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.
Testimony collected in Lima in January 2003 from a resident of Moya, Huancavelica, Huancavelica. The affiant suffered the murder of her parents and other family members by members of the Armed Forces. The testimony is part of the documentation on the psychological and emotional impacts of violence, specifically related to …
Testimony number 302397 collected at the Central Regional Headquarters of the CVR in November 2002. The declarant narrates the murder of her husband in Huaytara, Huancavelica. The testimony is part of the documentation on cases of violence and loss of family members during the internal armed conflict. The witness recounts …
The affiant recounts the disappearance of her husband in San Carlos, Huancavelica. This testimony was collected in November 2002 in Huancayo. The case is one of many testimonies of forced disappearances that occurred during the internal armed conflict in Peru. The disappearance of her husband left the affiant in a …
A witness told the CVR about the disappearance of her husband in San Carlos, Huancavelica. The testimony was collected in November 2002 at the Central Regional Headquarters. This case is part of the testimonies on forced disappearances that represented 18.70% of the facts reported to the TRC. Most of the …
The witness recounts the murder of her husband in Huaytara, Huancavelica. The testimony was collected in November 2002 at the Central Regional Headquarters. This case is part of the multiple murders documented during the internal armed conflict in the Huancavelica region. The testimony reflects the emotional and psychological impact that …
The affiant recounts the disappearance of her husband in San Carlos, Huancavelica. The testimony was collected at the Central Headquarters in November 2002. This case is part of the numerous testimonies of forced disappearances documented by the CVR in the region of Huancavelica during the internal armed conflict.
Testimony collected at CVR Headquarters in November 2002. The affiant narrates the disappearance of her husband in San Carlos, Huancavelica. The testimony is part of an analysis of coca and alcohol consumption as coping mechanisms in the face of traumatic experiences of violence. The affiant recounts how these practices intensified …
Testimony collected in September 2002 in Lima on the murder of the declarant's husband in Ticrapo, province of Castrovirreyna, department of Huancavelica. The testimony is part of the documentation compiled by the CVR on the acts of violence that occurred during the internal armed conflict. The declarant narrates the facts …
A resident of Moya, Huancavelica, Huancavelica suffered the murder of her parents and other family members by members of the Armed Forces. The testimony was collected in Lima in January 2003. This case illustrates the victims' adaptive attempts that included passivity and accommodation to the new situation following the violence. …
On July 26, 1995, an explosion occurred in Huancavelica that killed seven policemen. Among the victims was a major of the Peruvian National Police (PNP). The event occurred in the context of the political violence that affected the department of Huancavelica during the 1990s. This attack was part of the …
The Superior Court of Huancavelica issued resolution 27/93 ordering the definitive dismissal of the Santa Barbara case in application of amnesty law 26479. The resolution argued that the crimes were committed during the fight against terrorism in an emergency zone, and therefore the amnesty should be applied. This decision consolidated …
The Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Huancavelica declared Amnesty Law No. 26479 applicable to the process followed against Lieutenant EP Javier Bendezú Vargas and his subordinates, ordering the cutting of the sequel of the process and its definitive archiving. They also annulled the judicial and police records of …
The Superior Deputy Prosecutor of Huancavelica issued ruling No. 05/95 in the case of the Santa Barbara community, concluding that the general amnesty of Law 26479 was applicable to the military-police defendants for the crimes they were being prosecuted for. This ruling exemplifies how the justice system applied amnesty laws …
In June 1994, the military base that had been in operation for almost a decade was withdrawn from the district of Marcas, in the province of Angaraes. This withdrawal took place in the context of a significant decrease in subversive activity after the capture of Abimael Guzmán in 1992 and …
In June 1994, the military base installed in the district of Marcas withdrew from the area. This withdrawal took place in a context of declining subversive activity in the region, after years of military presence aimed at combating the Shining Path. The withdrawal of military forces marked a change in …
In February 1994, members of the National Police murdered Santiago Lizana Acha, a mine worker, with a bullet to the head in the mining center of Julcani, Huancavelica. The police accused him of being a terrorist. This murder occurred in a context of repression against mine workers and union leaders …
