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.
The younger sister of a witness was a victim of kidnapping, torture and subsequent death in Palian, Huancayo, Junin. The case was narrated by the victim's sister in her testimony before the TRC. This fact is part of the multiple cases of human rights violations documented in the Junin region …
Mother and daughter narrate the kidnapping and murder of family members that occurred in San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in October 2002 as part of the statements before the CVR. This case is part of the multiple murders and disappearances that affected …
As a consequence of the mandate of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Prosecutor Miguel Angel Vega Vaccaro of the 37th Provincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office of Lima filed a criminal complaint against Commander Juan Mejía León and 15 other officers for the crime of kidnapping of Ernesto Castillo Páez. The …
On November 26, 1996, retired General Rodolfo Robles was kidnapped and tried by the Supreme Council of Military Justice. Days before he had recognized Luis Sauñi as a member of the Colina Group on the program La Clave and made strong accusations against the secret operations of the SIN. His …
In December 1996, the MRTA took over the Japanese ambassador's residence, holding 490 people hostage. Juan Julio Wicht, S.J. Monsignor Juan Luis Cipriani intervened in the negotiations as president of the Commission of Guarantors. On April 23, 1997, the bloody seizure of the residence by government forces took place. Cipriani …
The Governor of the district of Pichanaqui and the Director of the Agrarian Development Fund (FONDEAGRO) of San Ramon were kidnapped by the MRTA in La Merced when they were returning from the inauguration of a medical post. The MRTA demanded money from the family members. They were released on …
In an operation, businessman Raul Hiraoka Torres, kidnapped by members of the MRTA, was freed while being held captive in a house in Lima, known as the people's prison. The Chileans Castillo Petruzzi, Pincheira Sáez, Mellado Saavedra and Astorga Valdez were captured in the operation.
Raúl Hiraoka Torres, son of the owner of the Hiraoka chain of stores, was kidnapped around 8:30 p.m. when he was driving a pickup truck in the Córpac neighborhood, San Isidro. His vehicle was hit by a pickup truck, and people got out and shot him with short-range weapons. The …
MRTA members kidnap businessman Raul Hiraoka Torres. This kidnapping is part of the MRTA's strategy to obtain resources by kidnapping businessmen.
Members of the MRTA assassinated mining businessman David Ballón Vera. Ballón Vera had been kidnapped in the middle of the street in the district of San Miguel, Lima, on September 11, 1992. When they did not reach an agreement on the amount to be paid for the ransom, they murdered …
On January 24, 1993, members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) kidnapped mining businessman David Vera Ballón. This kidnapping took place in a context of intense subversive activity in Metropolitan Lima, although already after the capture of Abimael Guzmán in September 1992. The kidnapping of the mining businessman was …
On September 24, 1993, Raúl Hiraoka Torres was transferred to a third building located on Vesalio Street, San Borja district. Eber Oliva Zegarra and Mirka de la Piedra Oliva were tenants there, and Lautaro Mellado Saavedra and María Concepción Pincheira were custodians. The abductee does not refer to mistreatment in …
Businessman Julio Enrique Uribe Tasayco was kidnapped at 8:30 a.m. at a commercial establishment on Circunvalación Avenue, San Luis. Two MRTA members wearing police uniforms and medical aprons entered the establishment and took him to a vehicle. During the captivity he remained in a completely closed wooden box approximately two …
At approximately 10:00 p.m. on September 23, 1992, Raul Hiraoka Torres was taken from the first building where he was being held captive to a second house located in Urbanizacion Aurora in Surquillo. He was blindfolded, handcuffed and a hood was placed over his head. This transfer was carried out …
David Ballón Vera, owner of the Santander de Canta mine, was kidnapped while driving his vehicle on the fifth block of Tomás Marsano Avenue, Surquillo. MRTA members wearing police uniforms and medical aprons, with two fake patrolmen and a stolen ambulance, intercepted his vehicle. They shot at the armored windows, …
Between the last hours of July 17 and the early morning of July 18, 1992, members of the Colina Detachment in coordination with members of the military base located at La Cantuta University broke into the university housing. In the presence of fifty witnesses, they kidnapped nine students and one …
