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 July 19, 1983, two days after the second Shining Path PCP attack on Uchuraccay occurred at midnight on July 16 during the feast of the Virgen del Carmen, the military finally arrived in the community. The military authorized the burial of the dead from the attack, in which several …
The second Shining Path PCP attack on Uchuraccay occurred at midnight on July 16, 1983, after the conclusion of the feast of the Virgin of Carmen. About fifty members of the PCP-SL entered the town through the upper part of Tikllaqocha, where the house of one of the party's stewards, …
At midnight on July 16, 1983, after the feast of the Virgin of Carmen in Uchuraccay, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the community, killing another 20 Uchuraccaínos. This attack was part of a series of systematic reprisals by the PCP-SL against the Uchuraccay community, which had led one of the first …
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