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.
A column of approximately 200 Shining Path elements attacked eight colonist camps in the province of Satipo. They killed more than 55 people, including natives and settlers, and cut off the ears of 14 children. This massive attack exemplifies the brutality of the Shining Path against civilian populations, including the …
In August 1993, some 200 subversives of the Shining Path PCP, among them natives, attacked the communities of Santa Isabel, Monte Rico, Jerusalén, San Isidro, Tahuantinsuyo and Irriari in the central jungle. During the assault, in addition to murdering the authorities and teachers of these communities, the subversives committed acts …
In Casinchihua the corpse of a woman appeared, so in the morgue they asked a witness to recognize it. It was her sister, who showed extreme signs of violence: she was headless, decapitated, burned, with her breasts cut off, with signs of rape, with her arms broken, her bones split …
On November 27, 1991, Cayo Silvestre Carhuancho was detained in Nuevo Copal by military personnel from the Aucayacu base. When family members arrived to ask for him they were denied detention and were threatened with death, finally they were 'suggested' to look in the body dumps near the Huallaga. Seven …
On September 23, 1991, members of the Army entered the home of Eladio Avendaño Medrano, a health worker at the Cachicoto health center. Dressed only in his underwear, he was forced to kneel, handcuffed and tortured. With the radio on at full volume, they cut off his ear and hit …
On August 16, 1991, in the district of Hermilio Valdizán, members of the Los Laureles base arrested César Beltrán Igúsquiza Caldas. He was taken to the local school, where he was beaten. That night he was taken behind the municipal council building, where they cut off his fingers and ears …
On August 9, 1991, members of the counter-subversive base of Aucayacu detained Sara Luz Mozombite Quiñonez in Sangapilla. They accused her of being a 'tuca' and took her to the base. When family members went to the base, Lieutenant Gringo and Captain Lobo denied that she was there. A week …
On June 19, 1991, in Aucayacu, Army troops arrested Leovigildo Decio Hernández Celis at his home at 2 a.m. and took him to the military base. His body was found by family members, burned and without intestines, on the banks of a nearby river.
A witness kidnapped by the PCP-SL was taken to a base of the subversive group and then to a hill where they murdered people. The witness recounts the rape with objects to which the women were subjected: she saw how the Shining Path members cut off the breasts and put …
On November 24, 1990, Army troops entered the town of Primavera, near Aucayacu, which had been identified as a subversive base. The raid turned into a massacre in which 24 people were killed, some of them mutilated, with their ears, tongues and testicles cut off.
On September 25, 1990, Leywer Ruiz Trigoso was arrested in the village of Huanganapampa by military troops from Rupa Rupa. He was later found dead with his body machine-gunned and his head mutilated by an explosive.
On August 15, 1990, in La Morada, Leonardo Jara was intercepted by members of the Army. They held him down and cut his face and ear. They then took him to the Madre Mía military base in Nuevo Progreso and to this day he is still missing.
One month before the 1990 general elections, the Shining Path barbarically attacked the district of Iguaín. The subversives mutilated the hands of peasants, among them children, with the intention of causing terror in the population so that they would not go to vote. At the hacienda, an armed group dressed …
On February 5, 1990, Julio Alvarado Bardales, a coca farmer, was arrested by Army troops at a party. He was accused of being a terrorist because members of the PCP-SL sometimes came to his house. Days later he was taken to his father's house, who saw that his ears had …
A 15-year-old boy who was carrying an explosive attached to his body was seriously injured when the device he was about to throw on the Gervasio Santillana square exploded. The boy's right hand was amputated and his stomach practically emptied. This case occurred less than 48 hours after a similar …
The affiant's daughter-in-law was forced to move with her husband by a group of hikers. The woman said she did not want to leave and threatened to denounce them. Then they grabbed her and raped her. Then they cut off her breasts, shot her and she fell dead. The victim's …
The Shining Path gathered children to take them to the bush at the point of beatings. When some of the children resisted, the terrorists grabbed one of them, beat him even more, and forced the other children to grab him tightly. In the presence of everyone, they cut off his …
A woman was forced to move with her husband by a group of hikers. The woman said she did not want to leave and threatened to denounce them if they did not release her husband. They then grabbed her and raped her. Then they cut off her breasts, shot her …
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