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.
On May 6, 1993, General EP Rodolfo Robles Espinoza made public a letter accusing Army commanders of maintaining an operational command responsible for the Barrios Altos massacre and other crimes. This allegation backed up Congressman Henry Pease Garcia's earlier revelations about the existence of a DINTE Special Operations Team. The …
Mrs. Amalia Tolentino was intercepted by a military patrol of 70 soldiers on April 8, 1993 when she was traveling with other people from Puerto de Moyuna to Huánuco. She was the victim of rape by the soldiers during this transfer. Mrs. Tolentino reported the incident to the Special Prosecutor's …
MRTA attacked a military van, killing a captain and two soldiers. In response, two leaders of the Agrarian Federation were assassinated.
General (r) Enrique López Albújar Trint, former Minister of Defense of Alan García's government, was ambushed by three guerrillas who riddled him with bullets while he was driving his car without the members of his personal security. According to Victor Polay Campos, it was an agreement and decision of a …
On January 6, 1990, in Angashyacu, the PCP-SL decreed an armed strike and left a bomb at the door of Anatolio Trujillo's house. When the red flag was removed, the bomb exploded, injuring a member of the military. The military entered the house shooting and killed Anatolio with a bullet …
Martha Crisóstomo García, a witness to the Cayara events who worked at the Health Post, was murdered in Huamanga. She had been threatened with death for commenting on the Cayara events when President Alan Garcia arrived. She had also recognized the body of her aunt Jovita García Suárez when she …
A PCP-SL column attacked an army patrol from the Madre Mía base, a few hundred meters from the village, wounding a captain. The villagers fled into the jungle to escape retaliation from military patrols, which took two hours to arrive by land and with helicopter gunships that attacked the village, …
In response to what happened in Molinos, a subversive commando exploded a car bomb in the San Martin barracks, located in the district of Miraflores.
On April 12, 1989, between 4:30 and 5:00 a.m., a column of approximately fifty Shining Pathists took the main square of Chongos Alto and carried out a massacre against villagers who had agreed to oppose the PCP-SL. This repressive action was a response by the PCP-SL to the agreements made …
Assassination of retired General Enrique López Albújar in Lima, perpetrated by the MRTA in retaliation for the Molinos massacre. This was a condemnable assassination that constituted the organization's response to the execution of surrendered guerrillas.
On August 13, 1988, a mass grave containing several bodies was discovered in Cayara. This discovery occurred three months after the massacre of May 14, 1988, when members of the Peruvian Army entered the district of Cayara in retaliation for an ambush on a military convoy. During that raid, the …
On July 25, 1988, Shining Path ambushed a military patrol at the Abancay Base, resulting in the death and wounding of several military personnel. The following day, several soldiers entered the community of Cruz Pata and detained the husband of a witness. They began to beat him and brought several …
In an ambush on a military patrol at the Rondos bridge, 13 soldiers were killed, generating a brutal response in which 20 presumed Shining Path members lost their lives, although according to family members, most of them were peasants who were not part of the subversion.
Hooded persons (presumably military) entered the homes of residents of Cayara and forcibly detained them. Gregorio Ipurre Ramos, Guzmán Palomino Bautista, Humberto Ipurre, Benigna Palomino de Ipurre and Catalina Ramos Palomino disappeared. According to witnesses, these people had denounced to President Alan Garcia Perez the excesses perpetrated in Cceschua, which …
Members of the Army stationed at the Chalhuanca Base arrested Pedro Carbajal Roldán (who had escaped capture earlier) and his brother Fabián Carbajal Roldán, accusing them of having participated in subversive actions. Both were victims of brutal torture. This action constituted a reprisal against Pedro for having managed to escape …
On May 14, 1988, members of the Peruvian Army, in retaliation for an ambush on a convoy, entered the district of Cayara in the province of Victor Fajardo. They gathered the entire population and killed 35 peasants without explanation. On May 21, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers denied …
On May 13, 1988, in retaliation for a Shining Path PCP column ambushing an Army convoy in the vicinity of the community, a law enforcement patrol raided Cayara. Law enforcement forces gathered the population in the community and killed 28 peasants in cold blood. This was one of the most …
On May 13, 1988, a column of the Shining Path PCP ambushed an army convoy in the vicinity of the community of Cayara. In retaliation for this attack, a law enforcement patrol raided the community of Cayara, gathered the population in the plaza and killed 28 peasants in cold blood. …
On August 23, 1987, a PCP-SL column entered the hamlet of El Montón, in the district of Cachachi, Cajabamba province. The Shining Path guerrillas murdered the Lieutenant Governor, the former Justice of the Peace, a local worker and his son. In addition, a teacher was shaved by the Shining Pathists …
In the first days of August 1986, the city of Cuzco suffered a series of attacks, apparently in response to the prison massacre that took place in Lima in June of that year. These attacks demonstrate the national coordination of the PCP-SL and its capacity to respond to State actions.
A subversive commando attacked with explosive charges the Officers' Casino of the Republican Guard as a reprisal against its members who had broken up a riot of PCP-SL inmates in the Lurigancho prison on October 4, resulting in the death of more than 30 people.
The emerretistas attacked the Playa Rímac police post in retaliation against the police who violently evicted thousands of residents who were illegally occupying the land of the former Garagay estate.
