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 April 13, 1988, a column of forty heavily armed members of the PCP-SL, supported by local campesinos, attacked Pichiwillca, the main base of the DECAS in the VRAE. The attack was repelled with the help of local ronderos from Anchihuay and a detachment of the Peruvian Navy, resulting in …
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Peru is the new cradle of drug trafficking; this is reflected in the latest report of the Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), which was produced by the governments of the …
The Joint Command of the Armed Forces reported that during the early hours of Monday, a confrontation between authorities and members of Sendero Luminoso in the jungle of Ayacucho (southern …
Interview with Kimberly Theidon and Edith Del Pino. Both researchers have been working for several years on the aftermath of the internal armed conflict in Ayacucho, Huancavelica, and the VRAE. …
Last Wednesday, June 5, in his statement before a tribunal scheduled the reading of the sentence, the last member of the Central Committee of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso, Florindo …
The objective of this research is to study the set of political strategies that the armed forces developed to confront two simultaneous processes that occurred following the democratic transition initiated …
Although soundly defeated in the early mid-1990s, Shining Path did not disappear. Over the past five years, it has reemerged in a substantially different form, with both a military and …
"From a very young age they took me to the jungle. They forced me to have children. They (the ringleaders) said: You are single, you join (the terrorist column) to …
Illicit drug trafficking, which involves a high demand for illicit coca leaf cultivation, plays an important role in the economic dynamics of the VRAE. In this context, Sendero Luminoso has …
In the fight against what remains of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso in the jungle and central highlands of Peru, the armed forces stopped patrolling to avoid being easy targets, …
The objective of this research is to study the set of political strategies developed by the armed forces to confront two simultaneous processes that occurred following the transition to democracy …
This university thesis examines the negotiations between the government of Alberto Fujimori and the leadership of the Partido Comunista del Perú-Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL) in the context of the 1993 constitutional …
The Wikileaks revelations. The United States will provide military assistance to Peru to combat the terrorism of Sendero Luminoso, which caused a large share of the more than 69,000 deaths …
The last time I was in Pichiwillca, the village from which resistance to Sendero Luminoso was organized in the VRAE in the 1980s, the leaders of that overlooked but heroic …
Report submitted to the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) at its 138th session by the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos. It addresses the use of children and adolescents in …
The Defensoría del Pueblo issued a communiqué today in which it EXPRESSES, before public opinion, its most profound REJECTION of the use of minors in terrorist activities, as was observed …
The group of Senderista remnants operating in the valley of the Apurímac and Ene rivers (VRAE) is not very different from its sinister historical parent. Like the terrorist band created …
From the Peace Agreement signed by Abimael Guzmán during the regime of Alberto Fujimori (October 3, 1993) to the present day, the remnants of Sendero Luminoso in the Valle de …
The head of the Ayacucho region requested greater severity in confronting subversion and called for "letting go of fear of human rights" in order to fight the narco-terrorists, of whom …
Regrettably, at this point it is clear that Defense Minister Rafael Rey was not up to the job — or the uniform. Rey acknowledged that he is in the final …
If the present of the VRAE abounds in dilemmas, its past offers more than lessons. The defiant beauty of this valley was the stage for an uninterrupted and brutally lethal …
Sendero Luminoso's transformation into a 'narco-guerrilla' forces the Government to revise its defense strategy — 'narcos' have killed 50 soldiers in one year. The great terror that Sendero Luminoso now …
Camarada Alipio has finally been fully identified. Identified as a "military commander" of Sendero in the VRAE and the perpetrator of brutal attacks on the Army and Police, the mystery …
Both in the VRAE and in the Alto Huallaga there are provinces and districts declared as emergency zones. In them, an explosive combination of five factors comes together: the presence …
A real war has been waged in Vizcatán, the impregnable Shining Path stronghold in the Valle de los Ríos Apurímac-Ene (VRAE). The battle has two sides facing each other: the …
Sendero Luminoso is buzzing with activity. While the imprisoned leadership cooks up a reunion between the Political Solution sponsored by Abimael Guzmán and the supposedly rebel Proseguir faction, the freed …
Fifteen years ago, the districts of Sivia and Llochegua, located in the province of Huanta, in the jungle foothills connecting the departments of Ayacucho and Cuzco, were declared a liberated …
Four hundred soldiers and intelligence agents joined the pursuit in Peru today of the column of the guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso that on Saturday killed nine soldiers in the central …
39 peasants from a remote jungle village, Canaire in the department of Ayacucho, have been massacred by Sendero Luminoso. The killing was apparently in retaliation for the village's efforts to …