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.
On September 24, 1990, a group of drunken policemen, according to testimonies, arrested lawyer Marcelino Valencia in Chumbivilcas. Valencia was an advisor to the Agrarian League and a defender of peasant communities. This event occurred in the context of military and police operations in the highland provinces of Cusco and …
One affiant was detained by the police at her home in the district of Chorrillos in 1989. This case is one of the documented testimonies of arbitrary detentions that occurred in Lima during the internal armed conflict. The detention took place at the victim's home in this Lima district.
In the early hours of August 2, 1984, the home of Julia Sulca Viuda de Ayala, mother of journalist Jaime Ayala, was allegedly raided by members of the Investigative Police. During the raid, her son Eduardo Ayala Sulca was kicked in the back and another in the face, causing a …
On July 27, 1984, members of the Civil Guard detained and assassinated in Puquio the peasant leader Jesús Oropesa, burning his corpse, which was not found until August 10. Oropesa was a leader of the national CNA and of the Uteq community, and proposed the maintenance of the Viseca hacienda …
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