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.
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During the last part of the twentieth century, the highlands of Peru saw the emergence of one of the most brutal guerrilla organizations in the world, the Partido Comunista de …
During the latter part of the twentieth century, the Peruvian highlands gave rise to one of the most brutal guerrilla organizations in the world, El Partido Comunista de Peru por …
In a few days, on Monday, May 17, thirty years will have passed since the start of the Shining Path insurgency. It began as a sinister flicker of distant shadows …
This research work is a documentary study whose main objective is to examine the actions of the Sendero Luminoso group in Peru during the decade of 1980–1990. Initially, the geohistorical …
University paper. "In recent decades, society has been the victim of one of the worst scourges: terrorism, which is an expression of violence visible throughout history (conquests, wars) in its …
This article is part of the book Truth, Justice and Reparation. Challenges for Democracy and Social Coexistence, edited by the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH) and the International Institute …
This research studies "Sendero Luminoso" from its name, origin, evolution, plans, ideological and political foundation, modus operandi, civil associations working against it, and its relationship to international and domestic provisions …
The entrenchment of the Shining Path message is not something that can be explained by ideology alone. The question is "to know when and why human beings kill and torture …
An old Quechua legend tells that somewhere remote in the Andes, the mutilated body of the Inca will grow and develop in the womb of the Pacha Mama (Mother Earth), …
A work in which the author analyzes the main political and economic events related to the birth of the Partido Comunista-Sendero Luminoso, covering the period from 1965 to 1982.
Translation of the work titled Maoism in the Andes: Sendero Luminoso and the contemporary guerrilla movement in Peru, in which the author analyzes the main political and economic events related …