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.
Members of the PCP-SL ambush and assassinate four officers and a non-commissioned officer of the Peruvian Army in Satipo, Junín. This attack demonstrates that, despite the capture of the main Shining Path leaders, elements of the PCP-SL continued to operate and carry out violent actions against the forces of law …
In October 1998, witness No. 700237 was transferred to Yanamayo prison at 1:00 a.m. along with other inmates. They were taken to the airport where several soldiers were waiting for them. They were taken to the airport where several soldiers were waiting for them. When they arrived in Juliaca, they …
On November 26, 1996, retired General Rodolfo Robles was kidnapped and tried by the Supreme Council of Military Justice. Days before he had recognized Luis Sauñi as a member of the Colina Group on the program La Clave and made strong accusations against the secret operations of the SIN. His …
The General Amnesty Law for military personnel is approved, which benefits members of the armed forces accused of human rights violations. This law generates strong national and international controversy because it prevents the prosecution of cases such as La Cantuta and others.
In 1995, Congress passed a law amnesting the military, exonerating them of the multiple human rights violations committed during the internal war. This fact, together with the administrative intervention of the UNE, opened a new period in the process of violence in the university that led to an institutionalized silence. …
A military patrol is ambushed by members of the PCP-SL on a road leading to Pucallpa. Eight military personnel and six civilians are killed in the attack.
In 1993, the PCP-SL assassinated the industrial relations officer of the Julcani mine in one of its last bloody actions in the mining centers. Since then, the military and the police have been controlling the mining centers. During a workers' mobilization in the Julcani mining center, worker Juvenal Martinez was …
Military intercepted and shot at a truck carrying passengers and merchandise in the district of Sondor, Huancabamba, Piura. Apparently, the soldiers mistook them for subversives who hours earlier had raided and robbed a truck in the district of Tabacones, Cajamarca.
Military bombard the communities of Moyuna, Cayumba and El Salvador, José Crespo y Castillo district, in Leoncio Prado, Huánuco. They describe the actions as part of a confrontation called Operation Aries. According to testimonies from locals, some military patrols committed killings of unarmed civilians.
Warrant officer Roberto Flores, accompanied by twelve members of the PNP and five members of the Army, was traveling in a private car when, near Los Frailones in Cajamarca, mines planted by members of the PCP-SL exploded. All were killed in the attack.
Nine people are arbitrarily detained by the military and taken to a mine, where they are dynamited. The victims lived in Santiago de Chuco. This case exemplifies the extreme methods of violence employed by some military personnel.
In 1993, there were 53 reports of detentions in the department of Huánuco, as a result of which 178 people are missing. The military authorities were identified as the main perpetrators of these detentions-disappearances. According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, this figure was lower in urban areas but not in …
Unidentified soldiers detain the economics student Keneth Anzualdo Castro in the bus in which he was traveling from his home to the University of Callao. To this day he is still missing. This case represents one of the forced disappearances of university students.
