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.
Carlos Chipoco, Harold Forsyth, Beatriz Merino, Fernando Olivera and Alfonso Baella proposed the creation of a Special Intelligence Commission to study the legal regulation and constitutional control of the various intelligence activities of the State. The motion was rejected with 55 votes against and only 11 in favor.
Leonor La Rosa, a former agent of the Army Intelligence Service (SIE), provided classified information to the newspaper La República about the operation plan called 'Bermuda', revealed in notes published on December 9, 10 and 14, 1996. This contributed to aborting the SIE's ongoing plan to make an attempt on …
The Special Intelligence Group (GEIN) of the DINCOTE captured Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, maximum leader of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, together with the party's top leadership, in a residence located in the district of Surquillo. This capture marked a decisive turning point in the internal armed conflict, since after it the actions …
U.S. Army Southern Command personnel were installed with electronic means in the Huallaga Front Command Post to intercept radio communications. This installation was part of the anti-drug forces present in the geographical area of the Huallaga Front during the height of drug trafficking in Campanilla.
The Executive issued 79 legislative decrees on different topics, although most of them dealt with national security. Among these decrees were the national mobilization law, the national defense system law, the national intelligence system law, regulations for the Armed Forces in areas not declared in emergency, the recognition of self-defense …
In August 1991, Santiago Martin Rivas and Carlos Pichilingüe Guevara elaborated the Operations Plan called Cipango. The official objective was to regulate the participation of Army Intelligence in the identification, capture and handing over to the authorities of subversive criminals. However, this plan was conceived and approved at the time …
On July 30, 1991, President Fujimori addressed a memorandum to the Minister of Defense ordering that recognition be given for special work in the area of National Security carried out during 1990 and so far this year. The document specified that this recognition would be considered as an incentive for …
President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, in a message to the nation, shows fragments of one of the videos seized from the leadership of the PCP-SL. The videos had been seized on January 31, 1991 by the GEIN when they raided a house in the district of San Borja (Lima), where they …
On January 31, 1991, the Special Intelligence Group (GEIN) raided a house in the district of San Borja, Lima, where they seized the general archive of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL). Among the confiscated materials were the famous videos showing the leadership of the PCP-SL dancing …
On January 31, 1991, the Special Intelligence Group (GEIN) raided a house in the district of San Borja, Lima, seizing the general archive of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL). In this operation they found the famous videos of the PCP-SL leadership dancing 'Zorba, the Greek'. This …
On January 26, 1991, a local television station projected a video showing a political and cultural event held inside the UNE, where it could be seen that, with the participation of Shining Path leaders, university students and students from a school paraded carrying flags of the PCP-SL and singing hymns …
The GEIN made its first big blow by raiding a house where Abimael Guzman was staying until a few days before and where they found valuable information. After this operation, in the opinion of the police of this unit, the PCP-SL opened like a Pandora's box; the intervention was the …
In June 1990, police raided the Organizational Support Department (DAO) of the PCP-SL, which operated in Monterrico Norte, a military residential area in Lima. The DAO was responsible for drafting the party's directives that went to the central committees and apparatuses. The property was in charge of lawyer Elvia Nila …
The day after the elections, in a new intelligence assessment, the coup plotters explained the electoral result by affirming that there is a natural tendency of the Citizenry in periods of social, political and economic instability, to orient itself towards moderate and non-confrontational positions. The coup plans were suspended because …
On March 5, 1990, the GEIN initiated its first intelligence operation, baptized Isa. Comrade Isa, a member of the Operational Support Group (GAP) of the PCP-SL, had been arrested in 1986 by the DIRCOTE and was released shortly afterwards for lack of evidence. That same year, the mother of a …
The coup plotters made an intelligence assessment in which they concluded that the forecasts on an electoral process, transfer of government and the next months of the new administration of the country within an orderly framework lack realism and could lead the Republic to the unleashing of a generalized social …
From 1989 to 1992, the number of cases of forced disappearance of persons by State agents increased significantly. The change in strategy was associated with the new conflict scenarios opened up by the actions of subversive organizations, especially in urban areas where operations to eliminate suspected subversives were carried out …
During a search ordered by the Primer Juzgado de Paz Letrado de San Juan de Lurigancho, police officers found a large amount of subversive literature in the house where Roger Tito Valle Travesaño and Yovanka Elizabeth Pardavé Trujillo lived. The analysis of the seized documents revealed that they belonged to …
Between 1985 and 1989 there was a decrease in the intensity of the internal armed conflict accompanied by a relative decrease in crimes and human rights violations committed by State agents. State agents carried out an evaluation of their performance and designed a new strategy that sought to combat armed …
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