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.
The testimony documents the murder of the declarant's husband in Cachicoto, a town located in the district of Monzón, province of Huamalies, department of Huánuco. The case was recorded in December 2002 during interviews conducted by the CVR in Lima. This event is part of the context of violence that …
During the internal armed conflict in Monzón, Huamalies, Huánuco, cases of detention and sexual violence against women were recorded. Most of the sexual abuses were imputed to members of the Armed Forces, especially on those they detained, as part of the torture inflicted. The victims showed their enormous pain and …
Testimony collected in Lima during October 2002, where a woman narrates the murder of her husband in Cachicoto, Monzón, Huamalies, Huánuco. This testimony is part of the documentation of cases of violence perpetrated during the internal armed conflict. The affiant provides information on the violent events that affected her family …
During September 2002, the TRC collected multiple testimonies in the department of Huanuco on various acts of violence that occurred during the internal armed conflict. The testimonies include cases of forced disappearances, murders and sexual violence perpetrated mainly by State agents. Among the documented cases is the testimony of the …
The text of the CVR report mentions the Monzon District in the context of a military base located in that area during 1998. This reference appears in a section of the report that documents cases of sexual violence and other human rights violations that occurred at different military bases in …
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 …
The declarants tell of the detention and murder of their husband and son. The detention occurred on August 11, 1989 and the executions took place on September 18, 1989 in Palo Acero, Monzón, Huamalies, Huánuco. The testimony was provided by relatives of the victims who recounted these acts of violence.
The affiants tell of the detention and murder of their husband and son in Palo Acero, Monzón, Huamalies, Huánuco. The detention occurred on August 11, 1989 and the executions took place on September 18, 1989. This case represents a period of more than a month between the detention of the …
In an ambush on a military patrol at the Rondos bridge, 13 soldiers were killed, generating a brutal response in which 20 presumed Shining Path members lost their lives, although according to family members, most of them were peasants who were not part of the subversion.
Sendero took the town of Monzon, located 62 kilometers from Tingo Maria, and after gathering the population and rallying them, destroyed the municipality's belongings and documents. Since then and for several years only the workers were the ones who administered the municipality.
In February 1986, the city of Monzon was taken by the PCP-SL. During the raid, an assembly was held to rally the population. The subversives destroyed the belongings and documents of the Municipality, which from then on was run only by its workers. This seizure took place in the context …
A group of 60 hikers raided the village of Agua Blanca, where a Self-Defense Committee had been organized under the leadership of peasant Andrés Cornelio Castañeda. They surprised and killed him, after a 'popular trial' in the soccer field, along with 15 other people. They went on a rampage against …
On January 1, 1986, a group of sixty PCP-SL subversives raided the village of Agua Blanca, where a Self-Defense Committee had been organized under the leadership of peasant Andrés Cornelio Castañeda. In a popular trial, Castañeda was killed along with 15 other people. The peasant leader was tortured and brutally …
In 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an attack on the Coca Reduction and Eradication Project in Alto Huallaga (CORAH) in Monzon. This was the second attack on CORAH installations, following one in late 1983 in another locality. The attack resulted in the death of 19 project workers. This event …
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