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 October 2, 2002, the National Court of Terrorism, Criminal Organizations and Gangs, by Resolution declared that there was merit to proceed to oral trial against those accused of the kidnapping of Raul Hiraoka Torres. The process continued with hearings between the accused, during which Raul Hiraoka Torres ratified his …
In-depth interview conducted in Huancayo documenting the disappearances of MRTA militants in the urban area during 1991, 1992 and 1993. The testimony indicates that the MRTA was hit hard in the urban zone, with many simultaneous disappearances, especially student members of the MRTA. The interviewee mentions that many good cadres …
In-depth interview conducted in Curimarca with a woman resident of Huertas who witnessed armed confrontations in the area. The interviewee testified about the disappearance of the MRTA after the confrontations in the region. According to her account, after the confrontation, the MRTA was never seen again in the area, although …
On January 31, 2002, the Ad-Hoc Provincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office for Terrorism cases issued its opinion in which it stated that the criminal responsibility of the defendants for the commission of the crime against Public Tranquility in its modality of Terrorism, related to the kidnapping of Raúl Hiraoka Torres, has …
On May 14, 2001, in compliance with the order of the Inter-American Court, the Supreme Council of Military Justice referred the investigations to the Ad-Hoc Provincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office for Terrorism Cases. The prosecutor's office filed criminal charges against Jaime Francisco Castillo Petruzzi, Lautaro Enrique Mellado Saavedra, Alejandro Luis Astorga …
On May 30, 1999, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a decision on the complaint filed by Chilean citizens who were members of the MRTA. The Court established that their right to due process had been violated in the proceedings against them in Peru, and ordered a new trial …
After its defeat in the Mantaro valley in 1989, the MRTA retreated to the province of Chanchamayo where it managed to rebuild its ranks. During the period up to 1998, the subversive group engaged in constant confrontations with military patrols in which deaths were recorded on both sides. Gradually, the …
On December 17, 1996, a commando of 14 MRTA members stormed the Japanese ambassador's residence, holding 74 hostages for several months. The crisis ended on April 22, 1997 with a military intervention that resulted in 17 fatalities: Supreme Court member Carlos Giusti, two army officers and the 14 emerretistas who …
The hostage crisis ends with the military intervention that achieves the release of the hostages kidnapped in the Japanese ambassador's residence. There are 17 victims: the member of the Supreme Court, Carlos Giusti Acuña; two officers of the EP; and the 14 MRTA subversives who assaulted the residence. After the …
On April 22, 1997 at 3:27 p.m., Operation Chavin de Huantar was launched to rescue 71 hostages from the Japanese ambassador's residence. The operation was led by EP Colonel José Williams Zapata with 143 commandos. Explosives were detonated under the room where the ambassadors were playing soccer. Magistrate Carlos Giusti …
The hostage crisis that began on December 17, 1996, when a commando of 14 MRTA members stormed the residence of Japanese Ambassador Morihisa Aoki, ended with a military intervention. The operation resulted in 17 fatalities: Supreme Court vowel Carlos Giusti, two Army officers and the 14 emerretistas who had stormed …
On April 22, 1997, the Chavin de Huantar operation allowed the release of the hostages that the MRTA held captive for 4 months in the residence of the Japanese ambassador. There are indications being investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of arbitrary executions of some MRTA subversives who surrendered or …
On February 13, 1997, the Supreme Council of Military Justice confirmed the sentence of the Special Military Tribunal of the FAP of October 5, 1996 against the MRTA members involved in the kidnapping of Raul Hiraoka Torres.
