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 June 22, 1986, five engineers were murdered in Minas Canaria, in the province of Victor Fajardo. This event occurred in a context of generalized violence in the area, where the Canarias mine had played an important role as a supplier of dynamite for the subversives. Previously, in July 1982, …
On March 18, 1982, subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Minas Canarias police post in the province of Victor Fajardo. This attack was part of a series of sustained assaults against police posts during 1982, aimed at pushing back the police and generating a 'power vacuum' in the countryside. …
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