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 June 2002, the TRC conducted focus groups with women in Accomarca, Vilcashuamán, Ayacucho, and took field notes from interviews with witnesses of the Accomarca massacre. Women participants shared testimonies about violence experienced since childhood, describing how exposure to violence had affected them psychologically, manifesting aggression and other traumatic effects. …
Between June and July 1994, the Shining Path PCP killed around seventy natives of the Quenteroni community. The victims were people the subversives considered useless for work or for the war, including children, the sick and the elderly. This act of extreme violence occurred in the context of the war …
Between June and July 1994, the PCP-SL murdered around 70 natives it held captive in Quenteroni, located in the upper zone of the native community of Samaniato, in the Ene River basin. This event occurred in the context of the absolute control that the PCP-SL had achieved over the Ene …
Approximately 40 army troops entered the Shapingo area in April 1994, resulting in a massacre. During the military incursion, sexual violence against local women was reported. One woman who survived the massacre reported that a woman was raped and then released. This event is part of a pattern of behavior …
In April 1994, the Army entered the town of Moyuna. During this military incursion, the women of this locality were victims of sexual violence, torture and executions. This event was part of a pattern of behavior identified by the CVR in which members of the Army committed rape against women …
On March 29, 1994 in Cayumba Chico, army troops arbitrarily executed the father, mother and six-year-old sister of a female witness. The massacre included sexual violence against the women prior to the executions. According to the documented pattern, the military raped the women prior to executing them. This event is …
On March 29, 1994, army troops arbitrarily executed the father, mother and six-year-old sister of a witness in Cayumba Chico. The younger sister was raped before being executed. This case is part of a pattern of sexual violence associated with arbitrary executions during military incursions in rural areas. The witness …
On September 20, 1993, the Peruvian government denounced to the UN the massacre committed by the PCP-SL in the Tsiriari valley. This denunciation was made two days after the news of the massacre, which occurred on August 18, 1993, was disseminated by several media outlets. The Congress of the Republic …
On September 11, 1993, a group of Ashaninka ronderos entered the Delta de Pichanaki annex and killed ten settlers, leaving two others wounded because they did not want to organize themselves into counter-subversive patrols. This event illustrates the human rights violations committed by the native patrols in their attempt to …
More than 200 hikers took over the villages of Bella, Inti, Rondos, Agua Blanca and Palo Acero. For hours they gathered the villagers in their respective places, located the alleged informers, assailants and traffickers who were cheating the small drug producers, gathering 24 people in the Lota hamlet, where they …
In September 1993, more than 200 subversives of the Shining Path PCP took over several villages in the Monzon valley. During this action, the subversives located suspected informers, criminals and coca intermediaries, approximately 24 people in total. These people were killed in a bloody public act. This event was part …
In September 1993, a group of members of the self-defense committee of the San Fernando de Meritori annex in the neighboring district of Rio Negro in the province of Satipo killed 10 inhabitants of the Delta Pichanaki annex because the community refused to organize itself into self-defense committees. This was …
A column of approximately 200 Shining Path elements attacked eight colonist camps in the province of Satipo. They killed more than 55 people, including natives and settlers, and cut off the ears of 14 children. This massive attack exemplifies the brutality of the Shining Path against civilian populations, including the …
Members of the PCP-SL murdered 65 inhabitants of the Tsiriari valley in Mazamari, Junín, in retaliation for the formation of Self-Defense Committees. Although it was known as an Asháninka massacre, of the total number of victims, 21 were Nomatsiguenga natives and the rest were settlers. This is one of the …
On August 18, 1993, three Shining Path columns, each composed of approximately 70 settlers and natives, entered eight communities in the Tsiriari valley (six colonists and two Asháninka). The massacre began around 4:00 p.m. in the Nomatsiguenga Tahuantinsuyo community, where twenty-one people were killed, including children, men and women. The …
Between 150 and 300 people, accompanied by Asháninka natives, entered eight communities in the Tsiriari Valley, killing 72 villagers with bladed weapons, including 16 minors. They left 10 wounded, 8 of them minors. Rape and looting were committed. Initially attributed to Sendero Luminoso, it was later denounced the participation of …
On August 18, 1993, three groups of alleged hikers, between one hundred and three hundred men, women and children, settlers and natives, entered seven communities in the Tsiriari valley. The communities attacked were Monterrico, San Isidro, Sol de Oro, Union Cubaro, San Francisco de Cubaro and Santa Isabel (colonists) and …
In August 1993, three groups of between 100 and 300 people, composed of subversives and masa (settlers and natives of all ages), attacked seven communities in the Tsiriari valley. During these assaults they killed 36 settlers and 21 natives, totaling 57 fatalities. The attackers took food, household goods, medicines and …
In August 1993, some 200 subversives of the Shining Path PCP, among them natives, attacked the communities of Santa Isabel, Monte Rico, Jerusalén, San Isidro, Tahuantinsuyo and Irriari in the central jungle. During the assault, in addition to murdering the authorities and teachers of these communities, the subversives committed acts …
A PCP-SL column kills 12 community members of Matucana Alta - Trigolini, La Mar, Ayacucho, and leaves four others wounded. This massacre is part of the Shining Path's campaign of terror against peasant communities.
