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.
Pascuala Rosado was a leader of the urban community of Huaycán who established the first police station in the area in July 1992. In 1991, when the PCP-SL increased its presence on the central highway, Pascuala was threatened. Faced with threats, she was forced to leave the country. Upon her …
In July 1992, the first police station was established in Huaycán under the leadership of the leader Pascuala Rosado. On July 15, 1992, the defense corps was sworn in, where more than two or three hundred men and women were sworn in to fight for the security of the town. …
In July 1992, the first police station was established in Huaycán when Pascuala Rosado was the leader. This decision met with resistance from the population, who were accustomed to their local self-defense systems for citizen security. The population experienced these decisions as a loss of autonomy and their capacity for …
Zacarías Magallanes, a leader of the Huaycán human settlement, was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP in March 1992. This assassination occurred in the context of the political dispute for control of the Huaycán neighborhood organization, where the PCP-SL had suffered a political defeat in April 1991 when the delegates …
The I Encuentro de Rondas del Bajo Huallaga was held in Chazuta in 1992, as part of a series of meetings organized by OPASM (Oficina Prelatural de Acción Social de Moyobamba) and the peasant patrols of San Martin. This event was one of several regional meetings that sought to consolidate …
On July 7, 1991, the Urban Self-Management Community of Huaycán (CUAH) decided to create the "Self-Defense Corps", initially restricted to fighting crime and drug addiction. This decision came after in April 1991, during the Second Statutory Congress of the CUAH, the Shining Pathists were politically defeated by the delegates who …
During the Second Statutory Congress of the CUAH (Comunidad Urbana Autogestionaria de Huaycán) in April 1991, the Shining Pathists were politically defeated by the delegates. The delegates agreed to organize in "mass self-defense" against drug addiction, delinquency and violence. In response to this political defeat, the PCP-SL called an armed …
On November 3, 1989, the PCP-SL carried out an incursion into the town of Iparia with the objective of organizing the population and appointing authorities under their control. During the action, they gathered the villagers, but a fortuitous event confused the subversives and allowed the escape of the prisoners and …
In May 1989 municipal elections were held in Villa El Salvador despite attempts by the PCP-SL to sabotage them. The elections were held with the majority support of the population and the guarantees requested from the National Police. Izquierda Unida (IU) easily won the municipal elections in the district. This …
At the end of 1989 and beginning of 1990, the Army promoted the organization of villagers in counter-subversive peasant patrols in the department of Pasco. This strategy sought to counteract the presence of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso by mobilizing the organized civilian population. The peasant patrols joined the expanded military presence …
Beginning in 1988, the MRTA made incursions into various native communities in Ucayali as part of its territorial expansion strategy. The Ejército del Terreno (ET) of the Eastern Front went through communities such as Colonia del Caco, Curiaca, Santa Rosa de Sheshea and Nueva Alianza de Sheshea. In these incursions, …
In May 1987, the first Founding Congress of the Frente de Defensa de los Intereses del Pueblo de San Martín (FEDIP-SM) was held, with a majority of the provincial bases in attendance. This congress formalized the creation of an organization that would become the main leadership body in the region, …
The Carabayllo Defense Front began to function in 1987 as an organization that provided political education to the population. In this front there were people linked to both the PCP-SL and the MRTA, who distributed flyers and gave speeches. The Defense Front was later dismantled in the 1990s, at the …
At the end of 1986 and beginning of 1987, the PCP-SL advanced towards the north of Tocache, organizing towns and villages. Among the towns organized were Bambamarca, Nuevo Horizonte, Escote and Santa Rosa de Mishollo. This expansion was parallel to the control that the PCP-SL established over the town of …
Exactly one month after the occupation of Huaycán, classes began at Educational Center 1236. The school building was built on a communal site with seven classrooms, restrooms and an office for the principal. The neighbors contributed materials and built the first folders. Two months later, the Lima Department of Education …
Michel Azcueta, a militant of Izquierda Unida (IU), was elected mayor of Villa El Salvador in 1983, leading the campaign to establish VES as an independent district that same year. Azcueta won the municipal elections in the context of a broad movement to make VES an independent municipal district, which …
In 1983, the National Congress approved the conversion of Villa El Salvador into an independent municipal district. This achievement was the result of a broad movement of residents that emerged in the context of the withdrawal of state support, municipal neglect by Villa María del Triunfo authorities and the crisis …
In May 1977, the Comité de Coordinación y Lucha Barrial (Neighborhood Coordination and Struggle Committee) was formed in Lima, an organization that articulated the workers' and neighborhood movement in the context of the mobilizations against the military government. This committee emerged after the government decreed a State of Emergency in …
Villa El Salvador was founded in 1971 as a response by the reformist military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975) to a land invasion organized by recent migrants and residents of Lima's slums and alleys. The district was especially characterized by its organizational level, its capacity for self-management and the …
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