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.
GRP Colonel Rolando Cabezas Alarcón, convicted for his responsibility in the extrajudicial executions in the Lurigancho prison in June 1986, was released on June 16, 1995 by application of Amnesty Law No. 26479, after serving his sentence since 1986.
Simeón Auccatoma Quispe, a member of the Uchuraccay community and one of the three defendants arrested for the massacre of journalists on January 26, 1983, died in prison of tuberculosis contracted in the Lurigancho prison. During the oral trial, Auccatoma Quispe was extremely affected and submissive, bursting into tears several …
On June 27, 1986, President Alan Garcia Perez admitted that there was evidence of the commission of crimes in the Lurigancho prison by the Republican Guard and announced the beginning of an investigation aimed at punishing all those responsible for the massacre, with the famous phrase 'either all those responsible …
President Alan Garcia Perez addressed a message to the country on June 24, 1986, four days after the riot of terrorist detainees in three prisons in Lima and Callao (Lurigancho, El Fronton and Santa Barbara) occurred on June 18. In his message, the president condemned terrorism and reiterated his support …
On June 21, 1986, the Government officially admitted the possibility that excessive use of force had been committed in the Lurigancho prison and informed that it had ordered the Military Court to investigate these events, following complaints by Senator Javier Diez Canseco and the media about extrajudicial executions.
Between June 18 and 19, 1986, there were simultaneous riots in three penitentiaries in Lima. In CRAS Lurigancho, 124 inmates died after repression by members of the Navy and the Republican Guard. In CRAS El Frontón, located in Callao, approximately 150 inmates died. In CRAS Santa Barbara 3 female inmates …
On June 18 and 19, 1986, there was a riot of subversive prisoners in three prisons in Lima: CRAS Lurigancho (124 dead), CRAS El Frontón (more than 100 dead), and CRAS Santa Bárbara (3 inmates dead). This event was the largest collective massacre in the history of Peru up to …
On June 18, 1986, detainees held for terrorism in three prisons in Lima and Callao (Lurigancho, El Frontón and Santa Bárbara) rioted. In Santa Barbara two subversives died on June 19. The government ordered the Joint Command to have the military justice system carry out the necessary investigations to determine …
Between June 18 and 19, 1986 there were simultaneous riots in three prisons: CRAS Lurigancho, CRAS El Frontón in Callao, and CRAS Santa Bárbara. The riot in Lurigancho was broken up by members of the Navy and the Republican Guard, resulting in 124 inmates dead. In the Frontón prison approximately …
PCP-SL militants rioted in three prisons: El Frontón, Lurigancho and Santa Mónica, taking advantage of the media coverage of the Socialist International congress taking place in Lima. Garcia's government commissioned the Armed Forces to put an end to the riot with a death toll of 244 people. Almost immediately, pro-guerrilla …
On June 18, 1986, there was a Shining Path riot in the Lurigancho, El Frontón and Santa Bárbara prisons with hostage taking. The Council of Ministers decided to reestablish order with maximum energy, entrusting the task to the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. The repression resulted in the death …
In June 1986, inmates accused of terrorism of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso rioted and took control of wards in Lurigancho and El Frontón prisons. Between June 18 and 19, operations were carried out to retake control. The official toll was 124 inmates dead in Lurigancho and 119 in El Frontón. There …
On June 18 and 19, 1986 there were simultaneous riots organized by the PCP-SL in three prisons in Lima and Callao. Law enforcement forces intervened with extreme violence resulting in the death of 244 inmates executed: 118 in El Frontón, 124 in Lurigancho and 2 in Santa Bárbara. The riots …
PCP-SL inmates of the Lurigancho prison rioted to prevent a search. The Peruvian Republican Guard broke up the riot, resulting in the death of 30 inmates. This was one of the first episodes of mass violence in prisons during the internal armed conflict.
Riot in the Lurigancho prison that resulted in the death of inmates. The APRA government did not assume any responsibility for these events. This event marked a point in which the denunciations of human rights violations did not find the same echo as in previous cases.
In 1967, the administrative division of the district of Lurigancho took place to create the new district of San Juan de Lurigancho. This division was the result of the pressure of urban growth in the eastern part of Metropolitan Lima. The process of district subdivision was part of the sociodemographic …
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