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 2, 1992, the Colina detachment kidnapped and murdered 9 peasants from Santa. The victims were detained and then executed or disappeared. The victims' relatives filed Habeas Corpus appeals that were declared inadmissible by the Judicial Power. The bodies were buried clandestinely using lime to make it difficult to …
On May 2, 1992, the Colina Group, a death squad, committed severe human rights violations against nine individuals in the district of Santa, near Chimbote, Peru. These violations included infringements on their rights to freedom and life. The region was strategically important due to conflicts between the Shining Path and …
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 …
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The murdered victims of La Cantuta return, the disappeared from Santa, from Ucayali, from Huancayo, from Lima, from Huancavelica, from Huánuco, from Ayacucho. The ghosts return to haunt — four …