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 affiant is a witness to the massacre in Puquio, Lucanas, Ayacucho. The event was documented in a testimony collected in Lima in September 2002. No specific details about the circumstances of the massacre, the number of victims or the perpetrators are provided in the available excerpt from the report.
Testimony collected in Lima during September 2002 as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigations. The affiant witnessed the massacre that took place in Puquio, Lucanas province, Ayacucho department. This testimony is part of the documentation on the psychological and emotional impacts of political violence in Peru, specifically related …
Two weeks after his arbitrary arrest on July 27, 1984, Jesús Oropeza was murdered by his Civil Guard captors. Seven members of the police were subsequently prosecuted by the judiciary. This case exemplifies state violence against social leaders during the internal armed conflict.
Interior Minister Luis Pércovich Roca spoke in the Senate about the Oropesa case. This case referred to the detention of Jesús Oropesa Chonta, who had been arrested on July 27, 1984 by members of the Civil Guard on an alleged terrorism complaint in Puquio, Ayacucho. The disappearance of the peasant …
Jesús Oropeza, peasant leader, was arrested by agents of the Civil Guard in the province of Puquio, department of Ayacucho. His detention was later denied by the authorities. This case is part of the human rights violations committed during the internal armed conflict, where social leaders were victims of arbitrary …
On July 27, 1984, members of the Civil Guard arrested Jesús Oropesa Chonta in Puquio, Ayacucho, on an alleged terrorism charge. Oropesa Chonta was a peasant leader in the area. His detention was followed by his forced disappearance, which caused a commotion in the country's political circles. The case was …
On July 27, 1984, members of the Civil Guard detained and assassinated in Puquio the peasant leader Jesús Oropesa, burning his corpse, which was not found until August 10. Oropesa was a leader of the national CNA and of the Uteq community, and proposed the maintenance of the Viseca hacienda …
On July 27, 1984, at approximately four o'clock in the afternoon, Jesús Manuel Oropeza Chonta, a 33-year-old peasant leader, Secretary of Peasant Communities of the National Agrarian Confederation and Vice-President of the Agrarian League 'María Parado de Bellido' of Lucanas, was in the main square of Puquio when two members …
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