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 testimony documents the murder of the son of a declarant in Vinchos, district of Huamanga, department of Ayacucho. This case is part of the testimonies compiled by the CVR on family losses during the internal armed conflict. The witness narrates the circumstances of her son's murder in this Ayacucho …
The affiant recounts the murder of his sister in Vinchos, Huamanga, Ayacucho. This testimony was collected in October 2002 in Ayacucho. The event is part of the multiple cases of violence documented in the region during the internal armed conflict. The testimony reflects the pain and incomprehension in the face …
Testimony collected in October 2002 in Ayacucho on the murder of the declarant's sister in Vinchos, province of Huamanga, Ayacucho. The testimony is part of the CVR's documentation on the psychological and emotional impacts of political violence on victims and their families. The case illustrates the extreme suffering and emotional …
In the early morning of December 20, 1990, a large contingent of subversives of the PCP-SL entered Vinchos, where a Mineral Concentrator of the Vinchos Mining Company was located. The militants carried out several attacks against the Concentrator Plant, the mill, the high tension towers, the board, dump trucks and …
In November 1989, the Shining Path PCP raided the town of Paccha, Vinchos district, Huanta province. During this incursion, 22 people were killed, including villagers and local authorities. This attack was part of a series of massacres that the PCP-SL perpetrated in the northern part of Ayacucho (Huanta, Huamanga, La …
In November 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 22 peasants in the town of Paccha, Vinchos district. The victims included ronderos and local community authorities. This attack occurred in the context of the second wave of sustained confrontations between the PCP-SL and the peasant patrols that took place between 1989 and …
In October 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed 10 community members in the town of Sallalli, Vinchos district, Huamanga province. This event occurred in a context of intensification of the internal armed conflict in the region, when the PCP-SL was launching a new offensive after declaring the transition to the "strategic …
In October 1989, the Shining Path PCP carried out a massacre in Sallalli, Vinchos district, Huanta province. This attack was part of a series of violent incursions that the PCP-SL carried out in the rural areas of northern Ayacucho (Huanta, Huamanga, La Mar) between 1989 and 1990, when it tried …
On May 17, 1989, about 50 hikers entered the village of Ccsancaccay in the district of Vinchos saying 'we are taking the boys who are 13 years old'. In this way, 15 young boys and girls (men and women) were taken from their parents' hands. When some women and a …
In July 1986, a Shining Path column commanded by comrades "Nelly" and "Hernan" entered the Vinchos mining center in Cerro de Pasco. The Shining Path members shot and killed the mine manager, assistant manager and superintendent. Subsequently, they dynamited the mining center's concentrator plant. This attack was part of the …
On June 19, 1985, PCP-SL militants murdered an engineer in the town of Vinchos, district of Pallanchacra, where a mineral concentrator of the Vinchos Mining Company was located. This murder was part of the Shining Path strategy of attacking mining companies and eliminating technical and administrative personnel. The event occurred …
In 1985, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out multiple raids on the Vinchos mining company located in Pallanchacra, Pasco province. These actions included assassinations, looting and burning of the mining facilities. The raids took place on more than one occasion during that year, as part of the PCP-SL's expansion strategy in …
In August 1984, the new head of the political-military command, General Adrián Huamán Centeno from Andahuaylino, participated in a meeting in Vinchos that brought together approximately eight thousand peasants from 44 communities that had organized themselves into peasant patrols. This meeting represented a significant moment in the consolidation of peasant …
In the town of Vinchos, district of Pallanchacra, where a mineral concentrator of the Vinchos Mining Company was located, PCP-SL militants assassinated the wife of the community president in 1983. This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to destroy the existing system of authorities in the highlands of the …
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