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.
The PCP-SL called an armed strike for May 17 and 18, 1994 in Metropolitan Lima. This action was part of the subversive modality of armed strikes that the PCP-SL had developed since 1989 as part of its strategy of strategic balance. On this specific occasion, the PCP-SL mixed threats with …
Car bomb attack perpetrated on Tarata Street in the Miraflores district of Lima. This attack was part of the escalation of violence by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso during 1992, a year in which the subversive organization intensified its terrorist actions in the capital. The attack occurred a little more than a …
The Tarata attack occurred on July 16, 1992 in Lima. According to the CVR report, this attack was part of a wave of Shining Path violence that culminated after the police intervention in the Canto Grande prison between June 6 and 9, 1992, which resulted in the assassination of prominent …
On July 16, 1992, the Shining Path PCP detonated a car bomb on Tarata Street, causing fire, destruction and death of people who were peacefully in the apparent safety of their homes. This was the most visible and dramatic event of the period of high violence in Lima. The attack …
On April 29, 1992, a leader of the housing association 'Proyectos Especiales' was assassinated in the intermediate zone of the district of San Juan de Lurigancho. This assassination occurred in the context of a wave of violence against neighborhood leaders in the district during April 1992. The attack took place …
In April 1992, the brother of the neighborhood leader of the human settlement 'Esmeralda de los Andes' (Huanta), located in San Juan de Lurigancho, was murdered. This murder took place in the context of a wave of violence against neighborhood leaders in the district during that month. The attack was …
On February 14, 1992, the Shining Path PCP called an armed strike in Lima during which 25 attacks were carried out. Among these attacks was the blowing up of a truck. During these armed strikes, the PCP-SL assassinated cab drivers to sow terror in that sector of the transport sector. …
On February 12, 1992, a neighborhood leader was shot at the door of his house in Villa El Salvador. This attack occurred in a context of increased violence by the Shining Path PCP in the district, where days earlier a worker and an elderly watchman had been murdered. The attack …
On February 10, 1992, an elderly watchman was murdered in Villa El Salvador by the Shining Path PCP. After the murder, a sign was placed on him with the inscription "Así mueren los soplones" ("This is how informers die"), as a warning to the population. This event occurred in a …
On February 6, 1992, four murders took place in Comas, attributed to paramilitary groups. This event occurred in a context of intense violence in the Northern Zone of Lima, where subversive groups as well as law enforcement and paramilitary groups were operating simultaneously. The murders were part of what many …
On January 13, 1992, a worker from the first sector of Villa El Salvador was shot at the door of his home. This murder occurred in the context of an escalation of violence by the Shining Path PCP in the district, which sought to increase its control over neighborhood organizations …
In January 1992, in response to the military and police presence in the area, Shining Path members threw an explosive at a house that the police were going to use to distribute food to the population in Ventanilla. They also destroyed a canvas water reservoir in a young town in …
Leonor Zamora Concha, former mayor of Huamanga and professor of Social Service at the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University (UNSCH), was murdered on December 21, 1991 at the door of an educational center. This crime took place in the context of a wave of violence against people linked to …
Juan Luis Pérez Coronado, a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the San Cristóbal de Huamanga National University, was the victim of an attack on October 23, 1991. This attack took place in the context of a wave of violence against members of the university community in Huamanga, …
Camilo Fernández Flores, a student at the Faculty of Education of the Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga, was murdered on October 19, 1991. This crime occurred in the context of a wave of violence against members of the university community in Huamanga during 1991. The murder was perpetrated by …
Antonio Huacache Chávez, a student at the San Cristóbal de Huamanga National University (UNSCH), was murdered on October 12, 1991 in the city of Huamanga. His death occurred in the context of a wave of murders perpetrated by paramilitaries or law enforcement agents in civilian clothes against people linked to …
On October 12, 1991, unknown persons assassinated student Antonio Huacache Chávez in the city of Huamanga. This murder occurred in the context of a series of operations by groups linked to the military intelligence services against members of the UNSCH university community. The crime took place a few days after …