In February 1994, a Shining Path column raided the villages of Balcón and Picota, located in the district of Santo Domingo. This event occurred in a context of declining subversive activity, after the capture of Abimael Guzmán in 1992 and the 1993 peace accords. Subversive activity was so low at …
In February 1994, a Shining Path column raided the villages of Balcón and Picota as they attempted to enter the district of Santo Domingo. This event occurred in the context of Shining Path's final actions in the province of Angaraes, Huancavelica. The incursion occurred after the area had experienced years …
A Shining Path column entered the hacienda where the affiant worked, capturing her entire family. Later they stole their belongings and took them to an abandoned house, where they raped the affiant in the presence of her husband and children. The case is evidence of sexual violence as a form …
The CVR report mentions the Huancavelica Military Base in the context of sexual violence during the internal armed conflict. Specific reference is made to cases of rape that resulted in pregnancies of the victims. The facts are documented in testimonies that indicate that the victims in both testimonies related to …
In November 1993, during a workers' mobilization at the Julcani mining center, worker Juvenal Martínez was shot and killed by military personnel. The murder was perpetrated by a major identified as Rubén Rodríguez Rebanal, who shot Martínez at point-blank range. The mobilization was in protest against the mine's industrial relations …
In 1993, the PCP-SL assassinated the industrial relations officer of the Julcani mine in one of its last bloody actions in the mining centers. Since then, the military and the police have been controlling the mining centers. During a workers' mobilization in the Julcani mining center, worker Juvenal Martinez was …
In October 1993, the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path (PCP-SL) shot and killed the industrial relations manager of the Julcani mine. This was one of the last bloody acts of the PCP-SL in the mining centers of the region. After this assassination, the military and the police carried out greater …
In October 1993, the PCP-SL (Shining Path) shot and killed the industrial relations manager of the Julcani mine, in one of its last bloody actions in the mining centers of Huancavelica. This murder was part of the PCP-SL strategy of attacking authorities and administrative personnel of mining companies. As a …
Beginning in 1993, the mining centers of Pasco, Junín and Huancavelica entered into a privatization process that resulted in massive layoffs of workers. As an example, Caudalosa Grande had 1,500 workers in 1980, but by 2000 only 100 workers remained. This privatization process was considered by many workers as arbitrary …
Beginning in 1993, the mining centers of Huancavelica entered into a privatization process similar to that which occurred in the mining centers of Pasco and Junín. This process resulted in massive layoffs of mine workers, many of them considered arbitrary by those affected. One specific testimony mentions that at Caudalosa …
On April 6, 1992, soldiers attacked a family in the community of Vilca. According to the testimony of a woman from the community, the soldiers beat and raped her two sisters and her mother, and then killed them. The victims were calling for help during the attack. The events occurred …
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 …
In 1992, Shining Path attacked a police station in the province of Huancavelica, resulting in the death of 4 policemen. This attack took place in a context where the communities of Julcamarca, with the support of the army and the ronderos of Lircay, were consolidating the Rondas Campesinas. The attack …
In 1992, the communities of Julcamarca managed to consolidate the Rondas Campesinas with the support of the army and the ronderos of Lircay. This consolidation process took place in a context of intensifying violence in the area, where the Shining Path had been systematically attacking members of the Rondas Campesinas. …
The capture of Abimael Guzmán, the main leader of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, occurred in 1992 and marked a turning point in the Peruvian internal armed conflict. This event occurred during the period of the so-called 'leap to strategic balance' when PCP-SL members had intensified their attacks against police and military …
In 1992, fifteen soldiers intercepted a witness and his wife in Huancavelica, accusing them of having seen terrorists passing by. The soldiers raped the witness's wife in front of him. The testimony documents how sexual violence was used by military personnel as a form of intimidation and punishment against civilians …
In November 1991, 37 peasants were massacred in the district of Santo Tomás de Pata, province of Angaraes, department of Huancavelica. The victims included women, the elderly and children. This event was part of the context of political violence that affected the country during the internal armed conflict. The massacre …
In November 1991, PCP-Sendero Luminoso terrorists assassinated 10 peasants in the town of Huari for belonging to the peasant patrols. This attack was part of a broader offensive against self-defense organizations in the area. The same month, another Shining Path column had raided the district of Santo Tomás de Pata, …