A commando of 14 MRTA members stormed the residence of Japanese Ambassador Morihisa Aoki on December 17, 1996. The hostage crisis lasted for more than four months. On April 22, 1997, the crisis ended with a military intervention that left 17 victims: Supreme Court member Carlos Giusti, two Army officers, …
At 8:35 p.m., a commando of 14 MRTA members stormed the residence of the Japanese ambassador, Morihisa Aoki. Two hours after the takeover, the MRTA members allow the women and elderly to leave, but hold about 490 hostages. MRTA demands that the government release all MRTA prisoners. The crisis would …
The National Directorate of the MRTA made the decision to execute a commando-type military action in the city of Lima with the objective of freeing its militants. A little more than a dozen members of the MRTA special forces, operating in the central jungle, were intensively trained for several months …
Between December 17, 1996 and April 22, 1997, the MRTA took over the residence of the Japanese Ambassador, holding 72 hostages. The independent press, although critical of the Fujimori government, was visibly self-regulating in its coverage due to the magnitude of the blackmail. Coverage was intense and attracted international press. …
The national leadership of the MRTA decided that a group of members of its forces in the central jungle, weakened by confrontations with the Army, would carry out a major national operation aimed at freeing its prisoners. After several months of intense preparation, on December 17, 1996, 14 MRTA militants …
The MRTA took over the Japanese Ambassador's Residence located on block two of Prescott Avenue, San Isidro, on December 17, 1996 at approximately 8:10 p.m. during a reception for the Japanese Emperor's birthday. There were about 600 people. The main objective was to obtain the release of MRTA detainees. They …
Assault on the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima by an MRTA commando led by its top leader Néstor Cerpa, who held 72 hostages captive. The assault ended with the rescue operation Chavín de Huántar. The government used the celebrations for the successful release of the hostages to legitimize itself after …
In December 1996, the MRTA took over the Japanese ambassador's residence, holding 490 people hostage. Juan Julio Wicht, S.J. Monsignor Juan Luis Cipriani intervened in the negotiations as president of the Commission of Guarantors. On April 23, 1997, the bloody seizure of the residence by government forces took place. Cipriani …
On October 5, 1996, the Special Military Tribunal of the FAP confirmed the sentence of June 30, 1995 against Emilio Villalobos Alva, Gregorio Benigno Cuba Vega and the MRTA repentants related to the kidnapping of Raul Hiraoka Torres.
A faceless military judge of the Supreme Council of Military Justice sentences, in first instance, MRTA leader Miguel Rincón Rincón and American Lori Berenson to life imprisonment for treason. The U.S. State Department protests the life sentence given to U.S. citizen Lori Berenson. The sentence was issued after her capture …
In 1996, 66 Quechua-speaking deaths and disappearances were reported. The Shining Path PCP was responsible for 40 victims, State Agents for 13, CADS for 4, MRTA for 1, and 8 cases were attributed to undetermined perpetrators or others.
Miguel Rincón Rincón, an important member of the MRTA (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru) leadership, was arrested on November 30, 1995. This capture represented another resounding blow to the MRTA, which had already suffered the arrest of other important leaders such as Víctor Polay Campos in 1992. Rincón Rincón's arrest took …
Miguel Rincón Rincón, an important member of the MRTA leadership, is captured together with Lori Berenson. The existence of a plan to take over Congress is discovered. Both are sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence is issued on January 11, 1996. Rincón Rincón is imprisoned in the Callao Naval Prison.
On October 17, 1995, MRTA members recruited a 16-year-old girl. They came, called her and went outside to talk, stayed until almost midnight and then did not return. Her mother did not hear from her until she found out that she participated in the seizure of the Japanese Embassy on …
The Governor of the district of Pichanaqui and the Director of the Agrarian Development Fund (FONDEAGRO) of San Ramon were kidnapped by the MRTA in La Merced when they were returning from the inauguration of a medical post. The MRTA demanded money from the family members. They were released on …
On June 30, 1995, the Special Military Judge sentenced Emilio Villalobos Alva and Gregorio Benigno Cuba Vega to 25 years imprisonment. He also sentenced the repentant defendants with Codes No. B1A000133, B1A000087, B1A000089 and B1A000090 to 30 years of imprisonment, but due to the incidents of repentance, their sentences were …
On March 16, 1995, subversive forces of the MRTA attacked the Counter-subversive Base of La Florida, located in the district of Villa Rica, province of Oxapampa. The attack resulted in the death of 4 military personnel, including 1 lieutenant and 3 soldiers, in addition to leaving 7 soldiers wounded. This …
On January 17, 1995, an armed confrontation took place between members of the Peruvian Army and presumed MRTA subversives in the Boca Tigre sector, located between Satipo and Pichanaki in the department of Junín, killing two presumed MRTA subversives. This confrontation took place in the context of the military offensive …
During the period 1995-1996, when the presence of the PCP-SL in the country was minimal, the proportion of rapes committed by the PCP-SL and the MRTA increased. This data is striking because it contradicts the condemnatory discourse of these groups regarding sexual violence and occurs in a period of weakening …
In 1995, 110 Quechua-speaking deaths and disappearances were recorded. The Shining Path PCP was responsible for 68 victims, State Agents for 15, CADS for 2, MRTA for 2, and 23 cases were attributed to undetermined perpetrators or others.
Miguel Rincón Rincón, Lori Berenson and other MRTA members arrested. The arrest of U.S. citizen Lori Berenson sparks international controversy over her involvement with MRTA.
