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 January 2003, on the 20th anniversary of the Uchuraccay massacre, it was expected that a ruling would be issued on the statute of limitations. However, the judicial authorities considered that the legal period for the process to remain in reserve is 30 years, which means that the statute of …
The Criminal Court of San Ignacio opened an investigation against Major PNP César Coquis Coz, Captain PNP Antonio Benavides Samalvides and Sub Officer 3ª Óscar Rafael Villacrés Costa for the crime of abuse of authority against eleven forest defenders who had been arbitrarily detained. The judge determined that the detainees …
The Eighth Specialized Criminal Court of Chiclayo opened an investigation against the ten residents of San Ignacio arrested on June 27, accusing them of the crime of terrorism against the State. The opening order stated that they had seized dynamite, explosives, PCP pamphlets and other items. Despite the fact that …
On June 27, 1988, the oral trial against Osmán Morote Barrionuevo, who had been captured on June 12 of that year by the DIRCOTE in Lima, began in a public hearing. Morote was considered the number two in the hierarchy of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL). …
The Supreme Court of Justice issued its final judgment in the second instance of the Uchuraccay case, increasing to 15 years the prison sentence of defendants Dionisio Morales Pérez and Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles for the crime of simple homicide, confirming the rest of the sentence of the Special Court. The …
Simeón Auccatoma Quispe, a member of the Uchuraccay community and one of the three defendants arrested for the massacre of journalists on January 26, 1983, died in prison of tuberculosis contracted in the Lurigancho prison. During the oral trial, Auccatoma Quispe was extremely affected and submissive, bursting into tears several …
The Congress of the Republic approved Law 24700, which established specific time periods for judicial proceedings in terrorism cases. This law determined an investigation period of ten days and an investigation period of sixty days for cases related to terrorism crimes. The law sought to expedite judicial proceedings against persons …
The Special Court sentenced three peasants from Uchuraccay for the murder of eight journalists on January 26, 1983. Dionisio Morales Pérez was sentenced to 10 years in prison, Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles to 8 years and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe to 6 years, all for the crime of simple homicide. Although the …
The judiciary issued the final ruling in the criminal trial for the murder of eight journalists and two community members in Uchuraccay on January 26, 1983. The judicial process was extremely confusing and lengthy, lasting more than four years. The sentence convicted three peasants from Uchuraccay for murder: Dionisio Morales …
During the oral trial of the Uchuraccay case transferred to Lima, hearings were held between May and December 1986 in which members of the mixed patrol that arrived in Uchuraccay after the murder of the journalists on January 26, 1983 testified. The trial took place before the Special Tribunal that …
In mid-April 1986, the Eighth Correctional Court of Lima became a Special Court dedicated exclusively to the Uchuraccay case. This tribunal was presided over by a doctor whose name is not fully specified in the excerpt. The Special Tribunal was constituted after the trial was transferred from Ayacucho to Lima …
During the oral trial of the Uchuraccay trial that took place between May and December 1986, the body of Juan Argumedo was found. Juan Argumedo García had been captured on January 23, 1983, 5 kilometers from Uchuraccay, at the point called Yuracyacu, and taken to the community for interrogation. Argumedo …
On November 25, 1985, the Eighth Correctional Court of Lima was designated to take over the continuation of the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre. This transfer took place after the request of the journalists' relatives to transfer the trial from Ayacucho to Lima was declared well-founded on September 12, …
On September 12, 1985, the request of the relatives of the journalists murdered in Uchuraccay to transfer the judicial process to Lima was declared well-founded. This decision was made after the relatives requested the transfer of jurisdiction on July 18, 1985 and challenged all the members of the chamber of …
The relatives of the journalists murdered in Uchuraccay recused all the members of the chamber of the Superior Court of Ayacucho during the judicial process. This recusal occurred after the last hearing of the oral trial held on July 24, 1985. The recusal was part of the multiple irregularities and …
On July 24, 1985, the last hearing of the oral trial against three peasants accused of the massacre of eight journalists in Uchuraccay was held. The oral trial had begun on September 28, 1984 and lasted ten months. The defendants present were Dionisio Morales Pérez, Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles and Simeón …
On July 18, 1985, the relatives of the journalists murdered in Uchuraccay formally requested the transfer of jurisdiction of the trial from the Superior Court of Ayacucho to the city of Lima. This request came in the context of an extremely eventful and complex judicial process that had dragged on …
On June 21, 1985, the withdrawal of the prosecutor's indictment against the three peasants arrested for the Uchuraccay massacre was declared inadmissible. This judicial decision came after prosecutor Oscar Guerrero surprisingly requested, during the hearing of March 26, 1985, the withdrawal of the accusation against the three accused and their …