Businessman Raul Hiraoka Torres was kidnapped by members of the MRTA on July 9, 1992 as he was leaving his home in San Isidro. He was held captive in three different properties in Lima (Santa Anita, Urbanización Aurora in Surquillo, and Calle Vesalio in San Borja) for more than a …
On April 22, 1992, members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) kidnapped businessman Pedro Antonio Miyasato. This kidnapping occurred in a context of intense subversive activity, just days after the April 5, 1992 coup d'état carried out by President Alberto Fujimori. The event occurred in the midst of a …
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 …
Hory Chlimper Halfin, main shareholder of the Farmaindustria and Droguerías Kahan laboratories, was kidnapped at 9:00 a.m. when he arrived at his office in Lince. Three MRTA cars participated in the operation. They grabbed him from behind, beat him over the head, tied him up and threw him in the …
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 4, 1991, a military patrol entered the community of Santa Barbara and kidnapped a group of community members. According to testimonies gathered by the CVR, the kidnapped community members were later dynamited in the Misteriosa mine. This fact represents one of the cases of human rights violations committed …
Numerous MRTA elements simultaneously attacked police posts and public premises in four cities in the department of San Martin: Saposoa, Tarapoto, Rioja and Moyobamba. During these coordinated attacks, MRTA members kidnapped nine policemen. These attacks were part of an MRTA offensive in the Amazon region of the country.
On January 24, 1991, a column of the PCP-SL hijacked a truck loaded with more than 300 boxes of vegetable oil in Villa El Salvador. Members of the subversive group distributed the contents of the truck among housewives shopping at a local market. This action was part of the agitation …
The congressman and president of the Cambio 90 parliamentary team, Gerardo Lopez Quiroz, was kidnapped at his home in Villa El Salvador by three MRTA members who falsely identified themselves as messengers. He was held at gunpoint with machine guns and forced by blows into a pickup truck. His whereabouts …
On September 11, 1990, Victor Macedonio de la Torre Romero, manager of Cementos Lima, was kidnapped. The Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) was identified as responsible for the act. The kidnapping was later confirmed on September 22. This event occurred in a context of intense political violence …
The Executive President of Cementos Lima S.A., Víctor De La Torre Romero, was kidnapped around noon on his way to his workplace in San Isidro. A car without license plates blocked the way to his truck and several armed members of the MRTA descended from another truck, brutally beat the …
Congressman Gerardo Lopez Quiroz, member of the political group Cambio 90, was kidnapped by the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). The perpetrators described the kidnapping as an 'invitation to talk' with the objective of making known the guidelines of the III Central Committee of the MRTA. This kidnapping took place …
After the ordinary congress of the Central Asháninka del Río Tambo from July 18 to 20, 1990, an armed column of the Shining Path PCP, made up of more than sixty people, including settlers and natives, kidnapped three indigenous leaders. Those kidnapped were Pablo Santoma Santos, president of CART (Central …
Between July 18 and 20, 1990, the ordinary congress of the Central Asháninka del Río Tambo (CART) was held in Mayapo. At the end of the congress, an armed column of the Shining Path, made up of more than sixty people, including settlers and natives, kidnapped the main indigenous leaders …
The ordinary congress of the Central Asháninka del Río Tambo (CART) was held from July 18 to 20, 1990. At the end of the congress, an armed column of the Shining Path PCP, made up of more than sixty people including settlers and natives, kidnapped three indigenous leaders: Pablo Santoma …
The academic vice-rector of UNCP, Jaime Cerrón Palomino, was kidnapped as he left his home on June 9 along with his driver Armando Tapia Gutiérrez. Their bodies were found on June 17 in the district of Sincos, approximately 20 km north of Huancayo. They were found with their limbs severed, …
MRTA broadcast a proclamation on Channel 5 television on April 18, 1990, in which it declared "total war on the democratic system" and called on the population to vote in the second round of elections. This broadcast was part of the MRTA's demands to free Héctor Delgado Parker, president of …
Congressman Gerardo Lopez, a member of Cambio 90, was kidnapped by the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) in 1990. The perpetrators described the act as an 'invitation to talk' and to make known the guidelines of the Third Central Committee of the MRTA. This kidnapping was part of the MRTA's …
