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.
Thematic workshop organized by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) with displaced people and ronderos in Tingo Maria. During the workshop, testimonies were collected on the increase of common crime in the areas affected by the internal armed conflict. Participants expressed the difficulties in controlling common criminals and the need …
Workshop conducted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission with ronderos from the Apurimac River Valley in Ayacucho. The workshop was carried out in the context of the collection of testimonies on the internal armed conflict. Participants discussed issues related to the organization of the rondas campesinas, the impact of political …
On December 12, 1999, an armed confrontation took place in Alto Sonaveni, district of Satipo, province of Junin, between peasant ronderos and militants of Sendero Rojo (PCP-SL faction). During the confrontation, two ronderos were shot and wounded. This incident occurred in the context of the residual presence of the PCP-SL …
On January 24, 1996, in San Martin Pangoa, a district in the province of Satipo in Junin, there was a confrontation between ronderos and militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. During this confrontation, the PCP-SL killed three ronderos. This event occurred in the context of the final phase of the internal …
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 …
Ronderos from Naranjillo killed eight repentant people in Shamiro in November 1995. This occurred in the context of the application of the law of repentance, which had been increasingly successful between 1993 and 1994 in the region. Some repentants were subsequently killed by the peasant patrols themselves, as also happened …
Ronderos of the Self-Defense Committee murder ten settlers in Chanchamayo, La Merced. This case exemplifies the excesses committed by some self-defense committees.
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 September 12, 1992, the ronderos of Asillo confronted the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in a battle that resulted in the death of seven subversives. This confrontation took place in the context of organized peasant resistance against the subversive presence in the Puno area. The event occurred shortly before the capture of …
On March 2, 1992, ronderos from the community of Andamarca, located in the department of Junin, kidnapped Irma Juscamayta Arteaga along with her five daughters. The ronderos justified the kidnapping on the grounds that Irma Juscamayta sympathized with the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL). This event occurred …
On January 12, 1992, there was a violent confrontation between ronderos and subversives in Tarmatambo, La Merced district, Chanchamayo province. The combat resulted in the death of 8 ronderos and 5 subversives. This confrontation occurred in the context of the intensification of violence in the central jungle during 1989-1992, a …
On October 28, 1991, the ronderos of the Pitatos community kidnapped leader Lidia López along with six other members of her family, including several children. According to newspaper reports at the time, the ronderos were acting on orders from military leaders. This kidnapping occurred in the context of multiple reports …
On July 30, 1991, there was a confrontation between the 'ronderos' (members of the Self-Defense Committees) of Santa Rosa and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the province of Grau, Apurímac. This confrontation is framed in the period of counter-subversive strategies (1989-1992), when the Armed Forces established an alliance with the peasantry …
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 …
4 ronderos from the area of Tocto in the province of Chumbivilcas were killed. This attack against ronderos is evidence of the violence of the PCP-SL against peasant self-defense organizations that opposed their presence.
