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 Peruvian Congress approved Law 25103, which established the reduction of sentences for persons linked to terrorist acts in cases of collaboration with the authorities. This law was passed during the government of Alan García Pérez, in a context of intensified political violence by the PCP-SL and the MRTA. The …
Alberto Valencia, the APRA deputy for Ayacucho, announced a new movement of peasant patrols that are organizing themselves spontaneously to free themselves from the PCP-SL. The leader of these ronderos, called Comandante Huayhuaco, specifies that "if the government would only give me a hundred rifles, a hundred FAL, until November …
The Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Armando Villanueva del Campo, addresses a message to the nation on the anti-subversive struggle. In his message, he informed that a project of supreme decree had been elaborated by which all state agencies would support the actions against subversion. This message is …
In March 1989, new cabinet ministers were sworn in under the presidency of Armando Villanueva del Campo. On March 10, the Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Armando Villanueva del Campo, addressed a message to the nation on the anti-subversive struggle. In this message he informed that a project …
In March 1989, the APRA government of President Alan García Pérez formally involved the peasant patrols in the anti-subversive struggle. On March 24, Alberto Valencia, the APRA deputy for Ayacucho, announced a new movement of peasant patrols that were organizing spontaneously to free themselves from the PCP-SL. The leader of …
President Alan Garcia Perez promulgates law 24953, which establishes drastic sanctions for those who participate in terrorist acts. This law states that anyone who provokes, creates or maintains a state of anxiety, alarm or terror will be punished with a prison sentence of no less than 15 years. The law …
On December 6, 1988, a PCP-SL commando, acting under the name of the Revolutionary Workers Movement (MOR), assassinated AP Navy Captain Juan Vega Llona, who was serving as naval attaché of the Peruvian embassy in Bolivia. Vega Llona was an expert in anti-subversive struggle and was stationed in the emergency …
The Interministerial Coordinating Commission for the Fight against Subversion was installed as part of the strategy of the APRA government to fight subversion. The commission was integrated by three key cabinet ministers: the Minister of Defense, General EP Enrique López Albújar Trint; the Minister of the Interior, Agustín Soria; and …
FAP Commander General, FAP Lieutenant General Cesar Enrico Praelli, stated in the newspaper Expreso that there is a general consensus among the Armed Forces to exercise total control of the anti-subversive fight. However, he added that the armed forces had not yet fully entered into the fight against subversion. Praelli …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry publicly rejected the letters sent by Amnesty International (AI) that pointed out that in the anti-subversive struggle, excesses and human rights violations were being committed. Belaunde Terry not only described this institution as 'communist', but also declared that these letters would go 'directly to the trash …
Amnesty International (AI) sent letters to President Fernando Belaúnde Terry pointing out that human rights violations and excesses were being committed in the anti-subversive struggle. The president rejected the letters on August 18, 1983, calling the institution 'communist' and declaring that the letters would go 'directly to the trash can'. …
On July 28, 1983, President Fernando Belaunde Terry presented his annual message to the Congress of the Republic. In this speech, Belaunde Terry demanded the reestablishment of the death penalty, in the context of the escalation of political violence that the country was going through. This message was given in …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry issued an ultimatum to the subversives to surrender their weapons before the Armed Forces took control of the emergency zone. This ultimatum took place in the context of a growing wave of terrorist attacks, especially in Ayacucho, and preceded the decision of the Armed Forces to …
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