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.
Shining Path attacked Sonomoro in the afternoon. A female terrorist captured a family and doused them with gasoline, then set fire to the car and people. Esmeralda Carhuamaca Romero, 10 years old, ran out with fire on her back and managed to put it out by throwing herself on the …
Wilmer, a 3-year-old boy, witnessed the murder of his parents by the Shining Path. They threw a machete at his mother's belly and there was a lot of blood, and they put a bullet in his father's head. The boy wanted them to get up but they wouldn't talk to …
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