During the hearing on March 26, 1985 in the oral trial for the Uchuraccay massacre, prosecutor Oscar Guerrero, to the astonishment of the audience, requested the withdrawal of the accusation against the three accused peasants (Dionisio Morales Perez, Mariano Ccasani Gonzales and Simeon Auccatoma Quispe) and their immediate release. The …
On August 14, 1984, the Public Prosecutor's Office filed the indictment against seventeen peasants from Uchuraccay accused of the massacre of journalists that occurred on January 26, 1983. The prosecution requested a minimum prison sentence of 25 years for the crime of multiple homicide. Of the seventeen defendants, only three …
In March 1984, the Public Prosecutor's Office charged three detained community members (Dionisio Morales Pérez, Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe) and fourteen other community members from Uchuraccay for the massacre of journalists that took place on January 26, 1983. Subsequently, on August 14, 1984, the Public Prosecutor's Office …
The investigation carried out by the ad hoc Court of Instruction ended on February 17, 1984, one year and one month after the events of the Uchuraccay massacre. The case file was transferred to the Superior Court of Justice of Ayacucho. Subsequently, on August 14, 1984, the Public Prosecutor's Office …
On January 31, 1984, a judicial reconstruction of facts was carried out in Uchuraccay, related to the judicial process for the murder of the eight journalists that occurred on January 26, 1983. During this proceeding, the path taken by the journalists from their arrival in the area to the place …
Simeón Aucatoma Quispe, varayoc of the Uchuraccay community, was arrested on July 20, 1983 as one of only three community members captured in the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre of January 26, 1983. He was accused along with sixteen other community members for the murder of eight journalists. During …
Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles was one of the three Uchuraccay community members arrested in the judicial process for the massacre of journalists on January 26, 1983. He was captured in Tambo on July 5, 1983, together with Dionisio Morales Pérez (arrested on May 17) and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe (arrested on July …
The relatives of the journalists murdered in Uchuraccay requested the nullity of the judicial process due to procedural flaws and serious irregularities committed during the beginning of the process. This request was filed in the context of an extremely eventful and complex judicial process that lasted for five long years. …
Dionisio Morales Pérez, president of the Uchuraccay community, was arrested on May 17, 1983 while he was hospitalized in Huamanga. He was one of only three community members detained in the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre of January 26, 1983, in which eight journalists and two other people died. …
Between May 9 and 14, 1983, Judge ad hoc Juan Flores Rojas conducted a judicial proceeding in the communities of Uchuraccay, Huaychao and Iquicha. During this diligence, the judge collected statements from various authorities and peasants of these communities. On the last day of this judicial proceeding, May 14, an …
On March 3, 1983, ad-hoc judge Juan Flores Rojas conducted a judicial diligence in Uchuraccay. During this visit, he met with 18 men and 5 women from the community to collect their statements about the events of January 26, 1983, when eight journalists were murdered. Among the peasants who gave …
Judge Juan Flores Rojas conducted judicial proceedings in Uchuraccay during March 1983, collecting statements from authorities and community members about the violent events that occurred in the area. Among the testimonies were the declarations of Dionisio Ramos Ricra, regidor mayor vara of the Uchuraccay annex, who provided information about the …
On February 7, 1983, based on police reports, the Huamanga Provincial Prosecutor's Office formally denounced three Uchuraccay community members: Fortunato Gavilán, Silvio Chávez Soto and Santiago Ccente, ordering their arrest. This denunciation took place within the framework of the judicial process initiated after the massacre of eight journalists on January …
Due to serious irregularities committed during the initiation of the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre, the Superior Court of Ayacucho removed Judge Hugo Molina from his position as examining magistrate on February 2, 1983. Judge Molina had taken cognizance of the case on January 30, 1983, even though Uchuraccay …
On January 30, 1983, the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre formally began with the exhumation of the bodies of the eight journalists and other victims. The examining magistrate of Huamanga, Dr. Hugo Molina, took cognizance of the case even though Uchuraccay was not in his jurisdiction. The diligence was …
On January 30, 1983, the day of the exhumation of the bodies of the journalists murdered in Uchuraccay, a large group of journalists, parliamentarians and relatives of the victims arrived in Ayacucho. The group traveled in a plane chartered by the newspaper La República. That same day, the examining magistrate …
On January 30, 1983, the investigating judge of Huamanga, Dr. Hugo Molina, took cognizance of the case of the Uchuraccay massacre, even though Uchuraccay was not in his jurisdiction. That same day the bodies of the murdered journalists were exhumed. Judge Molina took cognizance of the case by order of …
On January 28, 1983, the massacre of eight journalists that had occurred two days earlier in Uchuraccay was confirmed. The news was disseminated nationally and internationally, generating great commotion. On January 30, in a plane chartered by the newspaper La República, a large group of journalists, parliamentarians and relatives of …
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