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 February 18, 1984, approximately 200 heavily armed subversives raided five villages in the province of Tayacaja in Huancavelica. During this incursion, they massacred 15 peasants. Among the victims were two municipal agents and a lieutenant governor. This attack was part of the political violence affecting the region during the …
On January 15, 1983, one of the first confrontations between the subversive forces of the PCP-SL and an Army patrol took place in a spot in the district of Pampas, province of Tayacaja. This confrontation occurred shortly after the installation of the Political Military Command in Ayacucho and Huancavelica and …
In 1982, the Pampas region of Peru experienced significant violence as part of a broader movement against landowners, known as 'gamonales'. This period saw the dismantling of semi-feudal estates and the redistribution of land, with the PCP-SL (Shining Path) targeting both traditional and newly affluent landowners. The violence was part …
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