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.
In March 1989, new cabinet ministers were sworn in under the presidency of Armando Villanueva del Campo. On March 10, the Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Armando Villanueva del Campo, addressed a message to the nation on the anti-subversive struggle. In this message he informed that a project …
President Alan Garcia Perez promulgates law 24953, which establishes drastic sanctions for those who participate in terrorist acts. This law states that anyone who provokes, creates or maintains a state of anxiety, alarm or terror will be punished with a prison sentence of no less than 15 years. The law …
In a message to the nation for national holidays, President Alan García Pérez proposed the presentation of three bills against terrorism. The first bill was aimed at punishing illicit association for subversive purposes. The second bill sought to punish the illegal possession of arms and explosives. The third bill contemplated …
On June 9, 1988, the Executive Branch called for two extraordinary legislatures of the Peruvian Congress. The first legislature was scheduled between June 14 and 26 to approve the bills for the creation of the pending regions within the framework of the country's regionalization process. The second legislature was to …
President Alan Garcia Perez gave a message to the nation on February 7, 1986. This message took place in a context of widespread political violence, with actions by both the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA. The presidential message was one of the outstanding political events of 1986, according to the …
Luis Pércovich Roca resigned as Minister of the Interior on October 12, 1984. He was replaced in the Interior portfolio by General EP Óscar Brush Noel. Pércovich had been a controversial figure during his tenure, being criticized by leftist sectors who accused him of promoting dirty war methods. His departure …
The Peruvian government decided to extend for thirty days the state of emergency throughout the country, which included the suspension of constitutional guarantees. This measure was taken after the Minister of the Interior, Luis Pércovich Roca, stated that it had not been considered convenient to implement the state of siege. …
The Minister of the Interior, Luis Pércovich Roca, publicly stated that the government had not considered it convenient to implement a state of siege in the country. This statement came after an Official Communiqué was published on July 6 in which the President of the Republic Fernando Belaunde Terry and …
On September 9, 1983, Premier Fernando Schwalb Lopez Aldana announced that the government had decided to lift the state of emergency in the country. However, this measure did not apply to the provinces under military control in Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Apurimac, where the state of emergency continued. The state of …
On July 28, 1983, President Fernando Belaunde Terry presented his annual message to the Congress of the Republic. In this speech, Belaunde Terry demanded the reestablishment of the death penalty, in the context of the escalation of political violence that the country was going through. This message was given in …
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