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 14, 1996, there was an armed confrontation between members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and peasant patrols in the town of Santo Domingo, located in the Conchucos area. The confrontation resulted in the death of two hikers. This event occurred in the context of the decline of Shining Path …
On January 24, 1996, in San Martin Pangoa, a district of Satipo province in Junin, there was a confrontation between peasant ronderos and PCP-Sendero Luminoso forces. During this confrontation, the PCP-SL killed three ronderos. This event occurred in the context of the final period of the cycle of violence in …
Hugo Zapata Gutiérrez, a teacher, was kidnapped and murdered by ronderos in Ulcumayo, a district in the province of Junín. This event occurred in a context of violence where the peasant patrols, which had been organized to combat the Shining Path, committed abuses against villagers. The murder took place in …
In February 1994, ronderos from Las Palmas killed two people who had taken advantage of the law of repentance. This occurred in the context of the implementation of the repentance law, which was increasingly successful between 1993 and 1994 in the region. The repentants were people who had left the …
In 1994, Army troops withdrew from the Tulumayo after having established a counter-subversive base in Comas since July 1992. Control of the region continued under the control of the Tulumayo peasant patrols, which had achieved, together with the army's operations, the definitive destruction of the Shining Path groups throughout the …
On October 16, 1993, in a ceremony similar to those held in Ayacucho and Huallaga, the army gave weapons to the ronderos to fight for pacification in the communities of Pasqueña in the Chaupihuaranga ravine. The communities benefited were Paucar, Tangor, Vilcabamba, Chango, Mito, Huarautambo, Choquicancha, Chipiputa, Hualacircas, Rocco, San …
Cosme Ríos, head of the ronderos of the Siusa annex, was killed along with another member of the defense force there by presumed subversives. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that also took place in the towns of Paccha, Tiso, Suytucancha and Ñahuinpuquio during the same …
In July 1993, peasant ronderos from Santa Rosa detained a group of people in the context of the internal armed conflict. During this event, 4 people were detained and 21 people were killed by the ronderos. This event is part of the period of violence between the counter-subversive peasant patrols …
On June 10, 1993, the peasant patrols of Rodiobamba, in the district of Cachachi, Cajabamba province, received weapons in the city of Cajamarca from the Peruvian Army. This event was part of the counter-subversive strategy implemented since 1992, when the Peruvian Army encouraged the creation of Self-Defense Committees promoted and …
Segundo Lozada, leader of the peasant patrols, is arrested without a warrant at his home in Montegrande, Jaen. Lozada was defending the autonomy of his organization against the government's imposition to create the so-called Self-Defense Committees in the area.
Between 1993 and 1995, the defeat and disarticulation of the PCP-SL was consolidated in the central region. Its presence was reduced to some rural areas, such as the left bank of the Ene River basin in Satipo, from where it sporadically made incursions into communities in the districts of Pangoa …
The II Regional Meeting of Peasant Patrols was held in San Antonio de Cumbaza in 1993, as part of a process of consolidation of the organizations of peasant patrols in the department of San Martin. This meeting was organized by OPASM (Oficina Prelatural de Acción Social de Moyobamba) in conjunction …
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 …
In 1993, in the ex-SAIS of Tabacal, Cachachi district, Cajabamba province, a self-defense committee was formed in response to the pressure and violence exerted by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This process is framed in the context of the counter-subversive strategy that promoted the formation of Self-Defense Committees to complement military and …
On November 11, 1992, the government promulgated the Regulation on the Organization and Functions of the Self-Defense Committees. This regulation was promulgated one year after Legislative Decrees No. 740 and No. 741 of November 1991, which had established the legal framework for the recognition of the Self-Defense Committees. The regulation …
In November 1992, there was a confrontation between the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the peasant patrols in Torrerumi, Sivia district. The local ronderos went out to look for the Shining Path guerrillas after they had killed two villagers in a previous raid. This confrontation is part of the dynamics of violence …
On September 12, 1992, the ronderos of Asillo confronted the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in a combat that resulted in the death of 7 members of the subversive organization. This confrontation took place in the context of the growing organization of counter-subversive peasant patrols in the department of Puno. The event is …
