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 Lima from a displaced declarant from Guacamayo, Padre Abad, Ucayali. The testimony is part of the documentation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the effects of the internal armed conflict in Peru. The declarant relates his experience as a displaced person and the emotional and psychological …
The affiant is a displaced person from Guacamayo, Padre Abad, Ucayali. The testimony was collected in Lima in November 2002. The case is part of the testimonies on forced displacement of population during the internal armed conflict in the region of Ucayali. The testimony is registered in the CVR Report …
Testimony 487516 recorded in Aguaytia, Padre Abad, Ucayali in September 2002, documents the murder of a brother of the affiant in La Merced, Padre Abad, Ucayali. The case is part of the testimonies compiled by the CVR on acts of violence in the Ucayali region. The declarant narrated the facts …
The witness recounts the murder of her brother in La Merced, Padre Abad, Ucayali. The testimony was collected in Aguaytia in September 2002. This case is part of the testimonies on political violence in the Ucayali region. The testimony is found in the context of the section of the report …
In 1998, the Peruvian Navy withdrew support from the Self-Defense Committees (CAD's) in the Ucayali region. This decision was due to the fact that the CAD's became directly dependent on the Prefecture, thus changing the command and supervision structure of these organizations. The CAD's had been formed and supported by …
On April 2, 1995, members of the Navy entered the town of San Alejandro as part of Operation Shark IV. Between 5:30 and 6 in the morning they arrived at the Pomatanta family's home looking for 17-year-old Indalecio. After interrogating and brutally beating him and asking him for weapons, they …
On April 2, 1995, the family was run over by the Navy's military base. They arrived at six o'clock in the morning in a white van. The commander and the civil affairs lieutenant grabbed the son and beat him in the belly, punched and kicked him. They took the family …
A military patrol is ambushed by members of the PCP-SL on a road leading to Pucallpa. Eight military personnel and six civilians are killed in the attack.
On February 12, 1993, in the village of Previsto, the body of a girl was found decomposing, with her clothes torn to shreds and signs of having been raped and tortured. The girl had been murdered by members of the PCP-SL as punishment for having refused to participate with the …
Between 1990 and 1993, the MRTA experienced a progressive disarticulation in Ucayali due to multiple factors. The disconnection of the Army of the Territory (ET) from the Eastern Front (FO) with the Regional Directorate (DR) and the scarce logistical support from the city caused the abandonment of the military contingents. …
In 1993, the Human Rights Office of the Vicariate of Pucallpa succeeded in forming a support network by appointing pastoral agents in the department of Ucayali. These agents had the mission of disseminating the support of the Catholic Church to the victims of political violence in the region. In addition, …
In 1993, the Caimito Self-Defense Committee (CAD) reached an agreement with the drug traffickers to provide them with security in the face of increased crime and chaos on Lake Imiria. The Caimito ADC had been formed in 1991 as a sub-base of the Puerto Alegre ADC, with the objective of …
Beginning in 1993, the drug cartels significantly decreased their influence in the Tamaya River and Imiria Lake areas. This decline was the result of increased repressive actions by the Navy and the anti-drug policy promoted by the Peruvian government. By this time, the military and political presence of the PCP-SL …
In 1992, the Peruvian Navy successfully formed a Self-Defense Committee (CAD) in the hamlet of Huipoca, located in Padre Abad. This was one of the places where the Navy implemented its new counter-subversive strategy based on winning over the PCP-SL's social base through civic actions. It was the first time …
In 1992, the Peruvian Navy assumed command of the Political-Military Command of Ucayali, marking an important change in the counter-subversive strategy in the region. This change coincided with a new strategy based on winning over the PCP-SL's social base through civic actions that demonstrated to the civilian population that the …
On April 26, 1991, in Aguaytía, province of Padre Abad, department of Ucayali, three people were arrested and subsequently disappeared: the brother, cousin and partner of the plaintiff. The facts were perpetrated by members of the Peruvian Navy. The affiant gave her testimony narrating these events that directly affected her …
The Puerto Alegre Self-Defense Committee (CAD) was formed on March 21, 1991, with logistical and technical advice from the Peruvian Navy. This CAD played a fundamental role in the counter-subversive struggle and in the defeat of PCP-SL in Lake Imiria and in some areas of the Tamaya River, due to …