There was an attack on the village of Canchara, in the province of Abancay. They killed the cattle, burned the houses and raped several women. This attack shows the brutality of violence against civilian populations.
On October 21, 1992, a massacre occurred in Sincos, Jauja district, in which 8 people were killed. According to the report, the victims could have been students from the National University of Central Peru (UNCP). This event took place in the context of 1992, when violence reached its highest peak …
Between October 9 and 10, 1992, at approximately 10:00 p.m., 100 hikers, including men and women, surrounded the community of Huayao. In the early morning of October 10, they killed 53 people who were in their homes or trying to flee. The hikers used firearms, axes and explosives. They burned …
On July 18, 1992, a military raid on the student residence of the Enrique Guzmán y Valle University (La Cantuta) ended with the kidnapping and disappearance of nine students and a professor of the university. This event occurred in the context of the state of emergency and the intensification of …
In the early morning of July 18, 1992, nine students (Juan Gabriel Mariño, Bertila Lozano Torres, Dora Oyague Fierro, Robert Teodoro Espinoza, Marcelino Rosales Cárdenas, Felipe Flores Chipana, Luis Enrique Ortiz Perea, Armando Amaro Cóndor and Heráclides Pablo Meza) and professor Hugo Muñoz Sánchez, were kidnapped from the University Housing …
The explosion of a car bomb in the center of Miraflores, on Tarata Street, left 20 dead and 132 wounded. The impact of the attack in the media spread panic and a feeling of insecurity among the public. The same day a series of attacks took place in other sectors …
In July 1992, the Shining Path PCP murdered eight people in the community of Pallcca. This event occurred in the context of the last acts of violence by the PCP-SL in the Ayacucho region, shortly before the capture of Abimael Guzmán in September of that year. The attack took place …
In July 1992, the paramilitary group Colina carried out an operation at the Enrique Guzmán y Valle National University, known as 'La Cantuta'. This operation involved the extrajudicial execution of nine students and a university professor. The events took place in a context of extreme violence and after the self-coup …
Members of the PCP-SL enter the district of Huamanquiquia in Huamanga disguised as military personnel. They gather the population and ask them to recognize two members of the PCP-SL. Those who do so are rounded up, beaten with sticks and stones, and have their throats slit with knives and axes. …
On June 19, 1992, subversives took over the town of Dos de Mayo in the district of Mazamari, province of Satipo. During this incursion, the subversives killed 7 villagers. This attack took place in the context of the intense activity of the PCP-SL in the province of Satipo during 1992, …
On June 19, 1992, subversives took over the town of Mazamari-Dos de Mayo in the province of Satipo. During this armed incursion, the subversives killed 7 villagers. This event occurred in the context of 1992, when violence reached its highest peak in the central region, with dynamite attacks, blackouts, sabotage, …
The police intervention in the Canto Grande prison took place between June 6 and 9, 1992, culminating in the assassination of prominent cadres of Socorro Popular of the PCP-SL. This action was one of the triggers of the wave of Shining Path violence that culminated in the attack on Tarata …
In the early morning of May 17, 1992, a contingent of PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants, dressed in military uniforms to look like army soldiers, took over the town of Quiparacra. The subversives murdered seven people, among them a councilwoman, in the presence of the villagers. The victims were Isabel Alcántara (councilwoman), …
On May 14, 1992, a contingent of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered three annexes of the district of Ulcumayo, in the province and department of Junin. This action was part of a series of terrorist incursions that the PCP-SL carried out in May 1992 in various districts of the area, as …
On May 13, 1992, a contingent of the PCP-SL entered the town of Chupaca, in the district of Paucartambo. During this incursion, the Shining Path militants slit the throats of villagers and also murdered Alberto Miranda Córdova and Porfirio Fuero Anco. This action was part of a series of violent …