The military detachment installed in Comas in 1991 became a counter-subversive base in July 1992. Until then, since the first months of 1990, the peasant patrols were in charge of controlling internal order and the administration of justice, with relative autonomy, assuming all the functions of the communal and local …
On March 24, 1992, the PCP-SL assassinated three leaders of the peasant patrols of the Chaquicocha peasant community as they were on their way to Huancayo. This occurred in the district of Pilcomayo, province of Huancayo, in the context of the confrontation between the peasant self-defense organizations and the subversive …
On March 5, 1992, in the villages of Pihuan, Jurau-Cochas, in Cajatambo, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 10 people for supporting the formation of peasant patrols. The victims were: Máximo Herbozo Tolentino, Cristina Morales Blas, Elena Herbozo Morales, Eusebio Tolentino Navarro, Cirilo Tolentino Medina, Jorge Estrada Mendoza, Perpetua Chavarría López, Máximo …
The ronderos captured the murderers of the sub-prefect of Huancayo in the district of Comas, province of Concepcion. After capturing them, the ronderos executed them and later 'fondearon' (threw them) in the Huacracocha lagoon. This event occurred in the context of the organization of peasant patrols that confronted the PCP-SL …
The peasant ronderos captured the murderers of the sub-prefect of Huancayo. After capturing them, they executed them and later 'fondearon' (threw them) in the Huacracocha lagoon. This event occurred in the context of the counter-subversive struggle in the Tulumayo region, where the peasant patrols had assumed the functions of internal …
On February 2, 1992, a PCP-SL contingent of approximately 50 men carried out a series of violent raids in several towns. In Huallamayo, Juan Córdova and three of his sons were murdered for promoting the organization of a peasant patrol. This action was part of a caravan of terror that …
On Sunday, February 2, 1992, a Shining Path PCP contingent of approximately fifty men entered several ranches in the district of Ulcumayo, in Junin. In Huallamayo, Juan Cordova and three of his sons were murdered for promoting the organization of a peasant patrol. This assassination was part of a caravan …
On February 2, 1992, a PCP-SL contingent of approximately fifty men entered the Chinchiaco and Marcapata ranches in the town of Tama, Ulcumayo district, in Junín. This attack was part of a wider campaign by the PCP-SL in 1992 to secure a strategic corridor in the area, carrying out a …
The I Encuentro de Rondas del Bajo Huallaga was held in Chazuta in 1992, as part of a series of meetings organized by OPASM (Oficina Prelatural de Acción Social de Moyobamba) and the peasant patrols of San Martin. This event was one of several regional meetings that sought to consolidate …
The I Encuentro de Rondas del Alto Mayo was organized by OPASM (Oficina Prelatural de Acción Social de Moyobamba) and the rondas campesinas in 1992 in Buenos Aires, San Martín. This meeting was part of a series of regional meetings of peasant patrols held that year to strengthen community organization. …
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 …
In 1992, Shining Path attacked a police station in the province of Huancavelica, resulting in the death of 4 policemen. This attack took place in a context where the communities of Julcamarca, with the support of the army and the ronderos of Lircay, were consolidating the Rondas Campesinas. The attack …
By 1992, the rift between Luzmila's family and the AC family had worsened in the Yavirironi community. Conflicts intensified because the AC family quickly took up the Army's proposal to form Self-Defense Committees, forming the Yavirironi patrol. Soldiers from the Satipo base, under the command of Captain Carlos Méndez, would …
In 1992, three ronderos from Misquipata were detained by military forces for missing rehearsals for the Fiestas Patrias parade. The ronderos were taken to the 'bote' (dungeon) of the Misquipata military base, where they were detained for 6 hours. This incident exemplifies the tensions and abuses that existed between the …
In 1992, the communities of Julcamarca managed to consolidate the Rondas Campesinas with the support of the army and the ronderos of Lircay. This consolidation process took place in a context of intensifying violence in the area, where the Shining Path had been systematically attacking members of the Rondas Campesinas. …
On November 28, 1991, the Senate approved a law regulating the peasant and urban patrols, defining them as popular, peaceful and democratic organizations. The main purposes established in this law are self-defense and active collaboration with national pacification. This legislation sought to regulate and provide a legal framework for the …