In 1991, after the formation of the Puerto Alegre ADC, Caimito became a sub-base of the Self-Defense Committee with the specific objective of monitoring and combating the presence of PCP-SL in Lake Imiria. Like other CAD's, Caimito's became a sort of security and order guarantor force, although its actions were …
In 1991, the armed forces, particularly the Peruvian Navy, implemented a significant change in their counter-subversive strategy in Ucayali. This new strategy was based on winning over the social base of the PCP-SL through civic actions that demonstrated to the civilian population that the armed forces respected the lives of …
In 1991, the Peruvian Navy took over full command of the Political-Military Command of Ucayali, which had been initially established on June 1, 1989 when the department was declared in a state of emergency. This change implied a change in the counter-subversive strategy, ceasing to carry out bloody operations in …
In 1991, due to the gradual change in the Navy's counter-subversive strategy, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso began to retreat to some areas along the Ucayali River and lost control of the villages along the Federico Basadre Highway (CFB). This change of strategy implied that the Navy stopped carrying out bloody operations …
In 1991, the native communities of the area, particularly the Shipibo-Conibo of Lake Imiria, decided to join the Self-Defense Committee (CAD) of the hamlet of Puerto Alegre as a sub-base to combat subversion. This decision was made after PCP-Sendero Luminoso repeatedly tried to impose its laws and organize committees in …
The Regional Directorate (DR) of the Eastern Front of the MRTA continued its operations in Ucayali during 1991, although with limited political and military relevance after the events of February 9, 1989, which disarticulated the peasant, popular and political movements in the region. The organization's work remained active until 1991, …
In 1991, with the change in the Peruvian Navy's counter-subversive strategy, a Self-Defense Committee (CAD) was formed in Masisea with advice from the Navy. This CAD was part of a broader strategy to win over the social base of PCP-SL in the Ucayali region and its tributaries. The Masisea ADC …
Between 1990 and 1993, the Territorial Army (TE) of the Eastern Front (FO) of the MRTA experienced a progressive disconnection with the Regional Directorate (DR) and faced scarce logistical support from the city. This situation caused the gradual abandonment of military contingents. Although between 1988 and 1990 the FO ET …
The Peruvian Navy carried out an ambush against MRTA militants in the Boca del Pachitea area. This military action resulted in the death of several young men who were part of the Territorial Army of the Eastern Front of MRTA. The event occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations carried …
The MRTA made a second incursion into the Cashibo community of Mariscal Caceres shortly before the 1990 elections. This was the second time the subversive group visited the community, the first being in June 1989. During this incursion, the MRTA again attempted to organize the native population and persuade them …
During the 1990 elections, Shining Path supporters stationed themselves on an esplanade near Puerto Alegre to prevent, under threat of death, the inhabitants of Tamaya and Imiria from going to Masisea to vote. This action was part of the PCP-SL's territorial control strategy in the area, which had established Open …
On November 4, 1989, the Main Force (FP) of the Alto Huallaga of PCP-SL raided Puerto Alegre, one day after its incursion in Masisea. During this action, PCP-SL imposed its organization and established Open Popular Committees and Organized Committees in all the hamlets along the Tamaya River and Imiria Lake. …
On November 3, 1989, the PCP-SL carried out an incursion into the town of Iparia with the objective of organizing the population and appointing authorities under their control. During the action, they gathered the villagers, but a fortuitous event confused the subversives and allowed the escape of the prisoners and …
On November 3, 1989, the Main Force (FP) of the PCP-SL from the Alto Huallaga raided Masisea. This incursion was part of a series of actions in which PCP-SL established Open Popular Committees and Organized Committees in the hamlets of the Tamaya River and Imiria Lake. One day later, on …
In November 1989, the PCP-SL arrived in the native Shipibo-Conibo community of Junin Pablo, coming from the hamlet of Panuco. The Shining Path's objective was to organize the population and impose their laws, asking them how their authorities behaved and explaining the norms they wanted to implement: no polygamy, no …
PCP-SL raided the hamlet of Caimito in November 1989 and forced the population to organize into committees. Subsequently, in 1991, after the formation of the Puerto Alegre Self-Defense Committee (CAD), Caimito became a sub-base with the objective of monitoring and combating the presence of PCP-SL in Lake Imiria. The Caimito …
