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.
A female affiant recounts the disappearance of her son in Putaqa, district of San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in December 2002. The mother expresses the anguish and uncertainty characteristic of relatives of the disappeared, expressing thoughts such as "suddenly he will be …
A female affiant recounts the disappearance of her son and husband in Putaqa, San Miguel, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in December 2002 in Ayacucho. The affiant describes the situation of extreme poverty in which she was left after these events, pointing out that her daughter suffers from …
A respondent recounts the disappearance of her son and husband in Putaqa, San Miguel, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony reflects the profound emotional and psychological impact of these disappearances on the affiant's life. The woman describes how the loss of her family members has left her in a situation of …
The declarant gave testimony before the CVR narrating the disappearance of his nephew in the locality of Acco, Tambo District, La Mar Province, Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in November 2002 in Ayacucho. This case is part of the numerous testimonies documented by the TRC on forced disappearances that occurred …
The affiant witnessed murders in the community of Huayau, located in the district of Tambo, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The facts were narrated in a testimony collected in November 2002. The testimony is part of the documented statements on political violence in the Ayacucho region during the …
The affiant recounts the disappearance of her husband in the district of Ayna, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony reflects the anguish and uncertainty characteristic of cases of forced disappearance, where family members are uncertain whether the person is alive or dead. The witness expresses the need to know the truth …
Testimony collected in Ayacucho in November 2002, identified with code 201920. The declarant was a direct witness of murders that occurred in the community of Huayau, located in the district of Tambo, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. This testimony is part of the documentation compiled by the CVR …
In-depth interview with a 35-year-old farmer in the locality of Oronqoy, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The interview was carried out between November and December 2002 as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work to collect testimonies. The testimony deals with the experiences lived during the internal …
The affiant recounts the disappearance of his nephew in Acco, Tambo district, La Mar province, Ayacucho department. This testimony was collected in November 2002 in Ayacucho. The case is part of the numerous events of forced disappearance that occurred in the area during the internal armed conflict. The disappearance left …
A woman testified before the CVR about the murders that occurred in the village of Rayama, located in San Miguel, province of La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in October 2002 as part of the documentation of human rights violations during the internal armed conflict. The affiant was a …
The affiant witnessed murders in the town of Rayama, located in San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimonies refer to the extreme violence experienced in the area and the profound psychological impact on the survivors. The testimony describes how after these violent events, the people were …
A declarant told the CVR about the disappearance of her brother in San Miguel, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in October 2002 in Ayacucho. This case is part of the numerous testimonies of forced disappearances that occurred in the province of La Mar during the internal armed conflict. …
The witness recounts the disappearance of her brother in San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in October 2002 as part of the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The declarant expresses feelings of incomprehension in the face of the violent events that …
The affiant witnessed murders in the town of Rayana (also known as Rayama), located in San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimonies refer to these violent events in the context of the internal armed conflict. The witness describes the traumatic impact of witnessing these murders, subsequently …
The affiant witnessed murders in the town of Rayana, San Miguel, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony describes experiences of extreme violence and its profound psychological effects on the victims. The declarant relates how after witnessing these violent events, she experienced a deep trauma expressed in the phrase "not even the …
Mother and daughter narrate the kidnapping and murder of family members that occurred in San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in October 2002 as part of the statements before the CVR. This case is part of the multiple murders and disappearances that affected …
A PCP-SL column kills 12 community members of Matucana Alta - Trigolini, La Mar, Ayacucho, and leaves four others wounded. This massacre is part of the Shining Path's campaign of terror against peasant communities.
In July 1993, ten villagers were killed near Sivia. The event occurred in the context of the violence affecting the Apurimac River Valley during the internal armed conflict. The perpetrator of the attack was not identified in the report's records. This event is part of a period of continuous clashes …
In July 1993, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso intercepted several vehicles in Charapa, Ayna district. During the raid, the subversives seized merchandise from the passengers, including noodles, rice and sugar. As a result of this attack, 16 people were killed by the Shining Path militants.
In July 1993, peasant ronderos from Santa Rosa detained a group of people in the context of the internal armed conflict. During this event, 4 people were detained and 21 people were killed by the ronderos. This event is part of the period of violence between the counter-subversive peasant patrols …
In November 1992, there was a confrontation between the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the peasant patrols in Torrerumi, Sivia district. The local ronderos went out to look for the Shining Path guerrillas after they had killed two villagers in a previous raid. This confrontation is part of the dynamics of violence …
Between October 9 and 10, 1992, at approximately 10:00 p.m., 100 hikers, including men and women, surrounded the community of Huayao. In the early morning of October 10, they killed 53 people who were in their homes or trying to flee. The hikers used firearms, axes and explosives. They burned …
A group of Sivia patrols, made up of ronderos from different communities, went to Sello de Oro where they clashed with hikers. The confrontation resulted in the death of 13 people. This event is framed in the context of the confrontations between the peasant patrols and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in …
On February 23, 1991, subversives murdered 23 peasants in the district of Ayna, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. This event occurred in the context of the political violence affecting the country during the first year of Alberto Fujimori's government. The event took place in the midst of an …
Between 1991 and 1992, the first settlers returned to Mollebamba after years of forced displacement caused by the internal armed conflict. This return was part of a broader repopulation process that began in 1987 with the change in government policy and the actions of Major Miguel Seminario Ayacuchano, who implemented …
The PCP-SL perpetrated a massacre in the locality of Canaire, district of Sivia, province of La Mar. The event resulted in the death of 32 villagers. This massacre occurred in the context of the Shining Path offensive against the populations organized in self-defense committees in the Apurimac River Valley, during …
In November 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated 4 ronderos belonging to the Santa Rosa peasant patrol, district of Ayna, province of La Mar. This attack took place in the context of the Shining Path offensive against the Self-Defense Committees and the peasant patrols that had organized to resist their presence …
On August 9, 1989, a group of 200 ronderos left Santa Rosa for Tambo in an action called operation Halcón. The reason for this operation was to reorganize the rondas in the highland districts of La Mar province, whose authorities, faced with the advance of the PCP-SL, had sent a …
On August 9, 1989, a group of 200 ronderos left Santa Rosa for Tambo, La Mar, on the heights of the Huamanga-San Francisco highway, in an action called 'Operation Hawk'. The reason for this operation was to reorganize the patrols in the highland districts of La Mar province. The authorities …
In July 1989, the PCP-SL carried out an incursion in Choimacota, Sivia district. This action occurred after the Peruvian Army organized the villagers into Self-Defense Committees (CAD). The raid was part of the Shining Path offensive in the late 1980s in the Apurimac River Valley, when the PCP-SL intensified its …
In June 1989, there was a confrontation between the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the peasant patrols in Llochegua. The confrontation resulted in the death of 3 ronderos. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of Shining Path actions in the Apurimac River Valley between 1986 and 1989, a period …
In February 1989, a column of more than 300 hikers arrived in the village of Canayre in boats from the Ene River. The attackers first killed the village's watchmen. Subsequently, the hikers asked the authorities for a list of landowners. According to testimonies, they killed 37 villagers, selecting some landowners …
Two hikers entered the declarant's house, took her to the side of a road and raped her. The incident occurred in the context of armed incursions by PCP-SL in the area.