On August 30, 1991, journalist and Cambio 90 leader Gustavo Zuñiga was shot and killed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the city of Juliaca. This assassination took place in the context of an upsurge of subversive violence in Puno during 1991, especially of urban annihilation commandos. The crime was part …
On August 18, 1991, the head of the National Civil Defense Institute in Juliaca was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of violent actions perpetrated by the subversive organization in Puno during 1991, which included the assassination of authorities and political leaders. The attack …
The lifeless bodies of Mariscote Santa Cruz and Leoncio Espinoza, both students of Obstetrics at the National University San Cristobal de Huamanga, were found two days after they were kidnapped. The kidnapping had occurred approximately one week before the bodies were found. This event was part of a wave of …
On July 19, 1991, paramilitaries or law enforcement agents in civilian clothes carried out a covert operation at the home of university professor Francisco Solier García. The professor was murdered along with his wife and son using weapons with silencers. This crime was part of a series of murders perpetrated …
On July 19, 1991, at midday and in the center of the city of Huamanga, plainclothes soldiers carried out a covert operation in the home of university professor Francisco Solier Garcia. The professor was murdered along with his wife and son using weapons with silencers. This crime was part of …
On July 17, 1991, the provincial mayor of San Antonio de Putina was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This assassination was part of a series of violent actions perpetrated by PCP-SL urban annihilation commandos in Puno during 1991. The attack against this municipal authority took place in a context of …
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Professor Iván Pérez, professor at the Faculty of Economics of the San Antonio Abad National University of Cuzco. Perez was a militant of the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP Unidad) and was an advisor to the provincial mayor of Cuzco, Daniel Estrada. This assassination took place in …
Luis Morales Ortega, journalist, was murdered in July 1991 in the city of Huamanga. The crime was perpetrated by paramilitary groups in a context of intense urban violence in Ayacucho. This murder occurred during a period of high paramilitary activity against various sectors of the population, including university professors, students, …
Lucero Cumpa, leader of the MRTA, was recaptured in March 1991 by members of the DINCOTE in the Lima district of Magdalena del Mar. On March 11, in one of the most impressive and violent actions carried out by an MRTA commando in Lima, Lucero Cumpa was rescued while being …
On October 28, 1990, there were multiple dynamite attacks against facilities of the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University. The targets included the university residence, the university dining hall, the university health center, eleven transportation units and the printing press equipment. These attacks were part of a wave of violence …
Ciro Aramburú, head of University Welfare at the San Cristóbal de Huamanga National University (UNSCH), was murdered on July 24, 1990. His death occurred in the context of a wave of violence against members of the university community in Huamanga. The murder was perpetrated by paramilitary commandos operating in the …
On November 27, 1989, attorney Hugo Luna Ballón was murdered at his home in the city of Huamanga. Luna Ballón was a former legal advisor and professor at the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga (UNSCH). His murder occurred in the context of a wave of violence against members …
On November 1, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso held a march in Manco Capac Square in Lima. During the event, there was a violent confrontation with police forces. As a result of the confrontation, three people lost their lives. This event was part of the most intense period of Shining Path …
On October 4, 1989, Hector Delgado Parker, president of TV Channel 5, was kidnapped in Lima. This kidnapping was part of the escalation of violent actions by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the capital during the period known as "strategic balance". The kidnapping of a high-profile media figure like Delgado Parker …
The provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Azparrent Taipe, was fatally shot by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in September 1989. This assassination took place in a context of intensifying internal armed conflict between 1988 and 1991, when both intelligence agents and PCP-SL groups carried out selective assassinations in the city. The attack …
The provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Asparrent, was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP in September 1989. This crime was one of the most important in the city of Huamanga during the period of intense urban violence. The assassination occurred in a context of growing PCP-SL activity in the city, …
The provincial mayor of Huamanga, Fermín Asparrent, was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP in September 1989. This crime was one of the most important in the city of Huamanga during the period of intense urban violence. The assassination occurred in a context of growing PCP-SL activity in the city, …
