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.
Testimony collected in Ayacucho in November 2002, identified with code 201920. The declarant was a direct witness of murders that occurred in the community of Huayau, located in the district of Tambo, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. This testimony is part of the documentation compiled by the CVR …
A woman testified before the CVR about murders that occurred in the community of Chaca, located in the province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in October 2002 as part of the process of documenting political violence in Peru. The affiant was a direct witness to the …
The declarant gave her testimony in Lima in October 2002 before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She witnessed the murders that took place in Chaca, province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho. In her account she describes the traumatic impact of witnessing these violent events, mentioning health problems resulting from the …
The affiant witnessed murders in the town of Rayana (also known as Rayama), located in San Miguel, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The testimonies refer to these violent events in the context of the internal armed conflict. The witness describes the traumatic impact of witnessing these murders, subsequently …
The affiant witnessed murders in the town of Rayana, San Miguel, La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony describes experiences of extreme violence and its profound psychological effects on the victims. The declarant relates how after witnessing these violent events, she experienced a deep trauma expressed in the phrase "not even the …
A woman testified before the CVR about the murders that occurred in the village of Rayama, located in San Miguel, province of La Mar, Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in October 2002 as part of the documentation of human rights violations during the internal armed conflict. The affiant was a …
Testimony collected in Lima during September 2002 as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigations. The affiant witnessed the massacre that took place in Puquio, Lucanas province, Ayacucho department. This testimony is part of the documentation on the psychological and emotional impacts of political violence in Peru, specifically related …
In-depth interview conducted in the town of Cedruyoj, district of Monobamba, as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's investigation. The testimony corresponds to a woman inhabitant of Huertas who witnessed an armed confrontation in the area. The interview is part of the process of collecting testimonies about the internal …
In the early morning of July 18, 1991, Professor Francisco Solier García (46 years old), his wife Celestina Huallanca Hinostroza (40 years old), his son Waldyn Solier Huallanca (14 years old) and his nephew Carlos José Rodríguez Cordero (18 years old) were murdered. All of them were shot and the …
In the early morning of July 18, 1991, an annihilation squad entered the Solier-Huallanca home and murdered Celestina Huallanca (teacher and witness to the murder of Luis Antonio Morales Noriega), her husband Francisco Solier Garcia, her son Waldy Solier Huallanca (14 years old) and her nephew Carlos Jose Rodriguez Cordero …
Martha Crisóstomo García, a witness to the Cayara events who worked at the Health Post, was murdered in Huamanga. She had been threatened with death for commenting on the Cayara events when President Alan Garcia arrived. She had also recognized the body of her aunt Jovita García Suárez when she …
Martha Crisóstomo García was murdered in Ayacucho on August 8, 1989. She was a key witness in the Cayara massacre, having recognized the body of a Cayara villager before prosecutor Carlos Escobar Pineda. Her testimony had been collected by the Senate investigative commission. The murder occurred in the context of …
During the night of June 21, 1989, 21 days after the disappearance of Haro Cruz and Mautino Camones, three key witnesses to the events disappeared: siblings Ramón, Catalina and Fernando Robles Figueroa. According to the testimony of Juana Mercedes Guerrero León, several hooded men armed with shotguns arrived and took …
Between 09:30 and 10:00 hours, Pedro Eduardo Haro Cruz and César Augusto Mautino Camones were intercepted while they were riding their bicycles along the Shansha Curve, 7 kilometers from Huaraz. Two unknown persons forced them to get into a closed orange van with license plate RE-5508, a CORDE Ancash vehicle …
Justiniano Tinco García, Fernandina Palomino Quispe and Antonio Felix García Tipe were killed while traveling in a truck near Cayara. They were intercepted by hooded persons who selected these three people from a group of 15 who were traveling and subsequently killed them. They were witnesses to the events that …
Hooded persons (presumably military) entered the homes of residents of Cayara and forcibly detained them. Gregorio Ipurre Ramos, Guzmán Palomino Bautista, Humberto Ipurre, Benigna Palomino de Ipurre and Catalina Ramos Palomino disappeared. According to witnesses, these people had denounced to President Alan Garcia Perez the excesses perpetrated in Cceschua, which …
On September 13, 1985, the bodies of five people were found in the cemetery of Accomarca, whose bodies, still bleeding, showed traces of having been very recently shot, shortly before the arrival of an investigative commission of the Congress of the Republic, which included Congressman Fernando Olivera of the Popular …
On September 8, 1985, military personnel killed Brigida Perez Chavez and her son Alejandro Baldeon Perez, who were witnesses to the massacre that took place in Accomarca on August 14. This murder was part of a pattern of eliminating surviving witnesses of the massacre.
On August 14, 1985, the same day of the Accomarca massacre, the guide Filomeno Chuchón Ticse, who was known as "comrade Genaro", was murdered. He was executed for having witnessed the massacre perpetrated by the military patrol.
In mid-September 1984, a witness in the Uchuraccay case was detained by a group of Marines and taken to the Tambo military barracks. There she was tortured and raped, despite having the guarantees of the Peruvian Episcopate and the Ministry of the Interior due to her status as a witness …
Two days after the massacre, in retaliation for the denunciations, police officers executed teacher Victoria Cueto Janampa in her home, shooting her in the head. They also kidnapped and executed Vicente Quispe Flores, abandoning his body on the Huaytará bridge. They also murdered Javier Gutiérrez Gamboa, a young man who …
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