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 Friday, May 19, 1989, a group of the PCP-SL assassinated Marcelino Pachari Roselló, provincial mayor of Azángaro and militant of the Communist Party of Peru "Patria Roja". The mayor was inspecting the reconstruction of the bridge that days before had been blown up by a detachment of the PCP-SL. …
Since 1988, the PCP-SL gained control of the Comité Lucha de Comensales, displacing Patria Roja and what was left of the FEUL. Previously, after the prison massacre in 1986, the PCP-SL began a strong symbolic presence in the UNE, installing a series of murals with themes and slogans alluding to …
A column of 5,000 people from Huaycán, armed with sticks and stones, rejected the 4,000 members of the Horacio Zevallos human settlement who were trying to occupy land in the ravine. The confrontations were stopped by the mediation of the main leaders of the conflicting sectors. The Horacio Zevallos Association, …
SUTEP begins one of the longest strikes in the history of this union: three and a half months. The government rejects the dialogue arguing an alleged politicization of this union. The Minister of the Interior declares that extremist elements linked to the Marxist-Leninist political group Patria Roja have been conducting …
In 1977, after a period of instability, the Universidad Particular de Ayacucho was dissolved and its faculties were integrated into the University of Huamanga. This allowed the UNSCH to increase its enrollment by more than two thousand students, reaching a population of 7,610 students. The UNSCH integrates new specialties such …
In the 1972 Congress, held in Cuzco, it was agreed to change the name of the former FENEP to SUTEP and to abandon the old division based on educational levels. The unification of the teachers' union met with some opposition, especially from the PAP. The PCP Patria Roja allied with …
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 1967, the APRA, allied with the oligarchic sectors and the Huamanga clergy, decided to create the Catholic University of Ayacucho, which would later take the name of Universidad Particular de Ayacucho Victor Andres Belaunde (UPA). With the support of Luis Alberto Sanchez, rector of San Marcos, the UPA received …
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