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 July 7, 1998, Army soldiers vacated the university campus of the National University of Central Peru (UNCP) in Huancayo. This military intervention took place in the context of years of political violence at the university, where both the PCP-SL and the MRTA had carried out proselytizing and armed propaganda …
Fifteen UNCP students were captured accused of belonging to subversive groups. These arrests occurred after several students captured 15 days earlier took advantage of the law of repentance and gave names of university students, professors or workers, possibly innocently implicating them.
Milagro Flor Túpac Gonzáles, a Social Work student, was taken from her home in the early morning of February 12, 1993 by a group of hooded men. Her whereabouts were never known, despite her father's efforts to locate her. Her father went to all police and military offices, filed complaints …
On October 21, 1992, a massacre occurred in Sincos, Jauja district, in which 8 people were killed. According to the report, the victims could have been students from the National University of Central Peru (UNCP). This event took place in the context of 1992, when violence reached its highest peak …
Dante Edgar Granados Gómez, a mining engineering student, was executed. His father picked up his body on October 7 and found a sign on his chest that read 'Así mueren los soplones' (This is how snitches die) with a drawing of the hammer and sickle. His body had traces of …
Justiniano Fredy Vicente Rivera disappeared on September 7, 1992. Twenty days after his disappearance, his body was found floating in the irrigation canal near the 'Cahuide' tap, near the university town. His body had a severed jugular vein and his knees were badly bruised.
In 1992, a military base was established in the UNCP university cafeteria, at the entrance to the campus. The military intervention was carried out peacefully, and the troops proceeded to clean and paint the walls. The base remained for many years until it was removed when Javier Valle Riestra became …
In November 1991, students in open defiance burned two vans and a large amount of food that the government had sent to the University. This action occurred despite tighter control of the universities with more constant military interventions.
President Alberto Fujimori visited the UNCP in the company of the Ministers of Defense, Transportation, the Political and Military Chief of the Mantaro Front and the Rector. In the Central Library, he declared that it was necessary to put order in the universities and that terrorist groups should not dominate …
In June 1990, the Army and the police entered the UNCP and arrested more than a hundred students suspected of being subversives. In the following months they carried out similar operations until 1991 when the Army took control of the university. This process took place in the context of the …
Professor Roberto Aguirre Palomino was assassinated. The MRTA claimed responsibility for this assassination as a response to the death of Professor Luis Aguilar. On October 19, the MRTA posted on the walls of the university a 'black list' with 44 names of professors and students identified as Shining Path members, …
Angel Luis Huaynate, a student of Pedagogy, was found dead with signs of torture: burns on one cheek, hands tied, eyes covered with green bandage, gunshot wound in the heart and two more wounds in the head. Edson Espinoza Tueros, a 5th year student of Pedagogy, died with him. The …
Between September and October 1990 several students disappeared, among them Alcides Ccopa Taipe and Francisco Fernandez Galvez, well-known anthropology student leaders. Both had been present at the presentation of Martina Portocarrero in August or September, an event that was apparently used by intelligence to identify leaders. Two months after that …
On June 19, 1990, the lifeless bodies of Jaime Cerrón Palomino, Vice Rector of the National University of Central Peru, and his driver Armando Tapia were found in a place known as Tierra Blanca in the city of Huancayo. Both had been arrested on June 8, 1990. The bodies showed …
The academic vice-rector of UNCP, Jaime Cerrón Palomino, was kidnapped as he left his home on June 9 along with his driver Armando Tapia Gutiérrez. Their bodies were found on June 17 in the district of Sincos, approximately 20 km north of Huancayo. They were found with their limbs severed, …
Jaime Cerrón Palomino, Vice Rector of the National University of Central Peru, was arrested along with his driver Armando Tapia on June 8, 1990. Eleven days later, on June 19, their lifeless bodies were found in a place known as Tierra Blanca in the city of Huancayo. Both bodies showed …
Ever Lijarza Carrillo, a pedagogy student, disappeared on June 4, 1990. His mother searched for his body in various places, including the banks of the Mantaro River where she saw how the Army threw black bags with the bodies of tortured young men, with wires around their necks and badly …
In June 1990, the Army and the police entered the National University of Central Peru (UNCP) and arrested more than a hundred students suspected of being subversives. This intervention took place in the context of the struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA at the university, which had reached bloody …
Víctor Raúl Lavado Olivera, a professor at the School of Economics, who lived in the city of Jauja, was arrested along with his brother at his home by a group of hooded soldiers. His whereabouts were never heard of again. In his syllabus of Historical Materialism he included fundamental documents …
In April 1990 new university authorities were elected with strong influence from the PCP-SL. The student movement was strongly influenced by this group and the professors showed opportunism. The PCP-SL decided that Vizcardo would be rector and Cerrón vice academic rector, considering them more manipulable. This was the moment of …