In the framework of the announcement of the arrival of the "strategic balance" in 1989, the PCP-SL significantly increased its actions in Lima with acts of sabotage and propaganda, including the burning of buses, attacks against electricity and water infrastructure, police stations and government party offices. This upsurge began in …
On July 26, 1989, there was an armed strike called by the Shining Path PCP in the city of Huancayo that was particularly violent. This strike was observed throughout the city and was part of a staggered strategy that included consumer strikes (July 1 and 2), a transport strike (July …
Luis Aguilar Romaní, a neighborhood leader and university professor, was assassinated by the PCP-SL in July 1989 in Huancayo. The assassination occurred in the context of intense propaganda and proselytizing by the Shining Path PCP and the MRTA in the human settlements of Huancayo. This crime was part of the …
On May 29, 1989, professor Marcelo Capeletti was assassinated by the Shining Path PCP while giving classes at the San Cristobal de Huamanga National University. Capeletti was an APRA militant and former president of the Ayacucho Development Corporation. This assassination took place in a context of intense violence in the …
On February 2, 1989, the Shining Path PCP called the first armed strike in the entire city of Lima. This event marked an escalation in the subversive strategy of bringing armed conflict to the nation's capital. The armed strike was part of a broader strategy of the PCP-SL to expand …
On January 19, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso called and carried out the first armed strike in Lima, specifically in the area of the Central Highway. This armed strike strategically coincided with the First Congress of the United Left that was being held in Huampaní, with the political objective of competing …
In January 1989, the Farfán Gonzáles family was murdered in Huamanga. This event occurred during a period of intense violence in the city, when both paramilitary groups linked to intelligence services and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out selective assassinations. The event took place in the context of the intensification of …
Radio Onda Azul in Puno was attacked twice by alleged members of the Shining Path PCP. The first attack occurred on August 3, 1986, and later the station was attacked again on July 3 and 5, 1988. These attacks were part of a broader campaign of violence against the media …
Carmen Rosa Cusquén, a lawyer, was assassinated on June 1, 1988 at the Loayza Hospital in Lima. This assassination took place in the context of the escalation of violence by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Peruvian capital, during the period of transition to the encirclement of the city (1985-1988). The …
On April 11, 1988, businessman Brancko Pejnovil Baigm, owner of the Hilados S.A. textile factory, was assassinated in Lima. This assassination was part of the selective annihilation strategy implemented by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso during the transition period towards the "encirclement of the city". The attack is part of the context …
Samuel Colca, an APRA leader of the young town of Micaela Bastidas, was assassinated in November 1987 by subversives of the PCP-SL. This assassination was part of the Shining Path strategy of attacking APRA leaders of neighborhood organizations during Alan Garcia's government. The attack was part of a broader campaign …
On August 29, 1987, a detachment of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Civil Guard headquarters and an army barracks in the very center of the city of Cuzco. This attack demonstrated the confidence in their forces that the PCP-SL had at the time. The attack was part of a series …
On August 29, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an attack against the Cuzco barracks. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that the subversive group carried out in the city of Cuzco during this period, which included attacks against public and private premises, takeovers of radio …
In August 1987, the Civil Guard Headquarters located in the very center of the city of Cuzco suffered a subversive attack perpetrated by the Shining Path PCP. This attack represented a significant escalation in urban violence in the Cuzco region, demonstrating the subversive group's ability to strike targets in the …
César López Silva, national leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP), was assassinated in front of his home on January 30, 1987. This assassination took place in the context of an escalation of political violence in Metropolitan Lima, where the PCP-Sendero Luminoso intensified its actions against political leaders and civil …
Radio Onda Azul was attacked twice by alleged members of the Shining Path PCP. The first attack occurred on August 3, 1986, and later the station was attacked again on July 3 and 5, 1988. These attacks were part of a broader campaign against the media and opponents of the …
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