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.
Fr. Alessandro Dordi, an Italian missionary, was murdered in Santa. This murder occurred just two weeks after the murder of the two Polish Franciscans, as part of the escalation of violence by the Shining Path against foreign pastoral agents. The priest was working on pastoral projects with local communities.
An Italian priest was murdered in the town of Santa, province of Santa, department of Ancash. This crime occurred in the context of a series of attacks against religious in the region during August 1991. Days earlier, on August 9, a group of subversives had assassinated the mayor of Pariacoto …
Fr. Alessandro Dordi, an Italian parish priest from Santa, was the victim of an ambush when he was returning from celebrating Mass and Baptisms in Vinzos, accompanied by two catechists. The terrorists forced him to get out of the vehicle and shot him twice, once in the chest and once …
Shining Path attempted to assassinate the priest of the diocese of Chimbote, Father Miguel Company, but the attack failed, seriously wounding him. This assassination attempt is part of a systematic campaign against pastoral agents of the Catholic Church. The priest survived but was seriously wounded.
The Italian priest José Viscardi was kidnapped and threatened with death in Tambobamba, Cotabambas province. This is evidence of the violence of the PCP-SL against representatives of the Catholic Church in rural areas.
On June 16, 1989, the Shining Path PCP attacked the Huaripampa police post in the province of Junin. During the attack, two policemen and the local parish priest were killed. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that multiplied during the second half of 1989 in the …
On December 3, 1987, members of the PCP-SL assassinated priest Victor Acuña Cardenas while he was celebrating mass in the Magdalena church in Huamanga. The priest was accused by Shining Path of negotiating food donations for Caritas. This murder occurred in a context of relative calm in the region between …
The Spanish priest Vicente Hondarza, pastor of the Matriz Church of Chancay, was murdered. The corpse was delivered by the police to the hospital of Chancay at 8 o'clock at night. Although the authorities maintained the version of an accident, his clothes were clean, but the body presented numerous scoriations, …
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