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.
Between January 15 and 25, 2003, interviews were conducted with representatives of the Regional Association of Indigenous Peoples of the Central Jungle (ARPI) and the Asháninka Emergency Commission (CEA) in the city of Satipo. These interviews were part of the TRC's fieldwork to document the effects of the internal armed …
In 1995, the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, Francis Deng, visited the Asháninka area to report on their situation. That same year, the National Human Rights Coordinator published a report on the disappearance of Asháninka communities. During the internal armed conflict, out of 55,000 Asháninka, nearly 10,000 were forcibly displaced …
In 1995, the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, Francis Deng, visited the Asháninka area in the central jungle of Peru. The purpose of his visit was to raise international awareness of the grave humanitarian situation faced by the Asháninka people as a result of the internal armed conflict. This visit …
The Peruvian State ratified ILO Convention 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries through Legislative Resolution No. 26253 dated December 2, 1993. This agreement was published in the Diario El Peruano on December 5, 1993. ILO Convention 169 of 1989 replaced the previous Convention 107 of 1957 on …
Numerous mass graves with the remains of hundreds of Ashaninka natives murdered by the PCP-SL were found in the Ene Valley, province of Satipo, Junin, by a commission formed by the provincial prosecutor Florencia Grandes, EP commander Antonio Venegas (political-military chief of the Central Jungle Security Subzone), among other members.
Members of the PCP-SL murdered 65 inhabitants of the Tsiriari valley in Mazamari, Junín, in retaliation for the formation of Self-Defense Committees. Although it was known as an Asháninka massacre, of the total number of victims, 21 were Nomatsiguenga natives and the rest were settlers. This is one of the …
On August 18, 1993, around 4:00 p.m., a group of hikers arrived in the Nomatsiguenga Tahuantinsuyo community as part of a coordinated incursion of three hiker columns into eight communities in the Tsiriari valley. The murders were committed with bladed weapons: arrows, machetes and others were hanged with pitas. Twenty-one …
During 1991 and 1992 there were strong and continuous confrontations between the PCP-SL and the rondas or Asháninka self-defense committees in the Central Jungle. The year 1991 was the turning point in the Shining Path offensive in the region, when the Armed Forces together with the organized Asháninka population initiated …
By 1991, specialists and institutions estimated that out of 55,000 Asháninkas in the Central Jungle, about 10,000 were forcibly displaced in the Ene, Tambo and Perené valleys. It is estimated that 6,000 people died during the conflict and about 5,000 people were held captive under the control of the PCP-SL. …
During 1991 and 1992 there were strong and continuous confrontations between the PCP-SL and the Rondas or Asháninka Self-Defense Committees in the Central Jungle. The year 1991 was the turning point in the Shining Path offensive in the region, when the Armed Forces together with the organized Asháninka population initiated …
By the end of 1990, the PCP-SL managed to establish absolute control over the entire Ene River and the upper Tambo River, up to the Poyeni bend. This control was the result of an intensification of actions that began in 1989, when the PCP-SL increased its presence in the area …
The MRTA executed Alejandro Calderón, who was president of ANAP (Apatywaka - Nampitsi - Asháninka), an organization of Amazonian indigenous peoples. The execution took place in the province of Chanchamayo, department of Junín. As a direct consequence of this action, the MRTA was forced to completely abandon the area. This …
In mid-1989, PCP-SL made incursions into the Cashibo-Cacataibo community of Mariscal Cáceres. On that occasion they gathered the population in the school building and spoke to them about the class struggle, the "New State" they wanted to establish and asked them to organize themselves into a committee. The response of …
Between the second half of the 1980s and the early 1990s, the Asháninka people suffered a tragedy of enormous proportions. Some 6,000 Asháninka died, 10,000 were displaced and some 5,000 were taken captive by the Shining Path. Approximately 30 to 40 communities were disappeared and at least 60 mass graves …
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