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.
On November 26, 1992, Decree Law 25880, the law on the apology of teaching terrorism, was enacted. Article 1 established that the teacher or professor who, taking advantage of his or her condition, influences his or her students by advocating terrorism would be considered as the author of the crime …
After 104 days of strike, teachers returned to the classroom on August 23. The SUTEP (Sindicato Unitario de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú) strike began in May 1991 and lasted more than three months. During the conflict, the government declared a state of emergency in the education sector to …
In July 1991, the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency in the education sector in response to the indefinite strike of SUTEP (Sindicato Unitario de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú) which had been going on since May. The measure was taken in order to avoid jeopardizing the school …
On May 8, 1991, a strike of 260,000 state teachers affiliated to SUTEP began under the leadership of Secretary General Jose Ramos Bosmediano. The strike was a protest against the low salaries of teachers and the union was demanding a general salary increase from the government. During the strike, the …
Patrocinio Quicha Espinoza, Hernán Gutiérrez Araujo, Virgilio Huaranca and Estilo Ayala, all members of SUTEP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), were killed between April 10 and 14, 1983 in the towns of Cangallo and Huamanga. These events occurred in the context of the repression against union …
The national strike of July 19, 1977 represented the most critical moment of the massive protests against the military government of Morales Bermudez throughout the country. The main aspects of the mobilizations were centralized organization, mobilization and marches in the center of the cities, strike of public employees (mainly teachers), …
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