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.
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 …
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 …
During the police operation 'Mudanza I', whose objective was to transfer all the inmates from Castro Castro prison to Santa Monica prison, Yovanka Pardavé Trujillo and Tito Valle Travesaño, who had been imprisoned since July 1991, lost their lives. Both had been identified as Shining Path PCP militants linked to …
Operation of the Dircote (Directorate against Terrorism) that intercepted one of the main 'health depots' of the PCP-SL. In this operation, various members of the PCP-SL's health management cell were captured, many of them students from San Marcos. These captures were made possible by the previous arrest of Tito Valle …
In December 1991, law enforcement forces conducted coordinated operations in the area between the international airport and the district of Ventanilla in Callao. In two operations by the Navy and one by the police forces, 20 presumed Shining Path members were captured. These operations were part of the State's response …
On January 31, 1991, the Special Intelligence Group (GEIN) raided a house in the district of San Borja, Lima, where they seized the general archive of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL). Among the confiscated materials were the famous videos showing the leadership of the PCP-SL dancing …
On January 31, 1991, the Special Intelligence Group (GEIN) raided a house in the district of San Borja, Lima, seizing the general archive of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL). In this operation they found the famous videos of the PCP-SL leadership dancing 'Zorba, the Greek'. This …
In June 1990, police raided the Organizational Support Department (DAO) of the PCP-SL, which operated in Monterrico Norte, a military residential area in Lima. The DAO was responsible for drafting the party's directives that went to the central committees and apparatuses. The property was in charge of lawyer Elvia Nila …
A detachment of the PCP-SL that was gathered in the house of a villager in the hamlet of Hierba Buena, located one hour from Calluán, was surrounded by a platoon of the Peruvian National Police. A confrontation ensued in which the PCP-SL lost more than seven important cadres, among them …
Seven soldiers of the Húsares de Junín regiment were killed after a bomb attack in Barrios Altos, Lima. As a result of the intense police and Peruvian Army actions, more than fifteen thousand people were arrested during the gigantic operation. This attack took place in a context of intensified political …
On July 15, 1987, paratroopers from specialized police units took the town of Tocache in a major operation called 'Relámpago'. Apparently the PCP-SL and the drug traffickers were aware of the police counterattack because both groups withdrew from the urban area before the arrival of the first troops. This operation …
The Minister of the Interior, Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre, announced the arrest of 71 people implicated in various acts of terrorism in April 1987. Of those arrested, 46 were linked to the PCP-SL (Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path) and 25 to the MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement). This police …
By the first months of 1987 there were already hundreds of PCP-SL fighters concentrated in Tocache and the party controlled the town. Small groups armed only with wooden batons walked through three-block sectors, reporting any situation they could not resolve to the Club Obrero where armed PCP-SL elements had established …
A major police operation was carried out in the city of Huancavelica on July 24, 1983. The operation was characterized by the number of police personnel involved and the significant number of people detained. More than forty people were arrested during this operation, accused of being alleged subversives or collaborators …
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