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 July 10, 1990, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the SAIS Sollocota in the province of Azángaro, department of Puno, killing 7 peasants. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to destroy the associative enterprises created by the agrarian reform, in opposition to the peasant mobilizations that sought the democratic …
In the early morning of January 20, 1990, the Main Force of the PCP-SL headed by Juan Carlos Olivares attacked the SAIS Sollocota with 30 of its activists, resulting in the murder of 7 peasants. That same day, during an attack on the Azángaro market, 5 additional people were killed. …
In the early morning of January 20, 1990, the Main Force of the PCP-SL led by Juan Carlos Olivares attacked the SAIS Sollocota with 30 of its activists. This confrontation marked a turning point in the activity of the PCP-SL in the region, since after this event the actions of …
In May 1989, the PCP-SL set fire to the SAIS 'La Pauca', one of the last associative enterprises in the San Marcos region. This attack was part of the Shining Path's strategy of systematic liquidation of the associative enterprises created during the Agrarian Reform. The destruction of La Pauca was …
On April 5, 1989, the Shining Path guerrillas murdered a Municipal Agent and a watchman of the Production Unit in the town square of Chaquicocha. This attack was part of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against local authorities and SAIS workers in the Alto Cunas area. The event occurred …
On February 2, 1989, PCP-SL militants took over the Colpa farm in Junin. During this raid, the hikers knifed to death 157 sheep and 6 cattle. In addition, they wounded another 10 animals and took 8 cattle. This attack was part of the systematic strategy of the PCP-SL to destroy …
On May 14, 1988, the first victims were registered in Bajo Cunas when the hikers murdered an employee of an auditing company in the Colca Production Unit of the SAIS 'Heroínas Toledo', located in the district of Chambará, with two bullets to the head. This event marks the beginning of …
On May 5, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the SAIS Picotani located in Crucero, Sandia province. During the attack, the Shining Path guerrillas destroyed the facilities of the associative enterprise. The attack resulted in the murder of six police officers and the local justice of the peace. Subsequently, teacher and …
On May 5, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an armed raid on the SAIS Picotani, located in Crucero, province of Sandia, department of Puno. During the attack, the subversives killed 6 civilian guards and the local justice of the peace. As a consequence of this attack, the teacher and …
Between March 1988 and January 1989, Shining Path carried out violent actions against the SAIS Heroínas Toledo and Cahuide in the central highlands. The SAIS Heroínas Toledo was deactivated in March 1988 after the total destruction of its facilities and assets by the Shining Path. This destruction was part of …
On October 25, 1986, PCP-SL (Shining Path) militants killed the Administrator of the Consacc Production Unit and wounded the Deputy Administrator. Consacc was one of the production units of SAIS Túpac Amaru, located in the province of Jauja. This attack was part of a systematic campaign of destruction of the …
On September 19, 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the SAIS Huayna Capac in Muñani. This attack was part of a series of violent actions carried out between September 18 and 21, 1986 in the province of Azángaro. During these days, the PCP-SL also kidnapped 20 peasant delegates in Azángaro, assassinated …
On July 22, 1986, a subversive contingent of the PCP-SL took over the farmhouse of the Atoccsaico Production Unit, one of the seven production units of the SAIS Túpac Amaru. During this raid, the Shining Path militants assassinated the Administrator of the production unit. This attack was part of a …
On June 3, 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso burned the SAIS Union headquarters in Azángaro and distributed the cattle among the population. This attack was part of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against the associative companies created by the agrarian reform, which they considered an expression of a semi-feudal society …
In May 1986, the PCP-SL began an offensive in the department of Puno that started on May 5 with an attack against the Secretary General of the PAP in Ayaviri. During this offensive, the subversive group burned the Cayacayani farm, belonging to SAIS San José, and also set fire to …
On January 10, 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an attack against the Agricultural Societies of Social Interest (SAIS) San José and Illari in the department of Puno. Five people were killed in this attack. This attack was part of a wider offensive by the PCP-SL in Puno that continued …
The PCP-SL carried out an attack against the SAIS San José and the SAIS Illari in the province of Azángaro. During the raid, the attackers killed 5 people. As part of the action, they blew up the bridge connecting these associative companies with the city of Azángaro. This attack was …
At the beginning of 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso managed to remove the police posts in the province of Azángaro, Puno. This event occurred after the PCP-SL declared the provinces of Melgar, Azángaro and Huancané as "red zones" in August 1985. The situation of the internal armed conflict in this area …
