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 November 7, 1989, a group of PCP-SL militants assaulted the police post in the city of La Oroya. As a result of the attack, three policemen were wounded. This assault took place in the context of the V Shining Path Plan to 'Develop Bases in function of the Conquest …
On July 13, 1989, a Shining Path column dynamited the compressor house, ventilation pipes and the power plant of Centromín Perú in Morococha. This attack was part of a series of terrorist actions against the mining infrastructure that the PCP-SL had been carrying out in the area for months. The …
On May 7, 1989, as he was leaving an assembly, Antonio Cajachagua Leiva, general secretary of the Morococha mine workers' union, was shot in the head and killed. His former colleagues state that he was also against the strikes and attributed the assassination to the Shining Path. This murder took …
On May 7, 1989, in Morococha, Yauli province, Antonio Cajachagua, General Secretary of the Morococha Mine Workers Union (STMM), was assassinated by a group of hooded men. This assassination took place in the context of a series of selective executions against mining union leaders who had publicly opposed the actions …
On April 15, 1989, a Shining Path column carried out a terrorist attack by dynamiting the industrial relations offices and the eight-inch air pipeline of Centromín Perú in Morococha. This attack was part of a series of PCP-SL attacks against the mining infrastructure in the region. The attack affected the …
On December 26, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out one of the biggest attacks in Morococha, dynamiting the compressor house of Centromín Perú. This attack had serious consequences for the mine workers, who were paralyzed for 15 days due to the lack of compressed air necessary for the operation of …
On October 17, 1988, mining leader Alejandro Patiño Flores was shot in the head and killed in Morococha. The assassination was attributed to alleged Shining Path members of the PCP-SL. Patiño Flores had opposed the national mining strike, as had Fidencio Coronel in La Oroya, who was also murdered the …
Alejandro Patiño, former leader of the Morococha Mine Workers Union (STMM) and an APRA militant, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso on October 17, 1988. This assassination took place in the context of important mobilizations and strikes of mining workers demanding the recognition of the single national miners' list proposed …
On July 21, 1988, during a national strike in which the great majority of the mineworkers who blocked the central highway participated, there was a confrontation between members of the National Police and a small group of mothers who had joined the strike. The confrontation escalated when an excited police …
In the first months of 1988, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso approached the inhabitants of Morococha in a friendly and non-violent manner, seeking to recruit them as supporters of their organization. The Shining Path members visited stores and homes, such as that of one family where they tried to convince …
On August 8, 1984, a large group of subversives of the PCP-SL entered the community of Pachaclla, located in the district of Yauli, province of Huancavelica. The community had organized incipient peasant patrols to defend themselves from Shining Path incursions. During this incursion, PCP-SL militants murdered the wife of a …
On January 5, 1984, a column of subversives of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso took the capital of the district of Yauli in the province of Huancavelica. After haranguing the assembled population, the Shining Path militants murdered two villagers who had refused to collaborate with them. This action was part of the …
On August 17, 1980, PCP-SL (Shining Path) militants set fire to the Santa Rosa de Sacco District Council in the province of Yauli. This attack was part of the first violent actions of the PCP-SL in the central region of Peru, specifically in the department of Junin. The burning of …
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