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.
Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso, lieutenant colonel of the Peruvian Army Artillery and commander of the 501st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group, revolted with his troops and demanded the resignation of President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, whose government and authority as supreme head of the Armed Forces he considered illegitimate. This military uprising occurred …
At the end of December 1989, villagers from communities in Tulumayo gathered in Talhuis, tired of Shining Path abuses, harassed by hunger and death threats. This meeting was motivated by the death of Runatullo villagers in October of that year, who had been murdered for opposing the Shining Path party. …
In February 1983, the Sacsamarca uprising against the PCP-SL took place. The villagers, fed up with the abuses of the Shining Path commanders, decided to rebel against them. In an act of resistance, the villagers got the Shining Path militants drunk and later stabbed and stoned them to death. This …
The uprising of Major Teodomiro Gutiérrez Cuevas, who adopted the name of Rumi Maqui, was the most famous peasant mobilization of the early 20th century in the southern Andes. He took up arms in the province of Azángaro in 1915, in the context of a series of revolts that took …
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