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 May 21, 1983, a contingent of approximately 200 PCP-SL militants entered the district of Páucar. The towns of 8 de Diciembre, Chaupimarca and in particular Tangor and San Juan de Yacán, were consequently at the mercy of the PCP-SL groups. Among the militants present was Oscar Ramirez Duran, known …
In May 1983, the PCP-SL had entered the district of Paucar with a contingent of approximately 200 militants on May 21, 1983. In San Juan de Yacán, a group of subversives, among them children and adolescents wearing red ribbons on their foreheads, marched towards the school, shouting "armed struggle" and …
In May 1983, a contingent of 200 peasants led by a platoon of armed Shining Path members entered the district of Páucar, harangued the population and threatened the authorities. A month later, in a new assault on the town, the authorities and the school principal were assassinated for not resigning. …
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