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.
In 1998, the Peruvian Navy withdrew support from the Self-Defense Committees (CAD's) in the Ucayali region. This decision was due to the fact that the CAD's became directly dependent on the Prefecture, thus changing the command and supervision structure of these organizations. The CAD's had been formed and supported by …
On April 2, 1995, members of the Navy entered the town of San Alejandro as part of Operation Shark IV. Between 5:30 and 6 in the morning they arrived at the Pomatanta family's home looking for 17-year-old Indalecio. After interrogating and brutally beating him and asking him for weapons, they …
One affiant was detained on the premises of the Technical University of El Callao on January 22, 1992 by members of the Peruvian Navy. Subsequently, in October 1993, she was again threatened with rape on the premises of the JECOTE in El Callao. These events are part of a pattern …
Javier Roca Casas, student at the University of Callao and press and propaganda secretary of the Federated Center, disappeared near his home. Members of the Navy acknowledged that on that day they carried out a search operation in the area, although they did not acknowledge having detained Javier Roca.
A female detainee was the victim of rape at the Callao Naval Base in May 1993. The events occurred during her detention by members of the Peruvian Navy. The victim became pregnant as a result of the rape suffered during her detention. This case is part of a systematic pattern …
Beginning in 1993, the drug cartels significantly decreased their influence in the Tamaya River and Imiria Lake areas. This decline was the result of increased repressive actions by the Navy and the anti-drug policy promoted by the Peruvian government. By this time, the military and political presence of the PCP-SL …
Carlos Ríos Fernández, head of the section of Workers, Neighborhoods and Workers (OBT) and member of the leadership cell of Socorro Popular of the PCP-SL, was arrested by the Peruvian Navy. Ríos Fernández was the political commander of the entire OBT and his capture took place in the Bocanegra human …
A female affiant was arrested on the premises of the Technical University of El Callao on January 22, 1992 by members of the Peruvian Navy. During her detention she was threatened with rape. She was later transferred to a police station in El Callao, where she was again threatened with …
In 1992, the Peruvian Navy assumed command of the Political-Military Command of Ucayali, marking an important change in the counter-subversive strategy in the region. This change coincided with a new strategy based on winning over the PCP-SL's social base through civic actions that demonstrated to the civilian population that the …
In 1992, the Peruvian Navy successfully formed a Self-Defense Committee (CAD) in the hamlet of Huipoca, located in Padre Abad. This was one of the places where the Navy implemented its new counter-subversive strategy based on winning over the PCP-SL's social base through civic actions. It was the first time …
President Alberto Fujimori gave a speech on Navy Day where he spoke about the government's new anti-subversive policy. In his speech, he severely questioned what he called "the terrorists [sic] infiltrated in pseudo humanitarian and human rights organizations". This speech came days after the President described human rights organizations as …
On April 26, 1991, in Aguaytía, province of Padre Abad, department of Ucayali, three people were arrested and subsequently disappeared: the brother, cousin and partner of the plaintiff. The facts were perpetrated by members of the Peruvian Navy. The affiant gave her testimony narrating these events that directly affected her …
The Puerto Alegre Self-Defense Committee (CAD) was formed on March 21, 1991, with logistical and technical advice from the Peruvian Navy. This CAD played a fundamental role in the counter-subversive struggle and in the defeat of PCP-SL in Lake Imiria and in some areas of the Tamaya River, due to …
In 1991, with the change in the Peruvian Navy's counter-subversive strategy, a Self-Defense Committee (CAD) was formed in Masisea with advice from the Navy. This CAD was part of a broader strategy to win over the social base of PCP-SL in the Ucayali region and its tributaries. The Masisea ADC …
In 1991, the armed forces, particularly the Peruvian Navy, implemented a significant change in their counter-subversive strategy in Ucayali. This new strategy was based on winning over the social base of the PCP-SL through civic actions that demonstrated to the civilian population that the armed forces respected the lives of …
In 1991, the Peruvian Navy took over full command of the Political-Military Command of Ucayali, which had been initially established on June 1, 1989 when the department was declared in a state of emergency. This change implied a change in the counter-subversive strategy, ceasing to carry out bloody operations in …
