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.
An armed group of five hooded PCP-SL members broke into the premises where the ballot boxes and lists for the next day's national elections were kept and burned eleven ballot boxes. Four of the assailants were soon captured in an abandoned hut near the village. This event was claimed by …
Declaration of the Beginning of the Armed Struggle by the Communist Party of Peru Shining Path. The action in Chuschi surprised the police forces and a large part of Peruvian society. The police forces were neither doctrinally nor logistically and operationally prepared to face this threat. Between 1980 and 1982, …
The Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso began the execution of its plan called 'Initiation of the Armed Struggle' (ILA) against the Peruvian State on the day of the general elections, the first after 14 years. In doing so, it expressed its rejection of the democratic political system that was about …
On May 17, members of the PCP-SL burned 11 ballot boxes in the Ayacucho locality of Chuschi, initiating the political and military plans for the start of the armed struggle. The political strategy was that the times of peace are over and the times of war are beginning. The military …
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