarding the community. The victims were identified as Marcelino Valencia and Zacarías Pasca. The event occurred in the context of the military and police presence in rural areas during the internal armed conflict. The …
In 1990, a third confrontation took place in Aynaca, Ambar district, Huaura province, between police forces and subversive elements of the PCP-SL. The confrontation resulted in a total of 5 deaths. According to the report, some of the dead appeared to be important military cadres of the PCP-SL. This confrontation …
On March 27, 1989, the PCP-SL carried out an attack on the Uchiza police post that resulted in its complete destruction. The attack was supported by the people of Uchiza in combination with drug traffickers in the area. As a result of the attack, 10 policemen were killed. This event …
Aider De la Cruz was executed by police forces in Raján, Ocros, accused of belonging to the ranks of the PCP-SL. This event occurred in the context of the police response against the Shining Path offensive that had spread between 1989 and 1990 to various localities. The execution was part …
In 1989, in San José de Manzanares, Huacho, the police arrested and disappeared Antonio Osores De la Cruz, suspected of terrorism. This occurred in the context of the extension of the actions of the main forces of the PCP-SL to localities on the coast, which generated a response from the …
In 1989, police forces arrested Jorge Napoleón, Goñe León López and Vibiana López Collazos in Aynaca-Ámbar, accused of terrorism. Subsequently, the three detainees were killed by the police. This event occurred in the context of the police response to the extension of the actions of the main PCP-SL forces to …
In the context of the police response to the Shining Path offensive in the region, police forces apprehended and disappeared Mamerta Patricio and Norma Higinio Requena in Raján, Ocros, at different times during 1989. These disappearances were part of a broader pattern of arbitrary detentions and forced disappearances carried out …
On December 7, 1988, Law 24949 was enacted creating the National Police of Peru (PNP). This law unified the country's existing police forces under a single institution. The creation of the PNP took place in a context of intensification of the counter-subversive struggle and reorganization of law enforcement. This institutional …
On May 5, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an armed raid on the SAIS Picotani, located in Crucero, province of Sandia, department of Puno. During the attack, the subversives killed 6 civilian guards and the local justice of the peace. As a consequence of this attack, the teacher and …
GRUDE, which had been operating since 1986 without a resolution of creation, was formalized by RD. No. 31-29-DG-FFPP/DOES. The main purpose of its creation was to combat urban subversion, air piracy and the liberation of hostages. This DOES unit developed special operations in different areas of the country quite independently …
On August 25, 1987, the Directorate of Special Operations of the Police Forces (DOES) was created in a context of intense political violence in the country, marked by the actions of both the PCP-SL and the MRTA. This creation took place in a context of intense political violence in the …
On June 8, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Paucartambo police post in the province of the same name in the department of Cuzco. This attack was part of a series of PCP-SL raids against various police posts in the upper provinces of Cuzco during June 1987. The attack took …
The Peruvian government accepted the resignation of the general director of the Police Forces and the senior directors of the Civil Guard (GC) and the Republican Guard (GR). This decision took place in a context of increasing political violence and terrorism in the country. The resignations were part of changes …
On May 25, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Pisac police post in the province of Cuzco. During the attack, Civil Guard Jaime Quispe was killed. This attack took place in the context of a series of PCP-SL offensives against various police posts in the high provinces of Cuzco during …
On January 27, 1987, there was a massacre of peasants in the province of Chumbivilcas, department of Cuzco, perpetrated by the Civil Guard. This event occurred in the context of the highland provinces of the department, where the situation of the internal armed conflict was different from other areas. In …
Robinsón Silva Mori was a university student who was killed by police forces in Huaura province in 1987. He was accused of terrorism in the context of the internal armed conflict. This murder occurred during the period when the security forces were conducting intelligence operations in the area north of …
In 1987, there was an attack by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against the police post in the district of Gorgor, in the province of Cajatambo. The attack resulted in two fatalities, policemen Medina and Davila. This attack was part of the expansion of the operations of the PCP-SL's main force bases …
In the province of Chumbivilcas, department of Cuzco, the Civil Guard committed the murder of teachers and students in the towns of Quiñota and Santo Tomás during 1987. This occurred in the context of a first massacre of peasants perpetrated by the same Civil Guard on January 27, 1987 in …
On April 24, 1986, members of the police forces were assassinated in Aucayacu. This event is part of a series of violent attacks that occurred during that period in the context of the Peruvian internal armed conflict. The attack is recorded in the 1986 summary of the CVR report as …
On March 4, 1986, Lieutenant Commander AP Alvaro Artaza Adrianzén disappeared just before the trial against him for the Ayala case began. He was to be the first officer to be tried for the disappearance of journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca. The report mentions sub-officer Lince (second warrant officer AP Román …
On February 5, 1986, the unification of the Peruvian Police Forces took place. This measure was part of the reforms implemented during the administration of Alan Garcia Perez. Previously, on August 15, 1985, Congress had passed a law declaring the reorganization of the Police Forces. On August 19, 1985, the …