The Shining Path perpetrated a massacre in the public square of the Rumi-Rumi hamlet. Twenty-four peasants were killed, among them 14 adults and 10 children, gunned down for the crime of having organized civil defense patrols. Most of the victims were authorities and young people from the village. As a …
In the 1987 municipal elections, the United Left (IU) won in the province of Huamanga, while the APRA won in the provinces of Huanta and La Mar. These elections took place in a context of relative calm in Ayacucho, between 1986 and 1988, due to several factors: the decision of …
The Shining Path killed babies and small children whose cries could give away the location of their camps to the army. Shining Path commanders warned women to make sure their children did not cry, because the military could easily locate them. When a child cried a lot, generally because of …
On September 26, 1985, at 9:00 p.m., approximately 100 hikers raided Huayao. The villagers, members of the Civil Defense decided to confront them. The hikers looted and burned the villagers' houses. At 4:00 a.m. when they withdrew, Mariano Marquina Miguel was found seriously wounded with a spear in his stomach …
In August 1985, the Peruvian army executed 21 people in Santa Rosa, a district in the province of La Mar. This event occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations in the Apurimac River Valley (VRA), an area where the Armed Forces and the DECAS (Counter-Subversive Civil Defense) had gained control …
In July 1985, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the Sol Naciente farm, located in the district of Ayna, province of La Mar. During this incursion, the Shining Path guerrillas assassinated local villagers. The attack resulted in the death of 5 people. This event occurred in the context of the …
The text of the CVR report mentions the District of San Martin, Province of La Mar, Department of Ayacucho during 1985 in the context of human rights violations that occurred during the internal armed conflict. Although the reference is brief and appears in a list of locations, it is found …
On December 29, 1984, 22 peasants from various communities of La Mar (Ayacucho) were killed by the so-called rondas or paramilitary groups against members of the PCP-SL. This event occurred in the context of the escalation of violence that characterized 1984 in the emergency zone of Ayacucho. The rondas, also …
In October 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed 7 community members in the town of Huanchi, Santa Rosa district, in the Apurimac River Valley. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of Shining Path violence in the area, during the period in which the PCP-SL sought to consolidate its …
In October 1984, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 16 people in the Ayna district. The bodies of the victims were found on the banks of the San Francisco River. This event was part of the escalation of violence that characterized 1984 in the Apurimac River Valley, a period in …
In August 1984, four villagers from San Antonio de Pichihuillca were detained by members of the Peruvian Army and subsequently disappeared. This event occurred in the context of the expansion of the Defensas Civiles Contrasubversivas (DECAS) in the Apurimac River Valley, where the organization had been formally constituted on June …
In August 1984, members of the Peruvian Army (EP) detained, tortured and killed 2 ronderos in Santa Rosa. This event occurred in the context of the formation of the Counter-Subversive Civil Defense Forces (DECAS) in the Apurimac River Valley and the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the area. …
On July 2, 1984, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso broke into the towns of Huayrapata, San Antonio de Paterini, San Martin and Quillabamba, all located in the district of San Francisco, province of La Mar. The attackers killed forty peasants who had collaborated with the forces of law and order. …
In July 1984, members of the Peruvian Army perpetrated a mass murder in the town of Pucayacu, Ayna district, La Mar province. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of military operations in the Apurimac River Valley during 1984, the year in which the Armed Forces and the …
In July 1984, members of the Self-Defense Committee kidnapped residents of San Queruato, Ayna district. As a result of this kidnapping, two people were killed. This event occurred in the context of the formation and expansion of the Counter-Subversive Civil Defense Forces (DECAS) in the Apurimac River Valley, a period …
On June 24, 1984, elements of the PCP-SL (Shining Path) murdered 22 peasants in Ccaccamarca, La Mar province, Ayacucho. The murders occurred after the PCP-SL held a popular trial against the victims. This event occurred in the context of the second wave of the II Military Campaign of the PCP-SL, …
In June 1984, soldiers murdered eight villagers in the town of Rosario, Ayna district, La Mar province. This event occurred during the period of greatest violence in the Apurimac River Valley, when the Armed Forces had taken control of the area under the Political Military Command. The event took place …
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