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.
The student and leader of the Communist Party of the UNSAAC, Walter Huayllani, was murdered. This selective crime against a student leader is evidence of the political violence affecting leftist organizations in the universities.
Walter Huayllani, a student and leader of the Communist Party of the San Antonio Abad del Cuzco National University (UNSAAC), was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This crime took place in the context of the struggle for political control of the university, where various subversive forces were trying to control …
The events of Huanta in June 1969 were the litmus test that convinced the Red Flag sector led by Guzmán to initiate their own path towards what they called the reconstitution of the Communist Party. The Huanta struggle marks a turning point in the regional history of Ayacucho and the …
In 1968 the Red Flag Youth shows discrepancies against its national leadership asking Abimael Guzman to lead a new division. Guzmán did not accept and finally the youth and teachers' bases promoted the formation of a new party known as the PCP-Patria Roja. Previously, in 1965 the PCP-Bandera Roja had …
In 1964, after a national conference, the Communist Party split, giving rise to the PC Unity, which assumes the official line of the Soviet Union of Nikita Kruchev, and the PC Red Flag, identified with the China of Mao Tse Tung. Most of the peasant and youth communist bases are …
In 1961, when the university still had less than four hundred students, the Frente Estudiantil Revolucionario (FER) was formed, promoted by the Youth of the Communist Party, which integrated a group of leftist and independent tendencies. The FER would soon become the hegemonic student organization at the UNSCH.
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