The PCP-SL attempted an attack on the city of Tingo Maria using Naranjillo as a base. Approximately 500 well-armed subversives entered from 11:00 p.m. on the 15th, but were intercepted by the Peruvian army that had been alerted by a rondero. A fierce confrontation ensued that lasted until 9:00 a.m., …
A column of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso executed five peasant ronderos in the province of Chumbivilcas. This attack was part of the Shining Path's strategy to confront the nascent peasant patrols that were being promoted by the military bases in the highland provinces. The PCP-SL considered the community patrols as "mesnadas" …
After the confrontation of September 25, 1990 in the area known as 'La Roca' between ronderos and PCP-SL, many displaced villagers from the Tsiriari valley interpreted this event as a defeat for the Shining Path. This perception of victory over the subversive group generated conditions that the villagers considered safer …
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 …
On April 19, 1991, ronderos from Musoqpampa, in the district of La Merced, entered the town of Ccásir and arrested Pedro Cajamarca Navarro, a young man who had been recruited against his will by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The ronderos handed him over to the military at the counter-subversive base in …
In April 1991, soldiers from the Misquipata base detained and tortured ronderos Higinio Quispe Pérez and Eleuterio Inga Quispilaya. This event occurred in the context of the organization of Self-Defense Committees in the Alto and Bajo Cunas area, where the Army had established a military base in April 1990 to …
The Chillca Huayco massacre occurred on September 21, 1990 in the department of Ayacucho. It was perpetrated by ronderos and the military, resulting in the death of 27 people: 15 men and 12 women. The event included sexual violence against the victims. This massacre forms part of the pattern of …
On February 17, 1990, the Confederation of Amazonian Nationalities of Peru (CONAP) published a communiqué denouncing the violence in the central jungle. This communiqué followed the massacre of fifteen ronderos in the community of Dos de Mayo and in a context of intolerable conditions of insecurity in the region. CONAP …
The Shining Path PCP assassinated 15 ronderos from the Tsiriari valley communities in Dos de Mayo. This provoked the affected communities to move to Mazamari in search of protection. The assassination occurred in the context of the control that the PCP-SL had been developing in the Satipo area, which turned …
In 1990, the PCP-SL committed selective assassinations in colonist communities in the Tsiriari valley, including Union, Santa Isabel, Dos de Mayo, San Francisco de Cubaro and Monterrico. The massacre of fifteen ronderos in Dos de Mayo was a crucial event that marked the massive displacement of Tsiriari valley communities to …
When the police posts in the districts of Huambalpa, Carhuanca and Vischongo were withdrawn in 1990, terrorists immediately entered and began burning the Council. The PCP-SL assassinated those it considered traitors in raids on the district annexes, demonstrating that it had not completely disappeared from the area despite the military …
In November 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 22 peasants in the town of Paccha, Vinchos district. The victims included ronderos and local community authorities. This attack occurred in the context of the second wave of sustained confrontations between the PCP-SL and the peasant patrols that took place between 1989 and …
On July 16, 1989, the MRTA prepared an attack on the town of Juanjuí. Apparently, a rondero had managed to warn the Army and its members were able to prepare and confront the attack. In the confrontation, forty bodies were left dead among a large number of subversives, some civilians …
On April 12, 1989, Self-Defense Committees began to be organized in the various provinces of the department of Apurimac. This organization was part of a new counter-subversive strategy implemented by the Armed and Police Forces between 1988 and 1989, a period that saw the highest death toll of the internal …
On February 28, 1989, one of the most bloody confrontations between the Self-Defense Committees and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso took place in the community of San Francisco, province of Abancay, Apurimac. This confrontation resulted in the death of 30 ronderos (members of the Self-Defense Committees). The event occurred in the context …
In February 1989, a column of more than 300 hikers arrived in the village of Canayre in boats from the Ene River. The attackers first killed the village's watchmen. Subsequently, the hikers asked the authorities for a list of landowners. According to testimonies, they killed 37 villagers, selecting some landowners …
On September 19, 1988, twenty hooded ronderos arrived at the Chacapuquio annex and called a meeting in town. After gathering them together, they began to mistreat them all. One villager saw a member of his community being beaten and asked the group the reason for the mistreatment, at which point …
The Pampa Coris massacre was perpetrated on June 24, 1988 by members of the Peruvian Army and ronderos. During this military incursion, there was a pattern of behavior involving the rape of women prior to execution. The commandos executed the men first to prevent them from screaming or rebelling against …