At the end of 1989, the PCP-SL appeared in the Tamaya River and Imiria Lake. The Main Force of the Upper Huallaga made incursions into all the hamlets, imposing its organization and establishing Open Popular Committees and Organized Committees. The PCP-SL entered Puerto Alegre on November 4, 1989, one day …
Commander Mario, whose real name was Osler Panduro, was the first General Commander of the Eastern Front (FO) of the MRTA in Ucayali, a position he held between 1988 and 1989. In September 1989, he died of peritonitis. His death generated a major organizational crisis in the Eastern Front that …
On June 1, 1989, the Peruvian State declared Ucayali an emergency zone and installed a Political-Military Command led by the Navy. This measure was taken in response to the problems generated by the hyperinflation of 1989, which prevented the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA from paying peasants for their production, …
On June 1, 1989, the Peruvian State declared Ucayali an emergency zone, installing a Political-Military Command led by the Navy. This measure was taken in response to the problems generated by the hyperinflation of 1989, which prevented the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA from paying peasants, causing regional strikes organized …
The PCP-SL Main Force of the Alto Huallaga Regional Committee made its first incursion into the Cashibo native community of Mariscal Caceres in June 1989. The Shining Path members gathered the villagers in the school and demanded that the community organize and follow their laws. The Cashibo refused to form …
Once settled and with control of the drug business in Padre Abad, PCP-SL continued its political and military expansion into the province of Coronel Portillo, entering the Ucayali River, mainly the districts of Masisea and Iparia, in mid-1989. PCP-SL carried out one of its first incursions into the town of …
On February 9, 1989, one of the largest peasant and native mobilizations was held in Pucallpa to demand improvements in agriculture from the government. This march was organized by the Confederation of Peruvian Peasants (CCP) to celebrate an agreement after a three-week strike by peasants grouped in the FECADU and …
On February 9, 1989, 8 peasants were massacred during a mobilization in Pucallpa. This event was denounced by the Catholic Church through the Human Rights Office of the Vicariate of Pucallpa. The massacre took place in the context of generalized violence in the department of Ucayali, where both subversive groups …
In Pucallpa, Ucayali, peasants lifted a 16-day strike and celebrated with a demonstration the agreements reached with the government. The prefect denied permission for the demonstration, which provoked a confrontation. The police intervened in the mobilization carried out by the Federation of Peasants of Ucayali when they tried to deactivate …
The Confederation of Peruvian Peasants (CCP) organized a large march of peasants and natives in the city of Pucallpa on February 9, 1989. This mobilization was held to celebrate an agreement reached after a three-week strike by the peasants grouped in the Federation of Peasants of the Department of Ucayali …
Faced with the presence of PCP-SL and drug trafficking in the province of Padre Abad, in 1989 the Army created a military base in Aguaytia, where the "Counter-Subversive Battalion 28" was established from the "Los Laureles" base in Tingo Maria. This action was framed in the context of the declaration …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Peruvian Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. They used helicopter gunships to bomb different villages, considering them, a priori, as 'red zones'. Pucallpa's aguajales became the walking cemeteries of dozens …
In mid-1989, PCP-SL made incursions into the Cashibo-Cacataibo community of Mariscal Cáceres. On that occasion they gathered the population in the school building and spoke to them about the class struggle, the "New State" they wanted to establish and asked them to organize themselves into a committee. The response of …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Peruvian Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. They used helicopter gunships to bomb different villages, considering them, a priori, as 'red zones'. Pucallpa's aguajales became the walking cemeteries of dozens …
With the explosion of hyperinflation in 1989, the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA were unable to pay for the peasants' products. This economic crisis led the Confederation of Peruvian Peasants (CCP) to promote regional peasant strikes throughout the country. In Ucayali, the peasants grouped in the Federation of Peasants of …
Between 1989 and 1990, the Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. The presence of PCP-SL in the Ucayali River occurred between the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990. PCP-SL appeared in the Tamaya …
PCP-SL made one of its first incursions into the town of Iparia in mid-1989, as part of its expansion into the province of Coronel Portillo after consolidating in Padre Abad. The Main Force of the Upper Huallaga Regional Committee faced limitations in operating in this area due to the long …
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