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 October 16, 1987, a group of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the village of Chinche Tingo, where three recently elected local authorities were assassinated. This attack occurred in a context in which, after the decline of subversive actions in the highlands since 1987, the villagers had once again elected their …
On April 14, 1985, presidential elections were held in Peru, in a context of political violence. In the community of San Juan Baños de Rabí, district of Yanahuanca, province of Daniel Alcides Carrión, department of Pasco, one hundred villagers traveled to Yanahuanca to exercise their vote, after putting to flight …
On Sunday, April 14, 1985, the day of the presidential elections, one hundred villagers from San Juan Baños de Rabí traveled to Yanahuanca to exercise their right to vote. This act represented a demonstration of direct resistance against the subversive incursions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The villagers put to flight …
In December 1984, a state of emergency was declared in the province of Daniel Alcides Carrion due to the inability of the police response to stop the dizzying increase in the number of attacks and victims, as well as the territorial expansion of the PCP-SL forces. After the state of …
In the last days of December 1984, a counter-subversive Army base was installed in Chinche Tingo. This installation followed the decree of a state of emergency in the province of Daniel Alcides Carrión in December 1984, when the Army first established a military base in the district of Yanahuanca in …
After a state of emergency was decreed in the province of Daniel Alcides Carrion in December 1984, the Army established a military base in the district of Yanahuanca in mid-December. In the last days of December 1984, another counter-subversive base was installed in Chinche Tingo. The military presence and the …
On October 13, 1984, a month after a collective murder in Chinche Tingo where four people died, PCP-SL militants entered the village again. The subversives took Basilio Osorio Bonilla with them and murdered him. To this day, the fate of his remains is unknown. This murder occurred in a context …
On September 8, 1984, at 11:00 a.m., a group of subversives of the PCP-SL took the town of Chinche Tingo. The Shining Path militants murdered four people: Flavio Guzmán, professor Pablo Bustillos Loyola, Florencio Loyola Esteban and Víctor Rojas. The victims had been active promoters of vigilance measures and denunciations …
In September 1984, in the district of Yanahuanca, province of Daniel Alcides Carrion in Pasco, the Shining Path PCP murdered three villagers from Chinche Tingo. The victims were executed for proposing to create surveillance mechanisms in the locality. This event occurred in a context where the PCP-SL had been assassinating …
On August 8, 1984, a contingent of the PCP-SL entered the town of Santa Rosa de Astobamba, in the district of Yanahuanca. During this incursion, the Shining Path militants assassinated Antonio Artica Sosa, who was a municipal agent. This assassination was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to destroy the existing …
In August 1984, in several villages in the district of Yanahuanca, province of Daniel Alcides Carrion in Pasco, local authorities were assassinated by the Shining Path PCP. This event took place in the context of the PCP-SL's strategy of controlling the countryside by assassinating local authorities and landowners. Previously, in …
On June 24, 1983, a group of thirty subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Alcira Benavides Albeo in Madrid, annex of Huarautambo, district of Yanahuanca. She was accused of being a "gamonalista" and was subjected to a popular trial before her execution. After the assassination, her hacienda was looted and …
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 …
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