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 group of Shining Path guerrillas assassinated two Polish Franciscan priests, Michel Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strzalkowski, in Pariacoto, Ancash. Shining Path claimed these murders as a blow to the old order, accusing the priests of being agents of imperialism in disguise. The priests worked in development projects with peasant communities. …
Polish Franciscan priests Zbigniew Strazalkowski (32 years old) and Michel Tomasek (34 years old) were taken by a column of the Shining Path from the parish house of Pariacoto after Mass. They were taken to the Pueblo Viejo, next to the cemetery, where they killed Father Miguel with a shot …
On August 9, 1991, a group of subversives assassinated the mayor of Pariacoto and two Polish priests in the district of Pariacoto, province of Huaraz, department of Ancash. This attack was part of a series of selective attacks intensified by the PCP-SL during that period, which included actions against local …
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