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.
Under the leadership of the FDCP, several communities take land from CAT Quisuni in July 1990. Surprisingly, the Shining Path column shows up and assassinates six workers of that entity, reiterating their slogan that the only way to get the land is with weapons in hand. In the following days, …
The José Carlos Mariátegui Human Settlement arose as a result of a land seizure carried out on October 14, 1984, by a group of 200 families from the shantytowns of Barrios Altos and Callao. The families, faced with rising rents, organized themselves and decided to have their own land in …
The Antapampa Cooperative was invaded in January 1977 by community farmers who had been left out of the agrarian reform. This event was part of the process of land seizures that occurred after the agrarian reform benefited only 23% of the peasants in the Cuzco region, leaving the remaining 77%, …
In February 1976, around 4,700 families occupied land on the left bank of the Rimac River, near the Huascar Bridge. This massive land invasion was part of the process of human settlement formation in San Juan de Lurigancho during the 1970s. In its initial stage, up to 13 residential groups …
In 1974, the Andahuaylas Provincial Federation of Peasants (FEPCA), led by Julio César Mezzich, Lino Quintanilla and Félix Loayza, organized the largest peasant mobilization of the decade with the objective of totally eliminating the hacienda system and adjudicating land to peasant families. Of the 118 haciendas in Andahuaylas and Chincheros, …
The land seizure in Chincheros and Andahuaylas in 1974 was a significant event that indirectly affected the area known as 'Oreja de perro' in the province of La Mar. The most important precedent for this event was the death of 20 peasants in Ongoy in the 1960s. The land seizure …
The Confederación Campesina del Perú (CCP) led an important peasant mobilization in the department of Piura between 1973 and 1975, headed by Andrés Luna Vargas. This mobilization was one of the two most important of the 1973-1975 period, aimed at the adjudication of land to peasant communities. The strategy used …
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