In November 1991, a Shining Path column raided the district of Santo Tomás de Pata and killed 37 members of the peasant patrols. This attack took place in the context of a PCP-SL offensive against the Self-Defense Committees, considered by the Shining Path as the main obstacle to its political-military …
Army soldiers detained a group of community members who were coming to the aid of the court for the removal of corpses, holding them in an abandoned house from 10:00 in the morning until 5:30 in the afternoon. At approximately 3:30 the detainees felt an explosion, due to the fact …
Viviano Hilario Mancha, father and grandfather of the disappeared, found the half-buried body of his grandson Héctor Hilario at the entrance of the 'Misteriosa' mine, along with other bodies that he could not recognize. He reported the discovery the next day to the Huancavelica Provincial Prosecutor's Office and to the …
In the early morning of July 4, 1991, a military patrol arrived at the Rodeo Pampa annex and entered the homes of the Hilario family. Francisco Hilario Torres, his wife, two daughters, daughter-in-law and five minor grandchildren were arrested, as well as neighbors Ramón Hilario Morán, his wife and two …
An Army patrol under the command of Infantry Lieutenant Javier Bendezú Vargas killed fifteen people, including adults and children, in a mine known as 'Misteriosa'. The detainees were taken into the tunnel, riddled with FAL bullets and then dynamite explosive charges were set off, causing a deflagration that ended up …
An Army patrol under the command of Lieutenant Javier Bendezú Vargas arrived at the Rodeo Pampa annex and arrested the members of the Hilario family, accusing them of belonging to the subversion. They set fire to their homes to force them to leave, keeping them detained for the rest of …
On July 4, 1991, a military patrol entered the community of Santa Barbara and kidnapped a group of community members. According to testimonies gathered by the CVR, the kidnapped community members were later dynamited in the Misteriosa mine. This fact represents one of the cases of human rights violations committed …
Two military patrols departed from the Lircay Base in execution of the 'Apolonia' operation. The 'Escorpio' patrol was commanded by Infantry Lieutenant Javier Bendezú Vargas and departed at 6:00 p.m. to the area known as Cochajaccsa. The patrol 'Angel' was commanded by Lieutenant Abel Gallo Coca. Both patrols went to …
On June 7, 1991, a contingent of subversives from the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the district of La Merced and carried out a massacre against local authorities and villagers. The victims were Prospero Valencia Porras (district mayor) and his wife Rufina Guevara; Oswaldo Porras Valencia and his wife Juana Santos Mancco; …
On April 19, 1991, ronderos from Musoqpampa, in the district of La Merced, entered the town of Ccásir and arrested Pedro Cajamarca Navarro, a young man who had been recruited against his will by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The ronderos handed him over to the military at the counter-subversive base in …
Senator Raúl Ferrero Costa, president of the Justice and Human Rights Commission, publicly revealed that during the first five months of Alberto Fujimori's government, around 200 people had disappeared in the department of Huancavelica. This denunciation took place in a context of growing concern about the government's respect for human …
In 1991, combined forces of the Army and a civil patrol detained the Santa Barbara community members in Huancavelica. During the operation, they destroyed the houses of the villagers and raped the women in the area. Two military officers, Second Sergeants Carlos Prado Chinchay and Dennis Pacheco, were charged with …
Feliberta Sacha Martinez was a leader of an aid organization in Huancavelica who was assassinated in 1991. Her death is part of the offensive by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against the leaders of popular and grassroots organizations that intensified from mid-1991 onwards. The PCP-SL systematically attacked women leaders working in welfare …
Valentín López Molina, director in charge of the Higher Pedagogical Institute of Huancavelica, was murdered on September 14, 1990. The CVR report notes that it is difficult to establish the authorship of this murder, suggesting that it could have been committed by both subversive forces and State agents. This crime …
On July 3, 1990, three PCP-SL subversives assassinated the Provincial Prosecutor in the town of Pampas, province of Tayacaja, department of Huancavelica. This selective assassination occurred in the context of the PCP-SL's national offensive in 1990, when the death toll increased significantly in the provinces of Tayacaja and Churcampa. The …
On June 25, 1990, on a stretch of the Huachocolpa-Caudalosa highway, a subversive detachment of the PCP-SL attacked a police convoy. One police officer and five subordinates were killed in the attack. This was the last major military action carried out by PCP-SL detachments in the province of Huancavelica, although …
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