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.
Enrique Castilla, textile leader and member of the Central Committee of the Unified Mariateguista Party (PUM), was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso on October 31, 1989. This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy of selective annihilation of political and union leaders who opposed their revolutionary project. The crime …
On October 31, 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated Enrique Castilla Linares, secretary general of the La Union de Tejidos La Union and a prominent class-conscious union leader of 48 years of age. He was killed with three bullets during the armed strike of November 3. Castilla had been permanently threatened with …
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