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 July 1992, the lifeless body of mining leader Donato Bernal was found near the Peruvian Club of La Oroya. The murder occurred in a context of intense repression against mining union leaders in the central region of Peru. The alleged perpetrators of the murder are allegedly members of the …
Government workers went on strike in several sectors including Social Security, the Judicial Branch, the Attorney General's Office and the Ministry of Transportation. In the private sector, miners carried out staggered strikes. The workers of the country's potable water services and the public workers grouped in the CITE also went …
In the early 1990s, Huancavelica's mining unions experienced a significant weakening as a result of political violence. Shining Path attacks against union leaders, combined with arbitrary detentions by the military intelligence service, ended up weakening union organization in most of the region's mining centers. This weakening process took place in …
On November 7, 1989, the Peruvian government declared the strike call by the Mining Federation illegal. Simultaneously, the National Police raided several homes of workers and union leaders in the mining center of La Oroya. As part of the repressive measures, the right to assembly in the mining centers was …
The secretary general of the miners' union, Ceferino Requis, was assassinated by members of the PCP-SL in front of hundreds of delegates during an assembly of mine workers in Huancavelica. This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy of eliminating union leaders who did not align themselves with their …
On March 2, 1989, the PCP-SL shot and killed Seferino Requis, one of the most representative union leaders in Cerro de Pasco. Requis was a leader trained in the Peasant and Student Workers Front of Peru (FOCEP). The hikers strategically positioned themselves in the place where he was and managed …
On October 17, 1988, an indefinite national strike of mining and metallurgical workers began in Peru. This strike took place in a context of political violence in which the PCP-Sendero Luminoso had assassinated mining leaders who opposed the strikes, such as Fidencio Coronel in La Oroya and Alejandro Patiño Flores …
On October 17, 1988, the day the national mining strike called by the Federation of Miners, Metallurgists and Steelworkers of Peru (FNTMMSP) began, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Alejandro Patiño, former leader of the Morococha union. Patiño was an aprista (member of the PAP, the ruling party at the time) and …
Alejandro Patiño, former leader of the Morococha Mine Workers Union (STMM) and an APRA militant, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso on October 17, 1988. This assassination took place in the context of important mobilizations and strikes of mining workers demanding the recognition of the single national miners' list proposed …
On October 17, 1988, mining leader Alejandro Patiño Flores was shot in the head and killed in Morococha. The assassination was attributed to alleged Shining Path members of the PCP-SL. Patiño Flores had opposed the national mining strike, as had Fidencio Coronel in La Oroya, who was also murdered the …
On October 17, 1988, an indefinite national strike of mining and metallurgical workers began in Peru. This strike took place in a context of political violence where the PCP-SL (Shining Path) had been carrying out attacks against mining infrastructure and assassinating union leaders who opposed the stoppages. On the same …
On July 21, 1988, a national mining strike was held with the participation of the great majority of the mining workers, who blocked the central highway. During this demonstration there was a confrontation between members of the National Police and a small group of mothers who had joined the strike. …
In May 1987, the Shining Path assassinated union leader Carlos Melo in Cerro de Pasco. After executing him, the Shining Path left a poster on his body with the message "This is how traitors die". This murder was part of a series of selective executions that the PCP-SL carried out …
The mining leader Teófilo Rímac Capcha was arrested by the military at the Carmen Chico Base in Cerro de Pasco. This arrest occurred in a context of intensified military operations in the mining centers of the region, where the armed forces carried out violent raids on workers' homes in order …
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 March 19, 1986, during a popular demonstration in Cerro de Pasco, mining leader Tomás Miranda was assassinated by members of the Shining Path. This assassination occurred in the context of the political violence affecting the mining centers of the central highlands of Peru. The event was part of a …
On July 9, 1982, miners from Canarias, in the province of Victor Fajardo, were killed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The victims were accused of being informers. The Canarias mine played an important role in the area for a long time as a supplier of dynamite for the subversives. This assassination …
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