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 February 1994, members of the National Police murdered Santiago Lizana Acha, a mine worker, with a bullet to the head in the mining center of Julcani, Huancavelica. The police accused him of being a terrorist. This murder occurred in a context of repression against mine workers and union leaders …
In 1993, the PCP-SL assassinated the industrial relations officer of the Julcani mine in one of its last bloody actions in the mining centers. Since then, the military and the police have been controlling the mining centers. During a workers' mobilization in the Julcani mining center, worker Juvenal Martinez was …
Members of the Peruvian Army entered the communities of Chambara and Humaya in Lima, where they detained six villagers, three from each community. Subsequently, the bodies of the six detainees were found dead on the road leading to these communities. This event occurred in the context of the internal armed …
Four peasants from the community of Chuschi, province of Cangallo in Ayacucho, disappeared on March 14, 1991. Those responsible were identified as the head of the local police post and military personnel from the Pampa Cangallo base. This event occurred in a context of intensified political violence in the department …
In January 1991, the Army raided the town of San Pedro de Cachi, in Ayacucho. As a result of this military operation, 18 bodies were found. This massacre took place in the context of the Army's counter-subversive operations in rural areas of Ayacucho, where they were confronting the Shining Path …
Francisca Perez Valle Alida was a leader of a university student organization in Junin who was assassinated in 1991. According to CVR records, the alleged perpetrators of her death were the Army or the Colina Paramilitary Group. Her case is part of the systematic violence against social leaders during the …
On July 24, 1990, combined forces of the Peruvian Army and the Peruvian National Police entered Ciro Aramburu Villanueva's house and shot him to death. Aramburu Villanueva was the head of University Welfare at the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University. The operation was carried out by members of both …
In May 1990, the town of Yahuarmachay, Ayahuanco district, was razed to the ground. Members of the Peruvian Army perpetrated a massacre in which 47 people were killed. This event took place during the period of intensification of the internal armed conflict between 1988-1991, when there was a significant increase …
In May 1990, the Army razed the town of Yahuar Machay in the district of Ayahuanco, province of Huanta, department of Ayacucho. The military incursion resulted in the murder of 47 people. This event occurred in the context of clashes between the Shining Path PCP and the peasant patrols in …
Between April 20 and 30, 1990, a massacre took place in the province of Chumbivilcas that marked a milestone in the internal armed conflict in the region. The Peruvian Army implemented a new counter-subversive strategy, acting as an army of occupation in the area. As a result of these military …
On November 2, 1989, an Army patrol surrounded a community in Huancavelica and forced the villagers out of their homes. They then called five community members by roll call: Román Quispe Camayo, Overto Macha Solano, Nicolás Reyes Pariona, Simeón Clemente Salvatierra and Filemón Clemente Madueño. These five men were locked …
On October 8, 1989, in a military operation in the mining center of Julcani, Santiago Lizana Acha was killed with a bullet in the head. This act of violence was perpetrated by the military during raids in the mining centers of Huancavelica. The acts of violence provoked by the military …
On August 1, 1989, the National Police violently repressed a march of doctors who were on strike over labor demands. The repression was particularly brutal, using pellets to break up the demonstrations. The Medical Federation denounced more than fifty cases of workers who were blinded by the use of pellets …
On July 8, 1989, the National Police violently intervened with firearms and tear gas at an assembly being held at the premises of the Federation of Civil Construction Workers. The police intervention left one worker dead, identified as Manuel Maman Romeno, and four wounded by gunshot. This event was part …
On February 9, 1989, a peaceful march of approximately 8,000 peasants in the city of Pucallpa was violently repressed by the National Police. The march was the culmination of a strike over peasant demands. This event was part of a series of violations of freedom of association and repression of …
On January 4, 1989, there was an attack by police forces against the Union of Workers of the Peruvian Telephone Company (CPT). The attack occurred while a union meeting was taking place at the union's premises. The workers had previously held a peaceful march in support of their wage demands. …
A declarant was arrested for the second time in 1989 on an avenue in Lima. This second detention occurred after a first detention that had taken place on November 1, 1989 in the district of La Victoria, Lima, when she was taken to the 28th of July Police Station. The …
