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.
Angel Ayala, an engineer from the Micro region of Bolognesi, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Llaclla in 1990. This assassination took place in the context of an escalation of Shining Path violence in the area between 1989 and 1993, a period in which the PCP-SL …
MRTA members stopped the vehicle of the President of the Departmental Development Corporation of San Martin, Demetrio Tafur, 65 kilometers from Tarapoto and forced him to get out and drive it to an unknown location. MRTA made demands related to San Martin: approval of budgets for road improvement, payment to …
On May 31, 1989, 'El Comercio' journalist and environmentalist Barbara D'Achille, along with CORDE-Huancavelica official Esteban Bohorquez, were assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in Tinyacclla, Huancavelica. This double assassination was part of the PCP-SL's 'hit list' during the 1989-1990 Shining Path offensive, a period in which the subversive group claimed …
Félix Ortega, who was president of the Junín Development Corporation, was assassinated on May 8, 1987 in the city of Huancayo. His death was part of a series of "selective annihilations" carried out by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against public officials and members of the forces of law and order in …
Juan Berrospi, president of Cooperación Popular, was assassinated by PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants in the city of Huancayo in May 1987. This assassination was part of a campaign of 'selective annihilations' that increased since January 1987, targeting public officials, members of the security forces and local authorities. Berrospi's murder occurred in …
On December 11, 1982, in the middle of a public act, the provincial mayor of Huamanga, Víctor Jorge Jáuregui, a Popular Action (AP) militant, was wounded by two presumed members of the PCP-SL. The attackers were driving a motorcycle from where they shot him three times in the face. This …
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