An attempted coup d'état, organized by retired Army generals Jaime Salinas Sedó, José Pastor Vives and Víctor Ernesto Obando Salas; Major EP (r) Salvador Carmona Bernasconi; and active commanders Raúl Montero and Marcos Zárate Rotta was aborted. The operations were allegedly in charge of Major EP Hugo Ormeño Huapaya. All …
Military intercepted and shot at a truck carrying passengers and merchandise in the district of Sondor, Huancabamba, Piura. Apparently, the soldiers mistook them for subversives who hours earlier had raided and robbed a truck in the district of Tabacones, Cajamarca. This case exemplifies the fatal mistakes made by the armed …
On April 6, 1992, soldiers attacked a family in the community of Vilca. According to the testimony of a woman from the community, the soldiers beat and raped her two sisters and her mother, and then killed them. The victims were calling for help during the attack. The events occurred …
In the early morning of July 4, 1991, a military patrol arrived at the Rodeo Pampa annex and entered the homes of the Hilario family. Francisco Hilario Torres, his wife, two daughters, daughter-in-law and five minor grandchildren were arrested, as well as neighbors Ramón Hilario Morán, his wife and two …
On June 25, 1991, President Fujimori addressed a memorandum to the Minister of Defense ordering that a group of Peruvian army chiefs and officers be rewarded for having rendered efficient services in matters of National Security and defense of the high values of democracy. This document was one of the …
In April 1991, soldiers from the Misquipata base detained and tortured ronderos Higinio Quispe Pérez and Eleuterio Inga Quispilaya. This event occurred in the context of the organization of Self-Defense Committees in the Alto and Bajo Cunas area, where the Army had established a military base in April 1990 to …
Beginning in 1991, the military implemented a new detention strategy called 'la leva' in the central region of Peru. This strategy consisted of arresting all "undocumented" persons in the squares and streets, who were then transferred to the military base. Once at the military base, those who were identified were …
The Chillca Huayco massacre occurred on September 21, 1990 in the department of Ayacucho. It was perpetrated by ronderos and the military, resulting in the death of 27 people: 15 men and 12 women. The event included sexual violence against the victims. This massacre forms part of the pattern of …
In Ccachahui, Ranrapata, Chumbivilcas province, 21 soldiers dressed as peasants murdered 10 people: Balvino Huamaní Medina, Juan Huisa Pacco, Rosa Huisa Pacco, Rubén Alférez Triveño, Marcos Zacarías Huisa Llamoca, Quintín Alférez Cjuro, Telésforo Alférez Achinquipa, Marcos Torres Saihua, Julio Huamaní and José Huamaní Charccahuana. This massacre is evidence of human …
MRTA attacked a military van, killing a captain and two soldiers. In response, two leaders of the Agrarian Federation were assassinated.
In 1990, the military conducted an incursion in the Cochas district. According to the witness, the soldiers 'were disguised with colorful masks, and dressed like those chutos', evidencing the use of disguises to hide their identity during repressive operations.
On June 3, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a bomb attack against soldiers of the "Húsares de Junín" regiment in the district of Barrios Altos, Lima. The attack resulted in the death of seven soldiers. This attack took place in a context of intensification of subversive actions in the …
O.'s son was born on May 12, 1989, after her partner Julian disappeared. Julian had been taken by the military and O. never heard from him again. A community member from Ccolpa informed her that the military base had been moved to the city of Huancavelica. This birth occurred in …
The military arrived for the first time in the Canipaco valley after the event of April 12, 1989, which was the most shocking massacre in the entire Canipaco area. This military arrival was in response to the massacre perpetrated the previous day (April 11-12) in Chongos Alto, where authorities and …
On July 25, 1988, Shining Path ambushed a military patrol at the Abancay Base, resulting in the death and wounding of several military personnel. The following day, several soldiers entered the community of Cruz Pata and detained the husband of a witness. They began to beat him and brought several …
On July 7, 1988, eight seditious members of the MRTA kidnapped businessman General FAP (r) Héctor Jeri García at the main gate of the CAPSA battery factory, located in La Victoria, Lima. The kidnapping was perpetrated by a commando of eight members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. The victim …
Sonia Muñoz de Yangali was kidnapped and tortured by the military on May 18, 1988 in the province of Churcampa, Huancavelica. The military shot her in the head and, believing her dead, placed a poster with alleged slogans of PCP-SL members on her. Two months after the failed assassination attempt, …
On February 18, 1988, in the town of Lachocc, province of Huancavelica, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked an army support group. In the attack, 9 military personnel and 2 civilians who were part of the support group were killed. This event took place in the context of the intensification …
On February 18, 1988, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an ambush in the town of Lachocc, district of Acobambilla, province of Huancavelica. Nine soldiers and two civilians lost their lives in this attack. This action was part of the PCP-SL offensive in 1988, when the subversive organization had …