A policeman was killed by a grenade during a terrorist attack in Puerto Bermudez. The attack occurred in the context of the presence of subversive groups in the Oxapampa area, particularly the MRTA, which had been active in the Puerto Bermudez district since the late 1980s. By 1994, violence in …
Lucas Cachay, who had been in asylum in Brazil from approximately 1993 to 1994, returned to Peru in September 1994. Upon his return, he took advantage of the law of repentance on the recommendation of a businessman friend and lawyer named Carlos Gonzales. Cachay had been an important leader of …
On July 14, 1994, the MRTA carried out an ambush in La Merced, Chanchamayo province, Junin department. In this attack, two policemen were killed by the subversives. This event occurred in the context of the final phase of the internal armed conflict in the central jungle, when the MRTA still …
On May 29, 1994, there was an armed confrontation between State forces and the MRTA in San Juan Boca Tigre, Chanchamayo province. The event is mentioned in the context of the confrontations that took place during 1993-1994 in the central jungle, a period in which MRTA subversive activity continued on …
On May 3, 1994, the Supreme Council of Military Justice issued a resolution sentencing Fortunata Leyva Quispe to 30 years in prison, Alejandro Luis Astorga Valdez to life imprisonment, Jaén Mirla Salazar Ramos to 20 years in prison, Segundo Nemesio Alva Marín to 30 years and acquitted Lucinio Dávila Bravo …
On March 14, 1994, the FAP Military Tribunal confirmed the sentence of January 7, 1994 that condemned Juan Francisco Sebastián Castillo Petruzzi, Lautaro Enrique Mellado Saavedra, Segundo Nemesio Alva Marín, and María Concepción Pincheira Sáez to life imprisonment for the kidnapping of Raúl Hiraoka Torres.
On January 7, 1994, the Special Military Examining Judge sentenced Juan Francisco Sebastián Castillo Petruzzi, Lautaro Enrique Mellado Saavedra, Segundo Nemesio Alva Marín, and María Concepción Pincheira Sáez to life imprisonment for their participation in the kidnapping of Raúl Hiraoka Torres. Luis Astorga Valdez, Fortunata Leyva Quispe, Mirka Marleny de …
In 1994, 163 Quechua-speaking deaths and disappearances were reported. The Shining Path PCP was responsible for 96 victims, State Agents for 47, CADS for 2, MRTA for 6, and 12 cases were attributed to undetermined perpetrators or others.
The MRTA attacks the Hiraoka family home with explosives. That same night they set off a car bomb in front of the Hiraoka store on Petit Thouars Avenue, in the Lima district of Lince. These attacks were reprisals for the release of businessman Raul Hiraoka.
On November 7, 1993, a confrontation took place in La Merced between law enforcement forces and presumed MRTA subversives. During the confrontation, two presumed MRTA subversives were killed and an officer of the Peruvian National Police was wounded. This confrontation occurred in the context of the last year of intense …
Between 1991 and 1992, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso consolidated its new popular committees in the Bellavista area and formed a battalion on the banks of the Abiseo River with the objective of definitively taking Dos de Mayo. In November 1993, the Shining Path managed to take the town of Dos de …
During the early hours of October 15, 1993, the National Police searched several properties used by the MRTA. In the Aurora Urbanization in Surquillo, they arrested Fortunata Leyva Quispe, Jaime Sebastián Castillo Petruzzi, Heber Celso Oliva Zelada (Chileans), Segundo Nemesio Alva Marín and the 15-year-old minor Juan Llacta Sacha. In …
In an operation, businessman Raul Hiraoka Torres, kidnapped by members of the MRTA, was freed while being held captive in a house in Lima, known as the people's prison. The Chileans Castillo Petruzzi, Pincheira Sáez, Mellado Saavedra and Astorga Valdez were captured in the operation.
On October 14, 1993, DINCOTE personnel executed the 'Alacrán 1' operation plan and rescued businessman Raúl Hiraoka Torres alive. First they captured Lautaro Mellado Saavedra and Luis Astorga Valdez in the afternoon in the 22nd block of Las Magnolias Street in San Isidro. At approximately 8:00 p.m., they burst into …
Raúl Hiraoka Torres, son of the owner of the Hiraoka chain of stores, was kidnapped around 8:30 p.m. when he was driving a pickup truck in the Córpac neighborhood, San Isidro. His vehicle was hit by a pickup truck, and people got out and shot him with short-range weapons. The …
MRTA members kidnap businessman Raul Hiraoka Torres. This kidnapping is part of the MRTA's strategy to obtain resources by kidnapping businessmen.
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