On November 8, 1991, Decree Law No. 741, called 'Law for the Recognition of the Self-Defense Committees', was enacted. This legal framework accepted the existence of multiple and diverse organizations of the civilian population, especially in rural areas, whose main function was to fight against subversion. According to the decree, …
On November 8, 1991, Decree Law No. 740 was enacted, days before the enactment of DL No. 741 on Self-Defense Committees. This decree established that the peasant patrols recognized by Law No. 24571 (mentioned but not completed in the text) would have a specific legal framework. The decree was part …
In November 1991, PCP-Sendero Luminoso terrorists assassinated 10 peasants in the town of Huari for belonging to the peasant patrols. This attack was part of a broader offensive against self-defense organizations in the area. The same month, another Shining Path column had raided the district of Santo Tomás de Pata, …
In November 1991, a Shining Path column raided the district of Santo Tomás de Pata and killed 37 members of the peasant patrols. This attack took place in the context of a PCP-SL offensive against the Self-Defense Committees, considered by the Shining Path as the main obstacle to its political-military …
On July 26, 1991, a column of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated four peasant ronderos in the area of Tocto, province of Chumbivilcas. This attack took place in the context of the confrontation between the PCP-SL and the nascent peasant patrols that were being promoted by the military bases in the …
A group of Sivia patrols, made up of ronderos from different communities, went to Sello de Oro where they clashed with hikers. The confrontation resulted in the death of 13 people. This event is framed in the context of the confrontations between the peasant patrols and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in …
In July 1991, residents of Quinua were killed by peasant patrols. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the Huamanga region. The peasant patrols of Quinua, along with other patrols in the area, were responsible for this collective murder. The event is …
On June 24, 1991, in the Chaquicocha annex, President Alberto Fujimori delivered shotguns and pickup trucks to the local ronderos. This event took place in the context of the consolidation of the Self-Defense Committees in the Alto and Bajo Cunas area, which had been organized since the end of 1989 …
In mid-June 1991, the army forced the formation of peasant patrols in the area of Huaycahuacho, in the province of Lucanas. As had happened so many times in previous years in various communities organized in Self-Defense Committees (CAD's), that same month members of the PCP-SL entered Huaycahuacho and assassinated six …
In mid-June 1991, the army forced the formation of peasant patrols in the area of Huaycahuacho, in the province of Lucanas. This forced formation of self-defense committees was part of the army's counter-subversive strategy in the region. As happened in other communities organized in CAD's in previous years, that same …
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, …
The I Regional Meeting of Peasant Patrols was held in Shapaja in 1991, marking an important milestone in the organization of the peasant patrols in the department of San Martin. During this meeting, by unanimous decision of the participants, the Prelatural Office of Social Action of Moyobamba (OPASM) was elected …
In January 1991, the Central Committee of the Rondas Campesinas of Alto and Bajo Cunas held a meeting with General EP Luis Pérez Documet, who was the Chief of the Political Military Command of the Mantaro Front. This meeting took place in the context of the organization and consolidation of …
In 1991, the Comité Central de Rondas Campesinas del Tulumayo received shotguns from the Army, marking a significant change in their defensive capacity. Since the beginning of 1990, the peasant patrols had been traveling the Tulumayo without firearms, in close coordination with the Army. With the delivery of the shotguns, …
The military detachment installed in Comas in 1991 became a counter-subversive base in July 1992. Until then, since the first months of 1990, the peasant patrols were in charge of controlling internal order and the administration of justice, with relative autonomy, assuming all the functions of the communal and local …
The process of forming the peasant patrols in the Canipaco Valley began in 1991, after the installation of military bases in the region. The military gathered as many people as possible from each community and explained the reasons and needs for organizing the patrols. This formation was part of the …
At the end of 1991, the Army entered the province of Satipo and compulsively organized the population into urban and peasant patrols. The native patrols, which had been confronting the PCP-SL on their own initiative, received support from the army. In 1991, the Ashaninka of the Ene and Tambo rivers …
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