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.
Beginning in 1995, the majority of displaced families began to return to the sites of their original communities in the central jungle. The return process had officially begun on September 17, 1994, as part of a campaign promoted by the government and the Armed Forces. However, many of those who …
Operation Aries was a large-scale military operation launched in April 1994 in the Huallaga region, as part of the counter-subversive strategy in an area that remained violent while the rest of the country was increasingly pacified. However, the operation was halted in May of the same year in the face …
In February 1994, the Armed Forces took definitive control of the left bank of the Huallaga River, putting an end to the constant incursions by both the Army and the PCP-SL that had affected the populations settled in that area. From approximately 1990 until the first two months of 1994, …
After the establishment of a military base in the Carhuarán community, military personnel began to systematically abuse the civilian population. The abuses were mainly of a sexual nature and were directed especially against young women in the community. These events occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations in the Huanta …
In 1992, fifteen soldiers intercepted a witness and his wife in Huancavelica, accusing them of having seen terrorists passing by. The soldiers raped the witness's wife in front of him. The testimony documents how sexual violence was used by military personnel as a form of intimidation and punishment against civilians …
In 1991, the Peruvian army committed serious human rights violations in Tingo Maria. One affiant stated that it was no longer possible to continue living in his village because the army came in and raped and killed people who were not Shining Path members. The testimonies indicate a systematic pattern …
Between 1990 and the first months of 1994, the populations settled on the left bank of the Huallaga River suffered constant incursions and operations by the Army and the PCP-SL. Villagers hid in the bush during these confrontations, fearing both the Army and the Shining Path. The Army carried out …
In 1990, in the district of Huambalaya, province of Vilcashuaman, department of Ayacucho, cases of rape were recorded in the context of the internal armed conflict. The testimony documents these events as part of the pattern of sexual violence that affected rural communities during the most intense years of the …
On October 25, 1989, an army patrol surrounded the town of Atcas in the province of Yauyos, department of Lima. The military forced the villagers to leave their homes and head towards the town's stadium. The operation was part of the counter-subversive actions carried out by the armed forces in …
In October 1988, a subversive column entered the town of Puyhuan and killed 15 villagers. This event occurred in the context of intensifying violence in the province of Acobamba, where Shining Path had been committing systematic murders against the civilian population since 1984. The attack was part of a series …
In 1988, the population of Alto Huallaga reached approximately 200,000 inhabitants, in a context of extreme violence generated by the simultaneous presence of the PCP-SL, drug traffickers and the armed forces. The area was experiencing social chaos as a result of the failure of state colonization projects, the expansion of …
In July and September 1983, massacres occurred in the district of Chiara, province of Huamanga, Ayacucho. In July 1983, the PCP-SL murdered 20 community members in Sachabamba, Chiara. In September of the same year, the PCP-SL murdered 10 community members in Bellavista, Chiara. In April 1984, members of the army …
On April 3, 1983, the PCP-SL attacked Lucanamarca in one of the worst massacres of the civilian population of the internal armed conflict. Approximately eighty subversives under Horacio's command entered at dawn, starting with the ranches in the puna. At ten o'clock in the morning they arrived at the town. …
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