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.
Operation Aries had to be stopped definitively on May 26, 1994 due to serious allegations of human rights violations received by the National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH) and the Human Rights Commission of the Democratic Constituent Congress (CCD). After fifty days of encircling operations and captures that began on April …
On November 27, 1991, Cayo Silvestre Carhuancho was detained in Nuevo Copal by military personnel from the Aucayacu base. When family members arrived to ask for him they were denied detention and were threatened with death, finally they were 'suggested' to look in the body dumps near the Huallaga. Seven …
On September 23, 1991, members of the Army entered the home of Eladio Avendaño Medrano, a health worker at the Cachicoto health center. Dressed only in his underwear, he was forced to kneel, handcuffed and tortured. With the radio on at full volume, they cut off his ear and hit …
On August 16, 1991, in the district of Hermilio Valdizán, members of the Los Laureles base arrested César Beltrán Igúsquiza Caldas. He was taken to the local school, where he was beaten. That night he was taken behind the municipal council building, where they cut off his fingers and ears …
On August 15, 1991, military personnel arrested Jaime Gustavo Rodriguez Credo in Tingo Maria and took him to military base 313 Los Laureles. He was tortured with blows, electricity and pliers for seven days. He witnessed executions of other detainees whose bodies were dismembered and thrown into the river. His …
On August 9, 1991, members of the counter-subversive base of Aucayacu detained Sara Luz Mozombite Quiñonez in Sangapilla. They accused her of being a 'tuca' and took her to the base. When family members went to the base, Lieutenant Gringo and Captain Lobo denied that she was there. A week …
On June 19, 1991, in Aucayacu, Army troops arrested Leovigildo Decio Hernández Celis at his home at 2 a.m. and took him to the military base. His body was found by family members, burned and without intestines, on the banks of a nearby river.
On November 24, 1990, Army troops entered the town of Primavera, near Aucayacu, which had been identified as a subversive base. The raid turned into a massacre in which 24 people were killed, some of them mutilated, with their ears, tongues and testicles cut off.
On September 25, 1990, Leywer Ruiz Trigoso was arrested in the village of Huanganapampa by military troops from Rupa Rupa. He was later found dead with his body machine-gunned and his head mutilated by an explosive.
On August 15, 1990, in La Morada, Leonardo Jara was intercepted by members of the Army. They held him down and cut his face and ear. They then took him to the Madre Mía military base in Nuevo Progreso and to this day he is still missing.
On June 24, 1990, in the district of Colpas, members of the Army took Flaviano Presentación Córdova and Gregorio Tolentino Carvajal from their homes, tied their hands and blindfolded them, and put them in a vehicle where they trampled them. They were taken to the Yanac military base. There Flaviano …
On February 7, 1990, 11 members of the Army entered the Tambillo Grande hamlet and detained 12 people, of whom the names of 6 are known, including a 14-year-old adolescent. Four of them were released. One of those identified was found dead on the banks of the Huallaga River; others …
On February 5, 1990, Julio Alvarado Bardales, a coca farmer, was arrested by Army troops at a party. He was accused of being a terrorist because members of the PCP-SL sometimes came to his house. Days later he was taken to his father's house, who saw that his ears had …
On January 6, 1990, in Angashyacu, the PCP-SL decreed an armed strike and left a bomb at the door of Anatolio Trujillo's house. When the red flag was removed, the bomb exploded, injuring a member of the military. The military entered the house shooting and killed Anatolio with a bullet …
Journalist Hugo Bustios Saavedra was murdered in Huanta by members of the Peruvian Army in November 1988. This murder occurred in a context of intensifying internal armed conflict in the region, during which multiple operations by groups linked to the intelligence services were carried out against journalists, teachers and other …
On July 3, 1988, Juan Luis Cipriani was named auxiliary bishop of Ayacucho, who little by little acquired a certain influence in the political life of the department. Cipriani will maintain a position justifying the violation of human rights, endorsing with his words and omissions the numerous murders committed by …
On October 5, 1984, there was an intervention by Sinchis police forces in the province of Tayacaja, department of Huancavelica. As a result of this operation, 12 people were reported dead, 11 disappeared and 8 wounded. This event occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations in the area during the …
In July 1984, members of the Peruvian Army perpetrated a mass murder in the town of Pucayacu, Ayna district, La Mar province. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of military operations in the Apurimac River Valley during 1984, the year in which the Armed Forces and the …
In June 1984, soldiers murdered eight villagers in the town of Rosario, Ayna district, La Mar province. This event occurred during the period of greatest violence in the Apurimac River Valley, when the Armed Forces had taken control of the area under the Political Military Command. The event took place …
In April 1983, several residents of Totos, a district in the province of Cangallo, were detained by members of the Peruvian Army. Some of the detainees were later killed. This event took place in the context of the military offensive initiated in January 1983 against supposed support bases of the …
Marka's newspaper reported that groups of paramilitaries had been armed and trained to kill by the Political Command of the declared emergency zone. The head of the Political Military Command was General EP Clemente Noel Moral. This denunciation took place in the context of the anti-subversive struggle in Ayacucho, where …
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