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 command of the Fifth Military Region based in Iquitos ordered the mobilization of a new contingent of soldiers and officers to the Putumayo River. The objective of this mobilization was to avoid a possible invasion by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This action reflects border tensions and …
The Front for the Defense of the Interests of the People of Loreto called a 24-hour regional civic strike to protest the signing of the oil contract with Texas Crude in the Pacaya Samiria reserve. The strike was successfully observed by the region's population. This mobilization took place in the …
The MRTA raided the city of Yurimaguas with 95 armed men who attacked the Navy base and the police post in two groups, forcing the few troops to surrender and freeing prisoners in the local jail. While one group held a rally, another group opened the doors of the commercial …
The Ministry of the Interior issued a communiqué informing about the capture of Benedicto Peña, mayor of the district of Lagunas, Yurimaguas. Peña was arrested in the company of other apristas while they were handing out leaflets of the Comando Rodrigo Franco. The Comando Rodrigo Franco was a paramilitary group …
A declarant who was a former PCP-SL military commander says that on one occasion they killed a woman who was supposedly a snitch. The declarant says that since the woman was nice and pretty, five or ten minutes after killing her, he had sex with the corpse. Others asked him …
A Shining Path detachment took the town of Lagunas, near Yurimaguas, attacking the police post and killing two policemen and an official of the Agrarian Bank. The group was led by the doctor Luis Castillo Tapia, head of the Lagunas hospital. In their retreat, the hikers clashed near the small …
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