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.
A female affiant recounts the murder of her husband in Vilcas, Vilcashuaman, Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in December 2002. The woman relates how the loss of her husband seriously affected her health, especially her eyesight, due to the intense pain and crying she experienced. As a result of this …
The Vilca Military Base in the district of Vilca, province of Huancavelica, department of Huancavelica, was mentioned in the context of human rights violations during 1986. The CVR report records this military base as one of the places where events occurred during the internal armed conflict. The base is listed …
In January 1985, soldiers from the Vilca Base raped five elderly women who were gathered together having a drink and chacchando coca. The soldiers arrived saying they were going to make chicharrón in the plaza and took the old women away. Two of them managed to return, but the younger …
On March 21, 1984, eighteen military trucks arrived in the districts of Manta and Vilca, in the province of Huancavelica. This massive arrival of military troops was part of the Peruvian State's counter-subversive strategy in response to the presence and actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Vilca river basin. …
During 1984 and 1985, members of the Vilca military base committed systematic sexual violations against local women. The mayor of the district received verbal complaints about sexual abuses committed by law enforcement officers against daughters and nieces of neighbors. An average of two rapes per month were carried out, with …
On December 11, 1983, villagers from various communities in the districts of Vilca, Manta and Acobambilla (province of Huancavelica) were gathered by militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in Vilca. The subversives organized these villagers as a 'mass' to assault three Production Units of SAIS Cahuide: Tucle, Laive and Antapongo, located …
On March 22, 1983, shortly after the installation of the Political Military Command in Huancavelica, an Army patrol ambushed a contingent of 25 subversives of the PCP-SL in Jala, district of Vilca. In the confrontation 24 Shining Path members were killed. This military action temporarily contained the expansion of subversive …
The Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso withdrew from the area of Manta and Vilcas in the department of Huancavelica during 1983. This withdrawal coincided with the installation of a military base in the area. The movement of the PCP-SL from this area was part of a moment of advance of …
On July 22, 1982, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso set fire to the warehouse of the Sociedad Agraria de Interés Social (SAIS) of Huancavelica. This attack was part of a series of subversive actions in the Vilca basin that intensified during that year. The objective of these actions was to …
On July 11, 1982, a group of subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso took the town of Ñuñungayo, located in the district of Vilca, province of Huancavelica. During this raid, the Shining Path militants assaulted the village's communal store. This action is part of the first "town seizures" that the PCP-SL …
Since 1981, the districts of Manta, Moya, Vilca, Acobambilla and Huayllahuara, located along the Vilcas River, began to be visited by the subversives of the PCP-SL. In 1982, the first incursions and "town seizures" took place, attacking especially the representatives of the "old power", i.e. mayors, lieutenant governors and justices …
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