In 1991, due to the gradual change in the Navy's counter-subversive strategy, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso began to retreat to some areas along the Ucayali River and lost control of the villages along the Federico Basadre Highway (CFB). This change of strategy implied that the Navy stopped carrying out bloody operations …
The Regional Directorate (DR) of the Eastern Front of the MRTA continued its operations in Ucayali during 1991, although with limited political and military relevance after the events of February 9, 1989, which disarticulated the peasant, popular and political movements in the region. The organization's work remained active until 1991, …
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 …
A woman was raped by members of the Peruvian Navy in the town of Cayas Chico, district of Huancayo. The victim later reported that she became pregnant as a result of the rape. In her testimony, she stated: 'it must have happened during the rape that the marines raped me …
Between March and April 1990, the Peruvian Navy carried out counter-subversive operations on the Ucayali River in order to prevent armed actions by the PCP-SL during the electoral process. During 1989 and 1990, the Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled on the banks of the …
During the 1990 elections, Shining Path supporters stationed themselves on an esplanade near Puerto Alegre to prevent, under threat of death, the inhabitants of Tamaya and Imiria from going to Masisea to vote. This action was part of the PCP-SL's territorial control strategy in the area, which had established Open …
The Peruvian Navy carried out an ambush against MRTA militants in the Boca del Pachitea area. This military action resulted in the death of several young men who were part of the Territorial Army of the Eastern Front of MRTA. The event occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations carried …
On July 20, 1989, the Supreme Council of Military Justice definitively dismissed the process initiated by the Navy regarding the events at El Frontón prison, without finding criminal responsibility in the members of the Navy who participated in the debellation of the riot of June 1986.
On June 1, 1989, the Peruvian State declared Ucayali an emergency zone, installing a Political-Military Command led by the Navy. This measure was taken in response to the problems generated by the hyperinflation of 1989, which prevented the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA from paying peasants, causing regional strikes organized …
On June 1, 1989, the Peruvian State declared Ucayali an emergency zone and installed a Political-Military Command led by the Navy. This measure was taken in response to the problems generated by the hyperinflation of 1989, which prevented the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA from paying peasants for their production, …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Peruvian Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. They used helicopter gunships to bomb different villages, considering them, a priori, as 'red zones'. Pucallpa's aguajales became the walking cemeteries of dozens …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. The presence of PCP-SL in the Ucayali River occurred between the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990. PCP-SL appeared in the Tamaya …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Peruvian Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. They used helicopter gunships to bomb different villages, considering them, a priori, as 'red zones'. Pucallpa's aguajales became the walking cemeteries of dozens …
Hugo Bustios Saavedra was violently murdered in Huanta in November 1988. His death occurred at the hands of the Peruvian Navy. This case is mentioned in the context of the selective assassinations that characterized the period, in contrast to the massive attacks on civilian populations of the previous period. The …
On April 13, 1988, a column of forty heavily armed PCP-Sendero Luminoso members escorted by hundreds of peasants from the local force attacked Pichiwillca, the main DECAS base in the Apurimac River Valley. With the help of the ronderos of Anchihuay who immediately came to the defense of Pichiwillca, and …
Admiral AP Gerónimo Cafferata Marazzi, former Commander General of the Navy and president of the Banco Industrial, died victim of a terrorist attack on October 14, 1986. The attack was part of a series of selective assassinations perpetrated by subversive groups during that period. This event took place in a …
In October 1986, a Shining Path commando mortally wounded Vice Admiral Geronimo Cafferata, former Commander General of the Navy. This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's campaign of selective annihilations against authorities and government officials.
