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.
The first important event that affected the Apurímac River Valley was the 1965 guerrilla war, led by a group of the ELN headed by Héctor Béjar. This guerrilla definitely disrupted the existing order in the province of La Mar. The process of land appropriation accelerated later with the application of …
At the end of 1962, a group of 40 militant men from the National Liberation Army (ELN), led by Héctor Béjar, tried to enter the country clandestinely through the Bolivian border to support the peasant leader Hugo Blanco in the valleys of La Convención and Lares de Cuzco. An advance …
The first period of the guerrillas, between 1961 and 1963, brought together the experiences of the Revolutionary Left Front (FIR) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), whose objective was to support the peasant mobilization of Chaupimayo, in the valleys of La Convención and Lares de Cuzco, led by the peasant …
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