On December 10, 1989, 250 members of the PCP-SL (Shining Path) surrounded a village not specified in the text. The attackers removed from their homes the 23 adult men who were there. This attack was part of the violent actions of the PCP-SL during the period of intensified political violence …
Masked and black-clad members of the MRTA assaulted the village of Kirichari during the celebration of the community's anniversary. They seized Alejandro Calderón Espinoza, pinkátzari (chief) and president of ANAP (federation of 52 Asháninka communities of the Pichis valley), and took him against his will to Puerto Bermúdez and Palcazu. …
Saturdino Calapuja Salazar, a member of the CGTP (General Confederation of Peruvian Workers), was kidnapped in December 1989 in Lima. After participating in a CGTP meeting, he was kidnapped and ill-treated. He was later found in an agonizing state in downtown Lima. This case is part of a series of …
Angel Escobar, leader of the Federation of Peasant Communities and vice-president of the Human Rights Commission of the department of Huancavelica, was kidnapped in the middle of the urban center of the city of Huancavelica in December 1989. The kidnapping occurred during the period of the 1989-1990 Shining Path offensive, …
Héctor Delgado Parker, president of the board of directors of Panamericana Televisión and former advisor to President Alan García Pérez, was kidnapped by the MRTA on October 4, 1989. After being held captive for more than a month and a half, his strangled body was found in Uchiza on November …
On November 11, 1989, four peasant leaders from the annex of San Blas, district of Chambará, in Bajo Cunas, were kidnapped by presumed Shining Pathists and killed with shots to the head when they arrived at Chorrillos. This happened two days after the PCP-SL took over the town of Quero …
Héctor Delgado Parker, businessman of Channel 5, was kidnapped by the MRTA on October 4, 1989 and held hostage until April 21, 1990. The drama of his kidnapping led to the reinforcement of media self-regulation in the coverage of terrorist acts. This case was one of the most mediatized kidnappings …
Héctor Delgado Parker, former advisor to President Alan García and owner of Producciones Panamericana, was kidnapped around 10:30 a.m. at the intersection of Torres Paz and Enrique Villar, Santa Beatriz. His vehicle was intercepted by a yellow Datsun and a cherry pickup truck. The kidnappers fired machine guns, smashed the …
On October 4, 1989, Hector Delgado Parker, president of TV Channel 5, was kidnapped in Lima. This kidnapping was part of the escalation of violent actions by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the capital during the period known as "strategic balance". The kidnapping of a high-profile media figure like Delgado Parker …
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.
The MRTA kidnapped the president of the San Martin County, Demetrio Tafur Ruiz, requesting the intervention of the Church to solve this problem. Tafur was released on July 28, through the mediation of the Church. This case shows the mediating role that the Church played in some conflicts with subversive …
MRTA members stopped the vehicle of the President of the Departmental Development Corporation of San Martin, Demetrio Tafur, 65 kilometers from Tarapoto and forced him to get out and drive it to an unknown location. MRTA made demands related to San Martin: approval of budgets for road improvement, payment to …
The lawyer Antenógenes Haro Cruz filed a formal complaint before the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Huaraz for the kidnapping and attempted murder of his brother Pedro Eduardo Haro Cruz and César Augusto Mautino Camones. The complaint details the facts that occurred on April 29 when both young men were intercepted …
Between March and April 1989, the Escorpio group commanded by Captain EP Martin Rivas kidnapped and murdered the drug trafficker known as Carusso. This was part of the group's operations that included kidnappings and executions in exchange for money, carried out under the cover of the counter-subversive war and with …
The Escorpio group, commanded by Captain EP Martin Rivas, carried out kidnappings of drug traffickers in Alto Huallaga during 1989. These kidnappings were part of a series of criminal activities that included collecting quotas related to drug traffickers and merchants, carried out under the cover of military intelligence operations.
In January 1989, the PCP-SL kidnapped Víctor Lozano, communal authority of Chicche and delegate of his community to the SAIS-Cahuide, together with Manuel Soto, anthropologist and promoter of the NGO CICEP that maintained projects in the area. Both were tortured by the subversives. Later, they were shot to death in …
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