On December 22, 1985, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the facilities of the SAIS (Sociedad Agraria de Interés Social) Túpac Amaru. During the subversive incursion, they burned seven vehicles and set fire to the SAIS facilities. This attack was part of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against the …
In August 1985, the United Federation of Peasants of Melgar (FUCAM) decided to promote the 'disaffiliation of estates' in order to break the unity of the associative enterprises that had emerged from the Agrarian Reform. This strategy was part of the process of 'democratic restructuring' of the land that sought …
In August 1985, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso declared the provinces of Melgar, Azángaro and Huancané as 'red zones', although according to the CVR report the reality was quite different from this declaration. This period was characterized by the actions of the PCP-SL, which included dynamite theft, dynamiting bridges, knocking down high …
In 1985, most of the Agricultural Societies of Social Interest (SAIS) and Agricultural Production Cooperatives (CAP) in small plots were dissolved. This process occurred after a period of economic and administrative crisis of these associative enterprises created during the Agrarian Reform. The dissolution of these business structures was used by …
The PCP-SL began an offensive by destroying the SAIS Quenamari in San Antón, Azángaro province. This action was part of a broader campaign that included the capture of the towns of Chupa and Azángaro in the same province. The attack on SAIS Quenamari was part of the Shining Path strategy …
In September 1984, the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) began operations with an armed column in the department of Puno. The actions of the PCP-SL in the provinces of Puno, Lampa, San Román and Azángaro were aimed at preparing the conditions for this armed column to begin …
On March 3, 1983, in the district of Chupuro (province of Huancayo), militants of the PCP-SL set fire to a transport vehicle belonging to the SAIS Cahuide. During the attack, two SAIS employees were injured. This attack was part of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against the installations of …
According to Rénique's study (1991), Shining Path incursions in Puno increased progressively: from 15 attacks in 1983 to 22 in 1984, 33 in 1985, 83 in 1986 (with 32 victims), 35 in 1987 (after being decimated in Cututuni), 77 in 1988 and 97 in 1989. The main targets were the …
On August 24, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the ERPS (Empresa Rural de Propiedad Social) Oxani, which belonged to the SAIS Sollocota, located in the province of Azángaro, department of Puno. This attack was part of the initial actions of the PCP-SL in the department of Puno during the period …
On August 24, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Oxani Social Property Rural Enterprise (ERPS), which belonged to the Sollocota Social Interest Agricultural Society (SAIS), located in the province of Azángaro. This attack was part of the Shining Path's strategy to destroy the associative companies created by the agrarian reform, …
On July 22, 1982, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso set fire to the warehouse of the Sociedad Agraria de Interés Social (SAIS) of Huancavelica. This attack was part of a series of subversive actions in the Vilca basin that intensified during that year. The objective of these actions was to …
On July 22, 1982, subversives of the PCP-SL threw Molotov cocktails against the materials warehouse of the SAIS "Huancavelica". This attack was part of the initial actions of the PCP-SL in the department of Huancavelica during the first years of the internal armed conflict. The attack was specifically directed against …
Alleged subversives set fire to the pastures of the SAIS "Ramón Castilla" in the province of Tarma. This event is part of a series of initial attacks by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against the Agrarian Societies of Social Interest (SAIS) in the central region of Peru. The attack is framed in …
In 1981, the first Shining Path incursion was recorded in Angasmarca, where the PCP-SL totally destroyed the SAIS "José de San Martín Limitada N° 19" cooperative. A group of approximately 30 PCP-SL troops carried out this action, during which they destroyed the SAIS facilities, looted and distributed the goods among …
In 1981, during the first wave of PCP-Sendero Luminoso violence in the province of Santiago de Chuco, members of the main Shining Path Shining Path forces carried out selective assassinations as part of their strategy to destroy the agrarian cooperatives. In SAIS San José, the Shining Path killed the administrator …
In 1981, the first Shining Path incursion was recorded in Angasmarca, where the PCP-SL totally destroyed the SAIS cooperative 'José de San Martín Limitada N° 19', which had been one of the largest farms in Santiago de Chuco and had been converted into SAIS in 1972. The Shining Path group, …
In 1981, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out assassinations in the SAIS Tahuantinsuyo, located in the province of Santiago de Chuco. According to the report, the PCP-SL assassinated more than 6 people in this Agricultural Society of Social Interest. This event is part of the initial strategy of the PCP-SL to …
On June 24, 1969, the government of the Armed Forces enacted the Agrarian Reform Law, which expropriated the agro-industrial complexes, thus initiating a process of radical changes. Different forms of cooperative and associative ownership were established, including the Agrarian Production Cooperatives (CAPs), the Agricultural Societies of Social Interest (SAIS), the …
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