Members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Rear Admiral Carlos Ponce Canessa as he was leaving his home in Jr. Jiménez Pacheco No. 157. The hikers, made up of three men and two women from the special detachment, had been following the victim closely. They shot him with a machine gun …
During the riot at the Frontón Prison in 1986, a debellation operation (riot suppression) took place, resulting in fatalities among law enforcement officers. Three members of the Peruvian Navy died during the operations to control the riot. This event is part of the context of the internal armed conflict in …
On August 4, 1985, the military murdered and buried seven civilians in mass graves in Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. These people had previously been detained in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, where members of the Navy were stationed. Around August 16, approximately fifty people detained in that place were …
On July 7, 1985, mass graves were found in the community of Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. Around August 16, 1984, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of Pucayacu. On August 22, 1984, …
On August 24, 1984, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces issued an official communiqué about the discovery of a mass grave in Pucayacu. The communiqué suggested that the bodies found in the grave were those of members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed in confrontations with the Armed Forces. Two …
On August 22, 1984, a mass grave was found in Pucayacu with fifty unrecognizable corpses, as they had apparently been burned with acid. Around August 16, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of …
Around August 16, 1984, members of the Navy, who were stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, transferred fifty people who were detained there to the town of Pucayacu. On August 22 a mass grave was found in Pucayacu with fifty unrecognizable corpses, as they had apparently been burned with …
On August 15, 1984, the residents of Pago de Llansa went to the town of Luricocha to take a census at the request of the police. Cirilo Barboza Sánchez and Alejandro Gutiérrez Taype were separated by members of the Luricocha police and taken inside the police station. When the family …
On August 11, 1984, Victor Rivas Ventura was kidnapped by a group of people in civilian clothes while he was at his home. He was arrested in the presence of his mother and sister. The kidnappers were hooded men, wearing ponchos, tall in stature. A neighbor reported that his brother …
On August 10, 1984, 42 community members from Culluchaca were detained by members of the 'Montoneros' (Self-Defense Committees) from Patasucro, Cachas, Janes and members of the Marine Infantry. The Montoneros showed up heavily armed with sticks, knives, and rapiers, looted belongings, grain, clothing, kitchen utensils and animals, and took the …
At approximately 6:00 a.m. on August 2, 1984, a contingent of Marines arrested several people while they were celebrating the feast of St. James in the home of Concepción de la Cruz Urpay. They were arrested Teófilo Munárriz Velásquez, Concepción de la Cruz Urpay, her daughter Adela Hidalgo de la …
On August 2, 1984, journalist Jaime Boris Ayala Sulca, 22 years old, correspondent of the newspaper La República and host of a program on Radio Huanta 2000, went to the Navy Base at the Huanta Stadium to complain about the raid on his mother's house that took place that morning. …
Jaime Ayala Sulca, correspondent of the newspaper La República, disappeared after being detained at the Peruvian Navy in Huanta, Ayacucho. This case became emblematic of the repression against journalists during the internal armed conflict. The detention was carried out by members of the Navy and his disappearance was later denied …
Between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. on August 1, 1984, a Navy patrol violently broke into the Callqui Evangelical Presbyterian Church where 27 people, including 10 minors, were worshiping. The troops entered shooting in the air, formed two lines with guns pointed at them and selected six adult males. They took …
On July 27, 1984, at approximately 2:00 a.m., a contingent of Marines violently entered the home located at Jiron Chavez Gavilan 329, Huanta and arrested Graciela Lopez Medina. The family was sleeping when the Marines tried to break the door. When they were unsuccessful, they entered through the roof, broke …
On July 19, 1984, Santiago Felipe Loayza Cahuana, teacher and Director of Girls' Educational Center No. 38271 in the Huamanguilla district, was detained by members of the Peruvian Investigative Police (former PIP) and the Marine Infantry when he was on his way to the city of Huamanga with his son …
On July 19, 1984, Marines detained thirty peasants from various villages in the Ayacucho area. After the detention, the Marines murdered most of these peasants. This event occurred in the context of an escalation of violence that had begun on June 22 of that year, with multiple military operations in …
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