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.
Martha Huatay Ruiz, head of Socorro Popular and member of the Metropolitan Lima Committee of the PCP-SL, was captured. Her capture is part of the disarticulation of the Shining Path structure in Lima after the capture of Abimael Guzman.
Martha Huatay was a lawyer who assumed the leadership of Socorro Popular (SoPo), an organization of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso with a very complex structure that, after its militarization in 1986, came to displace the Metropolitan Committee in importance. Socorro Popular acted almost always through its 'gray' or 'front' organizations, such …
Carlos Ríos Fernández, head of the section of Workers, Neighborhoods and Workers (OBT) and member of the leadership cell of Socorro Popular of the PCP-SL, was arrested by the Peruvian Navy. Ríos Fernández was the political commander of the entire OBT and his capture took place in the Bocanegra human …
The Tarata attack occurred on July 16, 1992 in Lima. According to the CVR report, this attack was part of a wave of Shining Path violence that culminated after the police intervention in the Canto Grande prison between June 6 and 9, 1992, which resulted in the assassination of prominent …
The police intervention in the Canto Grande prison took place between June 6 and 9, 1992, culminating in the assassination of prominent cadres of Socorro Popular of the PCP-SL. This action was one of the triggers of the wave of Shining Path violence that culminated in the attack on Tarata …
On May 9, 1992, a police intervention called "Mudanza Uno" took place in the Shining Path wards of the Canto Grande prison with the objective of transferring more than 100 women to the Chorrillos prison. The operation resulted in the murder of 35 inmates accused of terrorism. Among the victims …
Operation of the Dircote (Directorate against Terrorism) that intercepted one of the main 'health depots' of the PCP-SL. In this operation, various members of the PCP-SL's health management cell were captured, many of them students from San Marcos. These captures were made possible by the previous arrest of Tito Valle …
On June 22, 1991, Professor Victor Zavala Cataño, who had links with the University of La Cantuta since the beginning of the internal war, was arrested by the GEIN (Special Intelligence Group). Zavala Cataño was a member of the leadership cell of Socorro Popular del Perú, an organization of the …
In June 1991, three important leaders of Socorro Popular (SoPo), an organization of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, were captured. Those arrested were Tito Valle Travesaño, Víctor Zavala Cataño and a leader whose name is not specified in this excerpt. Socorro Popular was a very complex structure that, after its militarization in …
During a search ordered by the Primer Juzgado de Paz Letrado de San Juan de Lurigancho, police officers found a large amount of subversive literature in the house where Roger Tito Valle Travesaño and Yovanka Elizabeth Pardavé Trujillo lived. The analysis of the seized documents revealed that they belonged to …
In 1987, the Pilot Plan of the Revolutionary Movement for the Defense of the People (MRDP), an organization created by the PCP-SL, began to take shape. This plan had as its objective the construction of revolutionary support bases in the city of Lima, as well as the organization of armed …
Socorro Popular (called SoPo in PCP-SL documents) was an organization of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path that had a very complex structure. After its militarization in 1986, it came to displace the Metropolitan Committee in importance, managing to expand without ceasing to fulfill its initial functions in …
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