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.
David Ritter Walker, a U.S. citizen, was arrested by members of the Armed Forces after a violent raid on his home for supporting the demands of the peasants for better conditions for agriculture. Monsignor Guido Breña reacted in defense of Fr. Ritter with a communiqué and made representations to the …
Fr. Franz Windischoffer, parish priest of Huantar in Huari, was attacked and tortured, and his house was set on fire. This violent attack against the priest is part of the escalation of violence against pastoral agents of the Catholic Church. The objective was to intimidate and expel religious from the …
On June 16, 1989, a group of subversives of the PCP-SL attacked the police post in the district of Huaripampa, in the province of Jauja. Two policemen and Teodoro Santos Mejia, who was the local parish priest, were killed during the scuffle. This attack was part of the escalation of …
The parish priest of the town of Huaripampa, Jauja, Junin, R.P. Teodoro Santos Mejia, was killed during an attack by Shining Path elements on the police post. Two policemen were killed in the same attack. The priest was a collateral victim of the Shining Path attack against the police.
Víctor Acuña Cárdenas, pastor of Magdalena Parish in Huamanga, Ayacucho, and director of Caritas of Ayacucho, was murdered by elements of the PCP-SL on December 3, 1987. The assassins were identified as members of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path. This assassination was part of the selective annihilation …
Father Marcial Couderc, pastor of Ayaviri and Vicar General of the prelature, together with four people responsible for parish movements, were kidnapped for 12 hours in the Sota farm of the Empresa Rural Umachiri, presumably by a paramilitary commando. The following day, Father Hilario Huanca Mamani, cooperating vicar of the …
On October 1, 1984, the parish priest of Amparaes, R.P. Rolando Ramos, a Salesian, was arrested along with several members of his pastoral team in the province of Calca, Cuzco. A week later, the pastor and four members of his pastoral team were released after the ecclesiastical authorities took the …
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