On September 29, 1984, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso disguised as police officers assassinated a group of peasants in Chilcayoc. This attack took place in a context of growing community opposition to Shining Path actions. Previously, on August 13 of the same year, another group of Chilcayoc community members on …
Juana Lidia Argumedo, sister of Juan Argumedo (guide of the journalists murdered in Uchuraccay in 1983), was arrested on September 15, 1984. After the Uchuraccay tragedy, Juana denounced the responsibility of the armed forces in the events. As a result of these denunciations, she was detained by the forces of …
On August 13, 1984, a group of community members from Chilcayoc who were on their way to Lima were murdered in Cochayoc, Belen, by members of the Shining Path. The perpetrators apparently came from the community of Belen. This attack was a reprisal by the PCP-SL against the community of …
On August 8, 1984, a large group of subversives of the PCP-SL entered the community of Pachaclla, located in the district of Yauli, province of Huancavelica. The community had organized incipient peasant patrols to defend themselves from Shining Path incursions. During this incursion, PCP-SL militants murdered the wife of a …
The PCP-SL attacked the new Civil Guard post in the town's main market, resulting in the death of several policemen. When a UMOPAR patrol was on its way from Tingo Maria to provide support, it was ambushed at the Pacae bridge, killing two policemen. When they arrived in Aucayacu, they …
In July 1984, the PCP-SL kidnapped and murdered villagers from Chontaccocha, in the Santa Rosa district. The attack occurred after the villagers participated in a census, despite previous warnings from the PCP-SL against doing so. This event was part of the Shining Path's strategy to punish communities that collaborated with …
On Christmas Eve 1983, the Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso carried out a new armed incursion into the community of Uchuraccay. This attack was part of a series of systematic reprisals by the PCP-SL against the community, which had staged one of the first peasant rebellions against the subversive organization …
Two days after the massacre, in retaliation for the denunciations, police officers executed teacher Victoria Cueto Janampa in her home, shooting her in the head. They also kidnapped and executed Vicente Quispe Flores, abandoning his body on the Huaytará bridge. They also murdered Javier Gutiérrez Gamboa, a young man who …
Fortunato Gavilán García, lieutenant governor of Uchuraccay, was killed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso when he tried to flee into the jungle. Gavilán had been a central figure in the events of January 1983, actively participating in the capture and threatening of peasants from Iquicha, whom he threatened to kill by …
In August 1983, the PCP-SL raided the community of Huaychao, killing 5 community members. This attack was part of a series of reprisals by the PCP-SL against the communities of the Huanta highlands that had organized against them. Huaychao had been the scene in January 1983 of the first peasant …
At midnight on July 16, 1983, after the feast of the Virgin of Carmen in Uchuraccay, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the community, killing another 20 Uchuraccaínos. This attack was part of a series of systematic reprisals by the PCP-SL against the Uchuraccay community, which had led one of the first …
On July 16, 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out its second bloody attack against the community of Uchuraccay. In this raid, approximately 20 people were killed. This attack was part of a series of three PCP-SL raids against Uchuraccay in 1983, in retaliation for the murder of journalists and hikers …
The PCP-SL raided Uchuraccay on three occasions: May 20, July 16 and December 24, 1983. In total, there were 135 deaths in Uchuraccay out of 470 community members registered in the 1981 census, that is, a third of the population was killed by the violent action mainly of the PCP-SL, …
In the early morning of May 20, 1983, days before the feast of the Holy Spirit, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the community of Uchuraccay and killed around 20 villagers. This attack was part of a series of reprisals by the PCP-SL against the community, which had staged one of the …
On May 20, 1983, during the feast of the Holy Spirit (Corpus Christi), the Shining Path PCP carried out its first reprisal attack against Uchuraccay for the participation of its community members in the death of the journalists on January 26. The attackers shouted threats saying that they would finish …
On May 20, 1983, the PCP-SL carried out the first of three bloody attacks against the community of Uchuraccay. In this first raid, around 20 peasants were killed. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's retaliation against Uchuraccay, after the community members murdered eight journalists on January 26, 1983 and …
In May 1983, the PCP-SL raided the community of Huaychao, killing 4 community members. This attack was part of a series of reprisals by the PCP-SL against the communities of the Huanta highlands that had organized against them. The community of Huaychao had led the first peasant reaction against Shining …
On April 3, 1983, the PCP-SL attacked Lucanamarca in one of the worst massacres of the civilian population of the internal armed conflict. Approximately eighty subversives under Horacio's command entered at dawn, starting with the ranches in the puna. At ten o'clock in the morning they arrived at the town. …
Civil guard Edwin Heredia Sotomayor was murdered by the PCP-SL two blocks from the Ninth Police Station of the Civil Guard in Huamanga as he was leaving work. A few days later, economist Flavio Quispe Huamán died of a bullet to the head. The murder, which occurred in unclear circumstances, …
After the events of January 26, 1983, when Uchuraccay villagers murdered eight journalists, believing them to be members of the Shining Path, the community suffered devastating reprisals. The Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path carried out multiple attacks against Uchuraccay throughout 1983 and 1984, killing more than a hundred villagers. The …
In 1983, a group of journalists was murdered in Uchuraccay, Ayacucho. Juan Argumedo acted as the journalists' guide during this tragic event. After the tragedy, his sister Juana Lidia Argumedo denounced the responsibility of the armed forces in the events. As a result of her denunciation, Juana was arrested on …
Silvio Chávez Soto, secretary of the Uchuraccay community, was kidnapped around mid-1983 and presumably killed by the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path. Before the kidnapping, Chavez Soto had filed complaints against Severino Huascar Morales Ccente, who had been responsible for the PCP-SL in the area, for the theft …
On the night of March 2, 1982, the subversive attack on the CRAS of Ayacucho took place. In the confrontation 10 subversives were killed and two more were wounded and taken to the Ayacucho General Base Hospital where three other presumed subversives were recovering. At 2:00 a.m. on March 3, …
In 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso executed several peasants from the communities of Ninabamba and Mollebamba in retaliation. This action was a direct response to the capture of five members of Sendero Luminoso by law enforcement and ronderos in the area. Those captured had been transferred and five of them subsequently …
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