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.
Two dynamite and ampho explosions destroyed the municipality and part of the Cristo Rey parish in Juliaca. This simultaneous attack against civil and religious institutions shows the Shining Path's strategy of attacking symbols of the State and the Church. The explosions caused significant material damage.
The San Andrés parish was founded in Huaycán, a name suggested by Father Tadeo Passini and accepted by Cardinal Augusto Vargas Alzamora, then Archbishop of Lima. On this basis, the parish complex was built, which included a series of services, a library and a radio station. That same year, concerned …
A group of MRTA assaulted the Santa Rosa parish in Tacna and took a mimeograph. This assault is part of the MRTA's actions of stealing materials and equipment from Church institutions. Unlike Sendero Luminoso, the MRTA was looking more for rapprochement and infiltration than direct attack.
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