In the context of the police response to the Shining Path offensive in the region, police forces apprehended and disappeared Mamerta Patricio and Norma Higinio Requena in Raján, Ocros, at different times during 1989. These disappearances were part of a broader pattern of arbitrary detentions and forced disappearances carried out …
Hugo Bustios Saavedra was violently murdered in Huanta in November 1988. His death occurred at the hands of the Peruvian Navy. This case is mentioned in the context of the selective assassinations that characterized the period, in contrast to the massive attacks on civilian populations of the previous period. The …
Sonia Muñoz de Yangali was kidnapped and tortured by the military on May 18, 1988 in the province of Churcampa, Huancavelica. The military shot her in the head and, believing her dead, placed a poster with alleged slogans of PCP-SL members on her. Two months after the failed assassination attempt, …
On January 27, 1987, there was a massacre of peasants in the province of Chumbivilcas, department of Cuzco, perpetrated by the Civil Guard. This event occurred in the context of the highland provinces of the department, where the situation of the internal armed conflict was different from other areas. In …
Robinsón Silva Mori was a university student who was killed by police forces in Huaura province in 1987. He was accused of terrorism in the context of the internal armed conflict. This murder occurred during the period when the security forces were conducting intelligence operations in the area north of …
There was a massacre of prisoners in the jails of Lima and Callao, where hundreds of human beings died. The bishops of Peru pronounced themselves against violence 'wherever it came from'. They pointed out that they could not accept the method of terror as a means to achieve change, but …
In October 1985, a violent eviction was carried out against the invaders of the Garagay estate in Callao. The event is briefly mentioned in the CVR report within the context of political events of October 1985. No additional details are provided on the specific circumstances of the eviction, the number …
On August 27, 1985, a military patrol raided the communities of Umaro and Bellavista, in Vilcashuamán, and killed 59 peasants. This massacre occurred a few days after the well-known massacre of Accomarca (August 14, 1985), where 69 peasants were killed. Both events were part of military operations aimed at dealing …
The prison massacres occurred in 1985, 1986 and 1992, remaining in the terrible tally of penitentiary history. Approximately 350 inmates were killed, most of them as a result of extrajudicial executions. The State, unable to apply a correct and efficient anti-subversive strategy in the prisons, opted on these occasions for …
On August 25, 1984, in Putica, a ranch in the community of Sacsamarca in the district of Huancavelica, a patrol of military men in civilian clothes arrested the elderly Félix Aparco Pineda. He was accused of harboring PCP-SL subversives. His remains were found months later in a cave near the …
On July 19, 1984, Marines detained thirty peasants from various villages in the Ayacucho area. After the detention, the Marines murdered most of these peasants. This event occurred in the context of an escalation of violence that had begun on June 22 of that year, with multiple military operations in …
On July 8, 1984, members of the Navy detained a large number of people from the town of Rosario, located in the district of Ayna, province of Huanta. Later, they transferred a group of these detainees to a place called Matamburu. Once in Matamburu, the Marines shot and killed the …
In January 1984, military personnel viciously beat John Broadle, who was Superintendent of the Centromin Peru Mining Company at the Cobriza mining center. The aggression occurred after Broadle protested against the blowing up of the metal bridge by the military. This incident occurred in the context of the installation of …
The Socos massacre was perpetrated by police forces in November 1983, resulting in the murder of 34 peasants. This event occurred in the same year as other significant massacres such as the Shining Path incursions in Lucanamarca and Huancasancos that left 80 dead in April. Unlike the massacre of 8 …
In November 1983, a military patrol killed 11 people in Accomarca, Vilcashuamán. This event was part of a series of military operations and collective murders that took place in the area during 1983, the year that registered the highest number of deaths in the region. The event is framed in …
During the national strike of March 10, 1983, four workers were murdered in Lima (Comas) by the Republican Guard. The victims were Sixto Pérez Sánchez, José Antonio Monayco, Liborio Alfonso Aguilar and Hermenegildo Julián Huatuco. This event was documented in complaints filed with the International Labor Organization (ILO) as part …
The San Pedro massacre occurred in 1963 in the context of land disputes between communities and haciendas in the province of Chincheros (then part of Andahuaylas). The villagers of Callapayoc, in Ongoy, mobilized in dispute over the San Pedro hacienda. This peasant mobilization caused the death of at least 17 …
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