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.
The Reorganization Commission at UNE (COREUNE) ended its functions on November 28, 2000, according to Law No. 27366, when the Transitory Government Committee presided by Rolando Vizarraga and Guillermo Vargas was installed. During the COREUNE period, professors linked to the former Leftist parties were dismissed. Subsequently, COREUNE facilitated, by reducing …
On September 4, 1991, Rosa Pretell, supervisor of the UNE women's boarding school, was murdered. The crime was claimed by the PCP-SL, alleging that Rosa Pretell collaborated by providing information about the inmates to the Army. The students who knew her directly said that she was a snitch and that …
La Cantuta was militarily intervened at 3:00 a.m. on May 22, 1991, following a visit by then president Fujimori to the campus. Military troops stormed the university. By then, most of the 300 residents were aware of the situation and had managed to leave the premises beforehand. Among the students …
On January 26, 1991, a local television station projected a video showing a political and cultural event held inside the UNE, where it could be seen that, with the participation of Shining Path leaders, university students and students from a school paraded carrying flags of the PCP-SL and singing hymns …
Since 1988, the PCP-SL gained control of the Comité Lucha de Comensales, displacing Patria Roja and what was left of the FEUL. Previously, after the prison massacre in 1986, the PCP-SL began a strong symbolic presence in the UNE, installing a series of murals with themes and slogans alluding to …
As the years went by, the militants of Puka Llaqta were absorbed by the PCP-SL until they disappeared as a group around 1987. Since the first schism of Patria Roja, most of the radicalized sectors of Puka Llaqta, who had political work in trade unions and among the peasantry, joined …
In 1987 the great march of sacrifice from La Cantuta to Lima took place, with the participation of between 3000 and 4000 students, led by the university authorities including Milcíades Hidalgo. During the march, the PCP-SL appropriated all the slogans, changing slogans such as 'combat, resist, popular slogan' to 'combat, …
The 1986 prison massacre had a symbolic impact on the National University of Education. Shortly after these events, the portrait of Abimael Guzmán was drawn on the walls of the university dining hall at La Cantuta, symbolically representing the PCP-SL's domination of the university. This marked a turning point in …
Starting in 1984, the PCP-SL began to absorb Puka Llaqta and forces with little political presence such as the VRPC (Vanguardia Revolucionaria Proletario Comunista), experiencing exponential growth and gaining control of spaces considered vital. The PCP-SL begins to develop a work of gradual expansion in various faculties, combining popular schools …
In 1982, the PCP-SL was still a politically minority force in the UNE, while the United Left bloc constituted the New University project, which involved teachers, authorities and students. In this first moment, the PCP-SL articulated its work in the MOTC (Workers and Classist Workers Movement) of the Carretera Central. …
The National University of Education (UNE) is ordered to recess. Hugo Muñoz, husband of Nilda Atanasio, was seconded to the provinces during this period. Both ended up traveling to China. This recess was part of the military government's measures against universities. Upon his return, Atanasio returned to teaching at the …
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