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.
In May 1990, a Shining Path column raided the community of Huashua, Apurimac, looting the belongings of the villagers. When the villagers tried to defend their clothes, food and animals, they were mistreated. Gregoria was beaten, her hands were stepped on and her feet were tied, fracturing her hands. Among …
Approximately 500 Asháninka from the Asháninka Army carried out an action similar to that of Puerto Bermúdez in Ciudad Constitución. They took the city and executed reprisals against alleged MRTA members and collaborators, in the context of revenge for the kidnapping of Alejandro Calderon.
The Asháninka Army, made up of between 2,000 and 2,500 natives under the command of Alcides Calderón (son of Alejandro Calderón), marched on Puerto Bermúdez to demand the surrender of MRTA members. They took the city without resistance from the local authorities (mayor Evaristo Zumarán, judge Jorge Camacho and lieutenant …
Nine people were killed by a column of the MRTA in the town of Yumbatos. The victims were: Emilda Sangama Cahuaza, Wilder Flores Jumpos, Teresa Flores Sangama, Julio Huasi Huasi, Felipe Tapullima Amasifuen, Ricardo Pua Paima, Nilo Tapullima, Clever Huasi Tapullima and Brosvin Huasi Tapullima. The crimes were committed in …
The naval attaché of the Peruvian Embassy in Bolivia, Juan Vega Llona, was assassinated in La Paz by a PCP-SL commando acting under the name of the Revolutionary Workers Movement (MOR). Vega Llona had been in the emergency zone of Ayacucho in 1984 and intervened in the debellation of the …
On December 23, 1984, a column of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso surprised the villagers of Pampaccoris, in the province of Tayacaja, department of Huancavelica. The attack was perpetrated as revenge against the villagers because they had helped the Armed Forces in a previous operation. This event was part of the escalation …
In August 1983, the PCP-SL made a bloody incursion into the community of Uchuraccay as part of their revenge against this population that had participated in the assassination of journalists in January of the same year. This was one of three incursions that the Shining Path carried out against Uchuraccay …
The day after the Lucanamarca massacre on April 3, 1983, some survivors who had managed to escape violently broke into the home of the parents of the local Shining Path leader who had been killed earlier by the villagers. The parents were killed as a sign of revenge by the …
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