On July 18, 1989, Professor Luis Aguilar Romaní was mortally wounded by alleged Shining Path supporters in the teachers' lounge of the Faculty of Pedagogy of the National University of Central Peru (UNCP). This attack occurred in the context of a bloody struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA at …
Luis Aguilar Romaní, a professor at the Pedagogy Faculty, who had explicit sympathies with the MRTA, was attacked by three elements who found him in the office of Dean Jaime Cerrón Palomino. They shot him several times, leaving him agonizing, and he died days later. The University Council treated the …
On May 11, 1989, the Army and the National Police intervened twice at the National University of Central Peru in search of terrorist elements. The intervention took place due to the distribution of flyers announcing an armed strike on the 10th, 11th and 12th in the department of Junin. In …
On May 11, 1989, the Army and the National Police intervened twice at the National University of Central Peru (UNCP) in search of terrorist elements. The intervention took place due to the distribution of flyers announcing an armed strike on the 10th, 11th and 12th in the department of Junin. …
On April 28, 1989, PCP-SL militants assassinated three students of APRA affiliation on the campus of the National University of Central Peru (UNCP). This event took place in the context of a bloody struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA for control of the university, which became visible in 1989. …
Students Héctor Pérez Morales (Zootechnics), Alcides Velásquez Castellares (Zootechnics) and Juan Vitor Rivera (Economics), militants of the PAP, were captured inside the university in the afternoon of April 27. The following day they were found dead with marks of torture. Over their corpses they placed the sign 'This is how …
Corporal of the National Police Néstor Landeo Lozano was murdered in the interior of the University City in the afternoon. He was found with two shots in the head and then his throat was savagely slit. This was the first member of the forces of law and order to be …
On March 12, 1989, militants of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) assassinated a police officer in the university campus of the UNCP. This event occurred in the context of the struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA at the university, which reached bloody proportions in 1989. …
The first incursion of combined forces (Army and Police) into the UNCP took place. This intervention marked the beginning of a series of military-police operations at the university with the objective of dismantling the subversive activity.
At the end of 1989, unidentified "paramilitaries" began their actions in Junín, disappearing and extrajudicially executing a large number of university, high school and secondary school students, presumably linked to subversive groups. These actions took place in the context of an intense struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA at …
Melvi Zacarías Espinoza, Vice President of the Student Federation and militant of Pueblo en Marcha (a legal MRTA organization), was arrested along with other students in January 1987. This arrest marked the beginning of the Pueblo en Marcha debacle in the UNCP, while the PCP-SL began to express itself openly.
The university campus dawned with flags of the PCP-SL when student elections were to be held. This action was part of the strategy of propaganda and territorial control that the PCP-SL exercised in the university.
A red flag was hoisted on top of the UNCP library, where it remained for several days. This symbolic act evidenced the growing presence and audacity of the PCP-SL in the university.
During the student elections, the FER 'Puka Llacta' boycotted the event and confronted the FURE in a pitched battle in which firearms were used, resulting in several injured students. This confrontation was evidence of the political violence that was taking place inside the university.
While the students were holding a massive march to protest the increase in fares, the police raided the university and killed the student Isaías Bravo Flores, from the Faculty of Agronomy. This occurred in the context of growing tension between law enforcement and the student movement.
Four men and a woman hikers took over the university canteen, distributed leaflets on 'guerrilla warfare' and solicited economic support. Hours later, members of the Republican Guard and the Peruvian Investigative Police entered the university campus in response to this action.
On January 20, 1983, four armed militants of the PCP-SL burst into the dining room of the National University of Central Peru. After a brief speech, they distributed a document referring to the development of the guerrilla war throughout the country. During the action, they asked for economic collaboration from …
Feliciano', political commander of the Regional Committee of the Center between 1981 and 1985, wrote a letter to Abimael Guzman informing that a detachment had been formed with several students from the University of the Center of Huancayo. This letter is evidence of the early organization of the PCP-SL in …
The TRC repudiates the crimes committed against students, professors and workers of the Universidad Nacional del Centro (UNCP). More than one hundred students, professors and workers were killed by different actors of the war, including death squads, confronted in a confusing crossfire. The university was severely affected during the internal …
The student movement emerged strongly against the Government Commission headed by Renán Ruiz, Jesús Véliz and Carlos Carvo, who were considered corrupt. The students carried out a takeover of the central premises of the university that lasted a little more than two months in 1980. This action resulted in a …
Osmán Morote Barrionuevo, an anthropologist who had participated in the II National Meeting of Organisms Generated by the PCP-SL in March 1977, was hired as an assistant professor in the Social Sciences Program, Academic Department of Anthropology of the UNCP. He taught courses such as Introduction to Social Sciences, History …
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