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 July 1992, the Shining Path PCP murdered eight people in the community of Pallcca. This event occurred in the context of the last acts of violence by the PCP-SL in the Ayacucho region, shortly before the capture of Abimael Guzmán in September of that year. The attack took place …
In July 1991, residents of Quinua were killed by peasant patrols. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the Huamanga region. The peasant patrols of Quinua, along with other patrols in the area, were responsible for this collective murder. The event is …
In March 1991, approximately 100 hikers simultaneously took over the towns of Ñuñunhuayco and Patahuasi in the district of Cangallo. During this PCP-SL incursion, 8 community members were killed in Ñuñunhuayco. This event is part of the continuation of violence in the area during the 1988-1991 period, when the PCP-SL …
In March 1991, about 100 Shining Path PCP subversives took over the towns of Ñuñuhuayco and Patahuasi in the province of Cangallo, department of Ayacucho. During this raid, the subversives killed eight community members in Ñuñuhuayco and six community members in Patahuasi. This attack took place in the context of …
In January 1990, one of the worst massacres of Peru's internal armed conflict took place. The Shining Path PCP raided the town of Acosvinchos and killed 48 community members. This massacre occurred in the context of a second wave of sustained confrontations between the PCP-SL and the peasant patrols in …
On December 19, 1989, an armed confrontation took place in the annex of Palqa, belonging to the district of Sacsamarca. Eleven peasants died in this confrontation. The exact number of people killed by the PCP-SL in this event is unknown. This confrontation is part of a series of Shining Path …
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 …
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 raided the town of Huayllay, district of Luricocha, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. During this incursion, the subversive organization killed 12 people. This attack was part of a series of massacres perpetrated by the PCP-SL in the northern part of Ayacucho (Huanta, Huamanga, La …
On September 14, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided Putaqasa, part of the Sacsamarca district. During the attack, nine community members were killed and houses were set on fire. This was one of multiple attacks on this community, which had previously been razed in 1987. Subsequently, on February 10, 1989, the …
In July 1989, the Shining Path PCP raided the town of Mutuycocha, in the district of Iguaín, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. During this incursion, twenty villagers were killed. This attack took place in the context of a second wave of sustained confrontations between the PCP-SL and the peasant patrols in …
In June 1989, the Shining Path PCP carried out an incursion in the locality of Isccana, district of Luricocha, province of Huanta. This attack was part of a series of collective assassinations that the subversive organization perpetrated in the rural areas of northern Ayacucho (Huanta, Huamanga, La Mar) during 1989 …
In 1989, subversives raided the town of Chupacc, where they killed 30 peasants. This attack was part of a series of violent incursions in the area, as in the same year they also attacked Santo Tomás de Pata, killing 25 peasants. These events occurred in a context where the zone …
In 1989, subversives raided the town of Santo Tomás de Pata, where they killed 25 peasants. This attack was part of a series of violent incursions in the area, including the town of Chupacc where 30 peasants were killed. The zone was under the administration of the political-military command, in …
At the beginning of 1989, the PCP-SL attacked the Laive Production Unit, destroying the milk processing machinery. The neighboring communities of Palmayoc, Palaco, Llamapsillón and Chongos Altos, spurred on by the Shining Path, ended up looting and distributing goods from these production units. All the facilities of the LAIVE Sub-Unit …
In June 1988, a Shining Path PCP column attacked the village of Cuticsa in the department of Junin. During this attack, 11 peasants were killed. This attack was part of a series of violent incursions by the PCP-SL in the region during that period, which also included the attack on …
On October 25, 1986, PCP-SL (Shining Path) militants killed the Administrator of the Consacc Production Unit and wounded the Deputy Administrator. Consacc was one of the production units of SAIS Túpac Amaru, located in the province of Jauja. This attack was part of a systematic campaign of destruction of the …
On June 17, 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated 7 people who were taken to the Wakauta farm, belonging to the Kunurama Rural Social Property Company (ERPS). This event occurred in the context of a PCP-SL offensive in Puno that had begun in May 1986, which included multiple attacks against the …
On June 3, 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso burned the SAIS Union headquarters in Azángaro and distributed the cattle among the population. This attack was part of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against the associative companies created by the agrarian reform, which they considered an expression of a semi-feudal society …
On April 28, 1986, peasants were murdered in Usnuyoc, province of Acomayo, department of Cuzco. This occurred during the period of expanding violence in the southern Andes (1984-1988), when the internal armed conflict was beginning to intensify in the provinces of Cuzco. The province of Acomayo was one of the …
There was a second attack against the Macarí community by groups linked to the ERPS Kunurana. This attack was part of the escalation of violence related to territorial disputes between peasant communities and associative companies in the context of the agrarian restructuring process initiated in February 1986.
Approximately 120 men, 15 to 20 women and 15 to 20 horsemen with helmets, painted faces and camouflage attacked the community of Macarí. The aggressors, who came from the Kunurana power plant, burned thatched huts, herded communal cattle and attacked the community members who were defending their livestock with stones. …
On December 22, 1985, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the facilities of the SAIS (Sociedad Agraria de Interés Social) Túpac Amaru. During the subversive incursion, they burned seven vehicles and set fire to the SAIS facilities. This attack was part of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against the …
In August 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso perpetrated a massacre in the Yaquia ranch, located in the district of Lucanamarca, province of Huancasancos. The attack resulted in 8 peasants dead and 2 wounded. This event was part of the context of generalized violence that characterized 1983 in the area, when the …
On June 24, 1983, in the annex of Huarautambo, in the district of Yanahuanca, a group of 30 men armed with firearms and homemade bombs assassinated Alcira Benavides Albeo de Madrid, after a "popular trial". This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's campaign against the "gamonales" landowners, under its "anti-feudal …
On March 3, 1983, in the district of Chupuro (province of Huancayo), militants of the PCP-SL set fire to a transport vehicle belonging to the SAIS Cahuide. During the attack, two SAIS employees were injured. This attack was part of a systematic campaign by the PCP-SL against the installations of …
In January 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso committed a collective assassination of villagers in the locality of Llusita, province of Victor Fajardo. This event was part of the Shining Path's strategy to 'beat the countryside' by assassinating authorities and 'enemies' in general. Later, in April 1983, the disappearance of 4 community …
In December 1982, the PCP-SL assassinated twelve people in Ccarhuaurán, Santillana district, Huanta province. This event is part of the PCP-SL's strategy to liberate the countryside through threats, dismissals and assassinations of local authorities and civilian population. The rondas of Qarhuahurán (as also mentioned in the text) were among the …
In December 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed twelve villagers in Pumahuasi, also known as Rumichaca, in the district of Santillana, province of Huanta. This event is part of a series of murders perpetrated by Sendero Luminoso in the highland communities of Huanta during that period. The murders took place in …
Alleged subversives set fire to the pastures of the SAIS "Ramón Castilla" in the province of Tarma. This event is part of a series of initial attacks by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against the Agrarian Societies of Social Interest (SAIS) in the central region of Peru. The attack is framed in …
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