On another bloody Christmas Eve, December 24, 1987, Shining Path raided the village of Rinconada near Pichihuilca. The terrorist incursion ended with the death of twelve ronderos. In addition, the Shining Path forcibly recruited 15 young boys and girls under the age of 14 and took them away. This attack …
In the province of La Convención, 50 ronderos were killed in the Quimbiri area. This event occurred during the first half of 1986, a period in which there were multiple murders of peasants and attacks on villages in the province. The event is part of the chronology of violence in …
On December 6, 1985, the ronderos of Totora confronted the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This confrontation occurred in the context of a series of Shining Path actions in the Vilcabamba area during November 1985, when the PCP-SL had restarted its actions by taking over several villages and recruiting youths between 10 and …
On November 21, 1985, hikers set fire to 26 houses in Incahuasi. Among the dead were peasants Melquiades Ccoyao, Ladislao Mendoza and two unidentified people. The operation was carried out by the ronderos with the support of Army soldiers in the Accobamba area. During the operation they captured another 20 …
The Hatunpampa ronderos confronted the PCP-SL in a combat that is part of the organized peasant resistance against the Shining Path in the Vilcabamba area. This confrontation occurred in the context of the expansion of the counter-subversive peasant patrols in the Apurimac River Valley and surrounding areas. In November of …
On December 5, 1984, in the district of Puca, province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho, 120 members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 22 ronderos. This attack was part of the escalation of violence that characterized 1984 in the emergency zone of Ayacucho. The event occurred in the context of confrontations …
A Civil Guard patrol accompanied by Incahuasi ronderos carried out an operation in Lucmahuaycco. According to the police report, a guerrilla base was detected in the Cacaopampa sector at 5:30 am, capturing 18 elderly women, 2 minors and 7 men after an alleged armed confrontation. On the same day at …
Members of the Civil Guard and ronderos detained, tortured and killed Ignacio Pahuara Lima, his wife Herminia Pacheco Rimachi and their neighbor Jesusa Sánchez Chacas in the Milhar area. Ignacio had come down from the hill where he was hiding, relying on a police credential. Also injured was Lorenza Pahuara …
On the way to Lucmahuaycco, members of the Civil Guard and ronderos killed seven peasants in the Vacachacra area. The victims were tortured, executed and then burned. Among those identified were Pedro Casa Saca (25), Fabián Salcedo Coronado (40), Silvio Delgado Moraya (40), Fabián Cruz Pepa (40), Marcelo Díaz Cusi …
Marcos de La Cruz Quispe, a rondero from the district of Acobambilla, was murdered by PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants on November 11, 1984. This murder occurred two days after the PCP-SL executed a teacher, the municipal agent and the district governor of Acobambilla, who were also accused of being 'informers'. The …
On November 9, 1984, in the district of Acobambilla, Huancavelica province, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered three local authorities. The victims were a teacher, the municipal agent and the district governor, who were executed accused of being "informers". Two days later, on November 11, the Shining Path also assassinated …
In November 1984, approximately 40 subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the village of Lucmahuaycco, located in Cusco, in order to raise awareness among the population. At approximately 11 p.m. that same day, the forces of law and order together with the Mollebamba ronderos entered the village. As a result …
In August 1984, members of the Peruvian Army (EP) detained, tortured and killed 2 ronderos in Santa Rosa. This event occurred in the context of the formation of the Counter-Subversive Civil Defense Forces (DECAS) in the Apurimac River Valley and the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the area. …
In April 1984, near Huallhua in the Chakiqmayo ravine, a group of displaced people from Tastabamba, Huallhua and Oronqoy were brutally murdered. Those responsible for this massacre were the Andahuaylas security forces and the Mollebamba ronderos. The victims were displaced civilians seeking refuge in the area during the internal armed …
In the first half of 1984, there were mass killings of Lucmahuayco villagers by law enforcement and ronderos. The town, located on the right bank of the Apurimac a few kilometers upriver from Quillabamba, was razed to the ground because, according to the Inkawasi ronderos, it was "a Shining Path …
In July 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso perpetrated a massacre against ronderos and community members in Buenavista, Los Morochucos district, Cangallo province. This attack took place in the context of the intensification of violence in the region during 1983, a year that registered the highest number of deaths in the department …
In July 1983, there was an armed confrontation between columns of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and ronderos from Vilcashuamán. This event took place in the context of the generalized violence that characterized 1983 in the area, with the highest number of deaths in the region. The confrontation was part of the …
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