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 April 22, 1997 at 3:27 p.m., Operation Chavin de Huantar was launched to rescue 71 hostages from the Japanese ambassador's residence. The operation was led by EP Colonel José Williams Zapata with 143 commandos. Explosives were detonated under the room where the ambassadors were playing soccer. Magistrate Carlos Giusti …
The hostage crisis ends with the military intervention that achieves the release of the hostages kidnapped in the Japanese ambassador's residence. There are 17 victims: the member of the Supreme Court, Carlos Giusti Acuña; two officers of the EP; and the 14 MRTA subversives who assaulted the residence. After the …
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