In January 1988, the PCP-SL organized a meeting of residents of Chongos Alto with the objective of establishing a Popular Committee. During this period of Shining Path activity in the area, 9 military personnel and 2 civilians who were part of an army support group were killed by Shining Path …
In May 1987, the military and the National Police intensified patrols in the mining centers of central Peru. This intensification of military operations occurred in the context of increasing Shining Path activity in the mining area. Law enforcement continued to arbitrarily detain union leaders during these operations. This increased military …
A group of hikers shot at a restaurant near the headquarters of the Armored Division in Rimac, specifically at the cebicheria 'El Piano'. The attack resulted in the death of two army officers and five civilians. This attack was part of the PCP-SL strategy of carrying out violent actions in …
Around 1987, a female witness started a business selling beer and soda in her home in San José de Secce (Ayacucho) in order to meet her needs. One day, around 3:00 in the afternoon, the soldiers arrived to consume the beer as they usually did. Subsequently, the witness was the …
A witness started a business selling beer and soda at her home in San José de Secce to meet her needs. One day, around 3:00 in the afternoon, soldiers arrived to drink beer as usual. The witness was the victim of rape and became pregnant as a result. The perpetrator …
According to testimony 200920 , the victims in both testimonies became pregnant as a result of rapes that occurred in 1987. The document mentions multiple cases in the district of Santillana, Province of Huanta, Department of Ayacucho during that year. In one of the cases detailed, a woman started a …
In October 1986, the military killed 13 villagers in the towns of Pomatambo and Parcco Alto in the province of Vilcashuamán. This event occurred in the context of the military counteroffensive against the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the region. The event took place during the period of intensification of the internal …
On July 24, 1986, at approximately 10:00 p.m., members of the Shining Path murdered Lucas Terris Acevedo, president of the Huayao community, stabbing him several times in the chest. At three o'clock in the morning, the military under the command of Lieutenant TRAIDO entered Huayao, taking the corpse. Then they …
On June 23, 1986, the military arrived at the house of Teófilo Rímac Capcha, leader of the FOCEP (Frente Obrero Campesino y Estudiantil del Perú), whom they arrested along with others and transferred to the Carmen Chico military base. He was the only one who never left the military base. …
On October 22, 1985, approximately twenty members of the military entered the home of a declarant in the district of Miraflores. During the raid, they detained the affiant and her brother, who was a municipal agent. The military also beat the affiant's mother during the raid. This case forms part …
In October 1984, soldiers disappeared 4 peasants and killed 6 peasants in Huayllay, Luricocha district, Huanta province. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the area, during the period of greatest violence in the provinces of Huanta, Huamanga and La Mar. The …
General EP Carlos Briceño Zevallos, together with the main commanders of the Armed Forces and seconded by a hard-line sector of the ruling party, declared before public opinion a peculiar alliance between the retired Velasquist military and the PCP-SL. This statement was in reality a response to the attacks that …
On July 7, 1984, Rigoberto Tenorio Roca, 2nd non-commissioned officer of the Peruvian Army and pre-military instruction teacher at the Gonzales Vigil school in Huanta, was intervened by Marines when he was traveling from Huanta to Huamanga in a bus belonging to the Hidalgo company, at approximately 2:00 p.m. in …
In June 1984, soldiers murdered eight villagers in the town of Rosario, Ayna district, La Mar province. This event occurred during the period of greatest violence in the Apurimac River Valley, when the Armed Forces had taken control of the area under the Political Military Command. The event took place …
Six armed and hooded soldiers violently entered the affiant's home and took one of her sons. The affiant was able to observe the vehicle where he was taken and later identified him at the Casa Rosada. A tall, white-skinned and robust military man grabbed her and threatened her. The affiant …
In February 1984, 17 villagers from Viscachayocc, in the district of Pampa Cangallo, were disappeared by soldiers from the Cangallo base. This event took place in the context of the intensification of violence in the area during 1984, when the Armed Forces carried out operations against alleged PCP-SL support bases. …
In January 1984, military personnel viciously beat John Broadle, who was Superintendent of the Centromin Peru Mining Company at the Cobriza mining center. The aggression occurred after Broadle protested against the blowing up of the metal bridge by the military. This incident occurred in the context of the installation of …
During 1984 and 1985, members of the Vilca military base committed systematic sexual violations against local women. The mayor of the district received verbal complaints about sexual abuses committed by law enforcement officers against daughters and nieces of neighbors. An average of two rapes per month were carried out, with …
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