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.
On September 20, 1993, the Peruvian government denounced to the UN the massacre committed by the PCP-SL in the Tsiriari valley. This denunciation was made two days after the news of the massacre, which occurred on August 18, 1993, was disseminated by several media outlets. The Congress of the Republic …
On Friday, August 20, 1993, two days after the massacre perpetrated by Shining Path columns in the Tsiriari valley, the villagers who had survived by hiding in the bush finished burying the dead. Four villagers who arrived from Mazamari helped them in this task. On Thursday, August 19, the villagers …
On Thursday, August 19, 1993, one day after the massacre perpetrated by Shining Path columns in eight communities of the Tsiriari valley, the villagers who had managed to hide in the bush came down to warn the Army from the Mazamari base about the events that had occurred. The massacre …
On August 18, 1993, around 4:00 p.m., a group of hikers arrived in the Nomatsiguenga Tahuantinsuyo community as part of a coordinated incursion of three hiker columns into eight communities in the Tsiriari valley. The murders were committed with bladed weapons: arrows, machetes and others were hanged with pitas. Twenty-one …
On August 18, 1993, three groups of alleged hikers, between one hundred and three hundred men, women and children, settlers and natives, entered seven communities in the Tsiriari valley. The communities attacked were Monterrico, San Isidro, Sol de Oro, Union Cubaro, San Francisco de Cubaro and Santa Isabel (colonists) and …
On August 18, 1993, three Shining Path columns, each composed of approximately 70 settlers and natives, entered eight communities in the Tsiriari valley (six colonists and two Asháninka). The massacre began around 4:00 p.m. in the Nomatsiguenga Tahuantinsuyo community, where twenty-one people were killed, including children, men and women. The …
Between 150 and 300 people, accompanied by Asháninka natives, entered eight communities in the Tsiriari Valley, killing 72 villagers with bladed weapons, including 16 minors. They left 10 wounded, 8 of them minors. Rape and looting were committed. Initially attributed to Sendero Luminoso, it was later denounced the participation of …
After the confrontation of September 25, 1990 in the area known as 'La Roca' between ronderos and PCP-SL, many displaced villagers from the Tsiriari valley interpreted this event as a defeat for the Shining Path. This perception of victory over the subversive group generated conditions that the villagers considered safer …
On September 25, 1990, an armed confrontation took place between peasant ronderos and PCP-SL forces in the area known as the 'Rock', located in the Tsiriari valley. This confrontation was interpreted by the displaced inhabitants as a significant defeat for the PCP-SL in the region. As a consequence of this …
In 1990, in the Tsiriari valley, Mazamari district, some colonist communities had some sympathy for the MRTA, as they offered them protection from PCP-SL. In the colonist community Dos de Mayo, MC, who had previously sympathized with PCP-SL, decided to support MRTA after returning from Huancayo in 1990. Upon returning …
In 1990, in the Tsiriari valley, Mazamari district, some colonist communities developed some sympathy for the MRTA, since this group offered them protection from the PCP-SL. In the colonist community of Dos de Mayo, a villager named MC, who had previously sympathized with PCP-SL, decided to support the MRTA after …
In 1990, the PCP-SL (Shining Path) carried out a first massacre in the settler community of Monterrico, located in the Tsiriari valley, Mazamari district, Satipo province. This attack was part of a series of selective assassinations that the PCP-SL committed that year in several colonist communities in the area, including …
On August 19, 1983, the Peruvian Army perpetrated a massacre in Tsiriari, department of Junin. Eighty fatalities were recorded, of which 79 were unidentified and one was identified as a woman. The remains found showed evidence of sexual violence prior to the murder. One of the victims showed clear signs …
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