In 1986, in Curgos, district of Huamachuco, 12 hikers were surprised while resting in the house of Carmen Sandoval Loayza. During the attack, three hikers were killed in the confrontation. Carmen Sandoval's daughter was killed in the archway at the entrance to the town and another hiker was killed nearby. …
On August 19, 1985, the Peruvian government announced the decision to dismiss and retire 37 generals from the Police Forces. This measure took place in the context of the reorganization of the Police Forces which had been approved by Congress on August 15 by means of a law declaring the …
The Peruvian Congress passed a law declaring the reorganization of the Peruvian Police Forces. This measure was part of the institutional reforms implemented during the transition government, in a context of intense political violence and questions about the performance of law enforcement. The police reorganization sought to restructure the country's …
On January 10, 1985, four subversives assassinated two Republican guards who were guarding a high-voltage tower in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima. This attack was part of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso's strategy of attacking electrical infrastructure and eliminating members of the forces of law and order. The attack …
On November 24, 1984, there was a confrontation with the Vilcabamba police. At the same time, that same day, a combined police, military and self-defense committee operation was carried out, apparently coming from the province of La Mar, in the department of Ayacucho, which disappeared the community of Lucmahuayco, assassinating …
On August 2, 1984, members of the police forces raided the home of journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca's mother in Huanta. Jaime Ayala Sulca was a correspondent for the newspaper La República. This raid occurred in the context of the journalist's disappearance, which caused a commotion in political circles along with …
The Socos massacre was perpetrated by police forces in November 1983, resulting in the murder of 34 peasants. This event occurred in the same year as other significant massacres such as the Shining Path incursions in Lucanamarca and Huancasancos that left 80 dead in April. Unlike the massacre of 8 …
General GC Juan Balaguer was appointed Superior Director of the Civil Guard on June 3, 1983. This appointment signified his return to that position after two years of absence. The appointment took place in a context of intense anti-subversive activity and reorganization of the police forces in the country. Balaguer's …
The Civil Guard went on strike on May 25, 1983, in a context of growing political violence and social tension in the country. As an immediate response to this paralyzation of the police forces, the government decreed a state of emergency in Lima and Callao. This measure was part of …
Electric power was interrupted in Huamanga and there was a severe attack by the PCP-SL on the Ninth Command of the Civil Guard. Attacks were also carried out in other areas of the city. These events led the Political Military Command to order the execution of an operations plan for …
Civil guard Edwin Heredia Sotomayor was murdered by the PCP-SL two blocks from the Ninth Police Station of the Civil Guard in Huamanga as he was leaving work. A few days later, economist Flavio Quispe Huamán died of a bullet to the head. The murder, which occurred in unclear circumstances, …
In October 1982, the PCP-SL carried out an attack in Santo Tomás de Pata, looting merchants' stores and destroying machinery and equipment. In response to this attack, a few days later, the police 'Sinchis' raided the area for the first time with the objective of searching for the Shining Path …
On September 27, 1982, there was an assault on the Erapata police post, in the district of Vilcabamba, province of La Convención, department of Cuzco. According to the official police communiqué, 27 armed terrorist elements participated and destroyed the police post. In the attack, the guard Luis Chávez Ordóñez was …
Sinchis arrived in Chalcos in two helicopters and presented themselves to the population as protectors. They organized sports championships. After two weeks they began to get drunk and captured a group of teachers, whom they accused of being terrorists without any evidence. After detaining and beating them for several hours …
Attack by the PCP-SL on the Vilcashuamán Line Headquarters. The policemen were harassed by snipers at night and feared that a similar event to the one that occurred at CRAS could happen. The line chief called for help and General GC Jorge Monge Llanos, head of the II Police Region, …
Assault by the PCP-SL on the Center for Reclusion and Social Adaptation (CRAS) of Huamanga. A group of approximately 100 subversives attacked the prison. A total of 247 inmates escaped, of which at least 50 were sentenced or being prosecuted for alleged terrorism. The assault left two policemen dead: Florencio …
Attempted escape from the Huamanga Center for Imprisonment and Social Adaptation (CRAS). In this attempt four subversives died and Eucario Najarro Jáuregui and Vicente Amilcar Urbay Ovalle were seriously wounded. They were taken to the hospital of Huamanga under surveillance of the Civil Guard. Carlos Alcántara, a school student and …
In February 1982, in the locality of Chanta, district of Umaca, four community authorities were detained and disappeared by police officers. This occurred in the context of police repression that resulted in the detention of countless peasants accused of belonging to the PCP-SL. The police arrests were accompanied by looting …
PCP-SL attack on the police post of San José de Secce. This attack was part of the series of attacks on police posts that the PCP-SL carried out after the lifting of the first state of emergency, as part of its strategy of systematic intimidation of police elements and overexcitement …
PCP-SL attack on the Toctos police post. This attack occurred after the lifting of the first state of emergency in Ayacucho on December 12. The PCP-SL began to attack public buildings, police posts, especially the more rural ones, and members of the forces of law and order, in a campaign …
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