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 Shining Path destroyed the Rural Education Institute of the Ayaviri Prelature in the Southern Andes. Shortly after, they threatened the prelate of Ayaviri and forced him to dialogue with other authorities. This attack is part of a strategy of intimidation against Church educational institutions working with peasant communities.
A squad of the PIP and the Prosecutor of Canchis showed up at the facilities of the Peasant Training Center and the Community Aid Project, both dependencies of the Prelature of Sicuani, with orders from Lima to raid both premises, without any notice and without contacting the prelate, Monsignor Quinn. …
On August 18, the police post of Umachiri, near Ayaviri, was attacked. After this attack the police forced their way into the premises of the Prelature's Social Works, taking the four employees into custody; they also entered the IER. The capitular vicar Francisco d'Alteroche protested and was treated as if …
In September 1981, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso launched a bomb against the headquarters of the Prelature of Juli. This attack occurred one month after the attack on the Palermo Rural Institute of the Maryknoll Fathers, near Juli, in August 1981. Both assaults provoked a strong wave of indignation among the local …
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