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.
Testimony given by a resident who witnessed armed confrontations in Uchiza, province of Tocache, department of San Martin. The testimony was collected in October 2002 in Huánuco. The witness recounts the psychological consequences of having witnessed violence from an early age, showing aggression and changes in her behavior. The testimony …
Focus group conducted with women in Accomarca, Vilcashuamán, Ayacucho, as part of CVR's research activities. During this meeting, women participants shared testimonies about aggressive manifestations and psychological sequels derived from the violence experienced during the internal armed conflict. One of the participants recounted how she became aggressive after witnessing violence …
Former presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo Manrique calls for a three-day mobilization called the March of the Four of His Own, in protest against the fraudulent re-election of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori. The first day passes peacefully with thousands of people mobilizing from different parts of the capital. On July 28, acts …
In 1992, violent actions were concentrated in the provinces of Antabamba and Aymaraes. This concentration is evidence of the persistent presence of the PCP-SL in the high provinces of Apurímac despite the capture of Abimael Guzmán.
In November 1991, students in open defiance burned two vans and a large amount of food that the government had sent to the University. This action occurred despite tighter control of the universities with more constant military interventions.
Under pressure from the murders in CAT Quisuni, in a very firm statement, the Ayaviri Prelature distances itself from the land seizures, affirming its rejection of any act of violence and calling for the land problem to be solved through dialogue and democracy. The Prelature also disassociates itself from responsibilities, …
On April 25, 1990, near Ranrapata, three women were detained when they approached to take documents of detained family members. A shopkeeper was also detained. All were beaten and interrogated. The women were forced to cook but later managed to escape. This case illustrates how women seeking information about detained …
On February 17, 1990, the Confederation of Amazonian Nationalities of Peru (CONAP) published a communiqué denouncing the violence in the central jungle. This communiqué followed the massacre of fifteen ronderos in the community of Dos de Mayo and in a context of intolerable conditions of insecurity in the region. CONAP …
People from Tambobamba migrated en masse to Cuzco and Abancay since December 10, the day the PCP-SL killed three people in Mara and there were other executions in Haquira. This massive emigration is evidence of the terror generated by the subversive violence.
Around 1988, another cycle of intense violence was unleashed in the new scenarios where the Shining Path had expanded its operations. The magnitude of the crimes and violations can be explained by similar causes to the first cycle. However, in this period the resistance of the population, its authorities and …
Between July and August 1987, the province of Abancay went through a violent period. The PCP-SL fought for control of highways and bridges, resulting in several attacks on towns and peasant communities. During the rest of the year, violence extended to the provinces of Grau and Cotabambas.
In 1987, violence in the Peruvian internal armed conflict began to escalate again, after a period of decline that reached its lowest point in 1986. This new period of escalation reached a peak in 1989 and remained at relatively high levels until 1992, the year of Abimael Guzmán's capture. Although …
On June 18, 1986, prisoners accused of belonging to the PCP-SL rioted and took some hostages in three prisons in Lima: Santa Barbara (women's prison), Lurigancho and El Frontón, trying to avoid being transferred to Miguel Castro Castro prison. The government delegated to the forces of law and order the …
The massacre in the prisons marked the beginning of the stage of national deployment of violence. This event was a culminating point that considerably marked all the actors in the conflict and brought to Lima images of massacres that had been far away until then. In practical terms, with this …
On December 27, 1984, a Civil Defense Committee in the Ayacucho highlands unanimously approved in assembly that those who had collaborated with the terrorists should be investigated and that the guilty parties would be annihilated by the Central authorities. That this appears in their minute book reveals that by 1984 …
On the night of December 1, when the family was asleep in their home, about 25 hooded men with flashlights abruptly entered the house. They jumped over a wall to enter the house and kicked in the door of the room where the husband and wife were sleeping. After asking …
During the period 1983-1985, a massacre took place in the town of Lloqllapampa. The event was witnessed by witnesses who provided information to the CVR Report. The massacre occurred in the context of the Peruvian internal armed conflict, although specific details about the number of victims and perpetrators are not …
Murder of eight journalists in Uchuraccay, four weeks after the armed forces entered the fight against the PCP-SL. This event caused a break in the conflict when terrible images of the violence taking place in the highlands of Ayacucho and neighboring departments were widely disseminated in the national media. In …
The first phases of the internal armed conflict were marked by its eminently Ayacucho character and by the high peaks of violence reached in 1983 and 1984. Between 1982 and 1985, the conflict was practically confined to the department of Ayacucho. In December 1982, the Armed Forces (FFAA) were charged …
Between 1982 and 1985, the first cycle of intense violence of the internal armed conflict took place, concentrated basically in the department of Ayacucho. During these years, about a third of the murders perpetrated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso reported to the CVR were committed. This cycle was related to the …
The fourth plenary session held in May 1981 specified the initial plans for the development of the 'guerrilla war' and agreed to radically intensify violence. The so-called 'quota' (of blood) necessary for the triumph of the revolution was agreed upon. Guzmán incited his militants to 'carry life at their fingertips' …
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