The police operation known as "Mudanza Uno" (Move One) began in the Shining Path wards of the Miguel Castro Castro prison in order to transfer more than 100 women to the Santa Monica prison. Given the refusal of the PCP-SL inmates and the resistance, the operation lasted four days and …
Between May 6 and 9, 1992, the National Police and the Army carried out the operation Mudanza 1 to transfer inmates from Pavilion 1-A. The militarized intervention resulted in the extrajudicial execution of 42 inmates and hundreds of wounded. The forces of order used explosives, gases, long-range rifles and grenades. …
On March 19, 1992, about thirty villagers fleeing from the Alto Cuchara hamlet because of the bombings encountered a military patrol near Pozo Rico. The military separated the women and children and executed them with gunfire, first the men, then the women and finally the children. After a month, Benito …
On March 10, 1992, a commando patrol of the Peruvian Army from Lima entered the hamlet of Bambú and killed everyone working in the harvest. Antonio Bazán Isminio had hired twelve people to help him harvest cocoa and bananas. The murders were committed in retaliation for the deaths of some …
On March 5, 1992, in the villages of Pihuan, Jurau-Cochas, in Cajatambo, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 10 people for supporting the formation of peasant patrols. The victims were: Máximo Herbozo Tolentino, Cristina Morales Blas, Elena Herbozo Morales, Eusebio Tolentino Navarro, Cirilo Tolentino Medina, Jorge Estrada Mendoza, Perpetua Chavarría López, Máximo …
In March 1992, the Shining Path PCP murdered eight people in a high school in Huancayo. This occurred in a context of intense violence in the Central region, where the PCP-SL had increased its violent actions against the civilian population. The attack on the high school was part of a …
In March 1992, Army troops from the Counter-Subversive Base No. 313, reinforced by the Command Battalion No. 19, carried out Operation Spoon. Approximately 900 men participated. The objective was to teach the villagers a lesson so that they would not support the Shining Path. They bombed the area with helicopter …
On February 8, 1992, a subversive incursion in the community of Ulcumayo resulted in the death of 15 peasants. This attack took place in the context of the intensification of violence in the Junín region during the 1989-1992 period, when the PCP-SL was developing its V Plan to "Develop Bases …
On February 8, 1992, a subversive incursion in the community of Ulcumayo, Junín, resulted in the death of 15 peasants. This event occurred in the context of 1992, when violence reached its highest peak in the central region. Dynamite attacks, blackouts, sabotage, assassinations, disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions and guerrilla …
On February 2, 1992, a PCP-SL contingent of approximately fifty men entered the Chinchiaco and Marcapata ranches in the town of Tama, Ulcumayo district, in Junín. This attack was part of a wider campaign by the PCP-SL in 1992 to secure a strategic corridor in the area, carrying out a …
On February 2, 1992, a PCP-SL contingent of approximately 50 men carried out a series of violent raids in the towns of Tambillo, Auquimarca and Huallamayo. This action was part of a caravan of terror against the system of authorities, annihilating people supposedly opposed to their cause. In total, 21 …
Combined forces of the Army and National Police raided the community of Apiza in order to search for members of the PCP-SL. Approximately 100 troops under the command of Lieutenant EP 'Aquiles' gathered 32 people including men, women and children in a house owned by Víctor Penadillo. They interrogated them …
On November 3, 1991, the Colina detachment executed fifteen people in Barrios Altos, Lima. The operation was carried out by heavily armed Peruvian army personnel wearing ski masks. The victims were executed indiscriminately with firearms with silencers, regardless of sex or age. The indiscriminate fire killed 11 adult males, 3 …
On November 3, 1991, the Colina Group murdered 16 people who were participating in a pollada in Barrios Altos, leaving four others seriously wounded. This was the first event for which the Colina Group became known to the public. The Colina Group was a death squad that operated as part …
In November 1991, 37 peasants were massacred in the district of Santo Tomás de Pata, province of Angaraes, department of Huancavelica. The victims included women, the elderly and children. This event was part of the context of political violence that affected the country during the internal armed conflict. The massacre …
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