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 declarant recounts the murder of his son in Poyeni, a locality located in Rio Tambo, province of Satipo, department of Junin. The testimony was recorded in 2002 as part of the statements compiled by the CVR. The case reflects the devastating emotional impact on the victims' families, who expressed …
On September 17, 1994, the process of returning the Asháninka communities to their places of origin in the district of Río Tambo officially began as part of a campaign promoted by the government to generate a psychosocial impact on the Peruvian population. The media called this event 'the great Asháninka …
In 1994, the inhabitants of the settler community of Selva de Oro, Rio Tambo district, who had crossed the Ene River fleeing the military offensive, left the area where they were located with the consent of the subversive commanders of the PCP-SL. The villagers had been living in extreme conditions …
Between 1993 and 1995, the number of Asháninkas rescued from the PCP-SL grew significantly as a result of the intensification of the counter-subversive struggle. Joint operations between the Army and the ronderos in the Tambo and Ene river valleys made it possible to free thousands of Asháninkas who had been …
Between 1992 and 1993, the number of Asháninkas who attempted or succeeded in fleeing the Popular Committees controlled by the PCP-SL increased significantly. The Asháninkas rejected the living conditions in these committees, which functioned as concentration camps with forced labor, strict schedules, rigorous rules of conduct and loss of individual …
In 1991, the Ashaninka of the Ene and Tambo rivers organized themselves into Self-Defense Committees to confront the PCP-SL. This organization took place in the context of the Army's entry into Satipo at the end of 1991, when the armed forces compulsively organized the population into urban and peasant patrols. …
In 1991 there was a turning point in the Shining Path offensive in the Central Jungle region. The Armed Forces, together with the Asháninka population organized in Rondas or Self-Defense Committees, began an important counter-offensive that hit the PCP-SL hard, especially in the Ene River area. Between 1991 and 1993, …
In 1991, the Peruvian Army installed a counter-subversive base in Cutivireni, located in the district of Rio Tambo. This installation was part of a broader military strategy in which the Army established bases in strategic areas of the central jungle to combat the Shining Path PCP. The base was established …
The year 1991 marked a decisive turning point in the PCP-Sendero Luminoso offensive in the Central Jungle region. Beginning that year, the Armed Forces, together with the Asháninka population organized in Rondas or Self-Defense Committees, began an important counter-offensive that hit the PCP-SL hard, especially in the Ene River area. …
After the ordinary congress of the Central Asháninka del Río Tambo from July 18 to 20, 1990, an armed column of the Shining Path PCP, made up of more than sixty people, including settlers and natives, kidnapped three indigenous leaders. Those kidnapped were Pablo Santoma Santos, president of CART (Central …
The ordinary congress of the Central Asháninka del Río Tambo (CART) was held from July 18 to 20, 1990. At the end of the congress, an armed column of the Shining Path PCP, made up of more than sixty people including settlers and natives, kidnapped three indigenous leaders: Pablo Santoma …
When approximately 10 Ashaninka tried to escape from Shining Path captivity, the subversives began to kill all the Ashaninka in the group. They took them under false pretenses, telling them they would live alone and happy, but they killed them with axes, machetes and knives. The children also had their …
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 …
By the end of 1990, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso managed to establish absolute control over the entire Ene River and the upper Tambo up to the Poyeni bend. This control was the result of an intensification of actions that began in 1989, when PCP-SL increased its presence through regular visits to …
The VI Congress of the Central Asháninka del Río Tambo (CART) was held in the community of Mayapo in 1990, where it officially expressed its rejection of the PCP-SL. In the middle of the congress, a contingent of 60 hikers, including settlers and Asháninka, led by HP, entered the community …
During 1990, the Asháninka Army, organized through the Asháninka Self-Defense and Development Central Committee No. 1, began patrolling the Bajo Tambo area. The same year there were several attacks against the PCP-SL Main Force, concentrated mainly in Cheni and Anapati, communities neighboring Otica. These attacks were part of the organized …
In mid-1989, in the central jungle, the PCP-SL achieved absolute control of the Ene River basin and part of the Tambo River basin, thus gaining control of the entire province of Satipo (Junín). This territorial control was achieved at the cost of the razing of dozens of communities, the murder …
By 1989, the presence of the PCP-SL in the Central Jungle was widespread and open, especially in the province of Satipo. The subversive group intensified its actions, reaching absolute control of the entire Ene River and Alto Tambo by 1990. During this year, PCP-SL increased its actions in the area, …
In 1989, the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) significantly intensified its actions in the province of Satipo, reaching absolute control of the entire Ene River and the Alto Tambo up to the Poyeni bend by 1990. During this year, PCP-SL increased its actions in the area, carrying …
Shining Path forcibly recruited a 13-year-old boy in the Puerto Nuevo Ashaninka Native Community. The boy tells how the subversives hanged and filleted with knives children who did not obey their mothers, cutting them to the heart to kill them and then bury them. This testimony shows the brutality of …
A 13-year-old boy recounts his recruitment by the Shining Path in the Ashaninka community. He says 'when I was little I didn't know what life was like, I practically opened my eyes to it, I thought it was the truth'. From 5 to 10 years old, they were pioneers and …
In October 1984, the Shining Path PCP carried out an attack by setting fire to the Franciscan mission of Cutivireni, located on the Tambo River. The attack also included the destruction of a farm and houses near the mission. This event was part of the systematic work of penetration and …
The PCP-SL set fire to the Franciscan Mission of Cutivireni in the Tambo River, along with a farm and nearby houses. This attack marked the beginning of systematic violent actions by the PCP-SL in the central jungle, after a work of penetration and recruitment of native community leaders that began …
On May 17, 1984, an event occurred that disconcerted the population of Cutivireni, in the district of Rio Tambo. This event marked one of the first significant moments of the PCP-SL presence in the area. The news of the war initiated by the PCP-SL years before arrived late to the …
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