7 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
Report on the configuration of a necessary theoretical framework to assess the criminal responsibility of members of the Ejército peruano for acts of sexual violence attributed to them by women …
Twenty-five years after the massacre of approximately one hundred peasants in Putis, Ayacucho, documentary evidence has emerged confirming that the Army established a military base in that community and that …
Drawing on recent political processes in Peru — including a civil war and the emergence of a pro-indigenous, ultra-nationalist militarist movement — this essay examines the historical relationship between the …
A journalist who recently returned from the scene of the massacre in the jungle of Huánuco, in the Huallaga valley, gave a harrowing account of the death and destruction caused …
The Peruvian army continues to distribute weapons to peasant paramilitary organizations, despite official statements claiming that guerrillas no longer pose a threat. According to sources linked to the joint command …
The U.S. Embassy in Lima requests instructions from its superiors in Washington on what to tell an Army officer who claims to have belonged to the Army Intelligence/National Intelligence Service …
This document describes the controversy surrounding the killings that occurred in or around Cayara on May 14 and the student protests in response to those killings. According to the military, …
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The PCP-SL ambushed a private van in the Río Frío sector, killing 3 members of an alleged paramilitary group known as Alfa (which would have been made up of police, Peruvian army and repentant soldiers) and 3 other civilians, as well as a soldier. The van was destroyed by gunshots …
On June 6, 1998, the President of the Republic granted a pardon to María Magdalena Monteza Benavides through Supreme Resolution Nº105-98-JUS, on the recommendation of the Ad Hoc Commission created by Law 26655. The Commission established a reasonable presumption that María Magdalena Monteza Benavides was not linked to terrorist activities, …
On May 10, 1995, an armed confrontation took place between PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants and Peruvian army troops in the province of Daniel Alcides Carrion, department of Pasco. The confrontation resulted in the death of one soldier. This event occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations that had been taking place …
Guadalupe Angulo Vela was a leader of parents' organizations or associations in Huanuco who was murdered in 1995. According to CVR records, the Army was allegedly responsible for her death. Her case is part of a series of murders of women leaders during the internal armed conflict in Peru. She …
Isabel Lozano Ríos was a leader of parents' organizations or associations in Huanuco who was assassinated in 1995. According to the CVR's records, the Army was presumed responsible for her death. Her case is part of a series of murders and disappearances of women leaders during the internal armed conflict …
Since April 5, 1994, Operation Aries was implemented with aerial bombardments using helicopter gunships and rocket fighter planes. The Armed Forces prepared special companies trained with Israeli techniques. The operation caused indiscriminate death of villagers. In Puerto Moyuna, on April 8, the military tortured and executed Jesús Vera Virgilio and …
Between March 29 and 31, 1994, during Operation Paraíso, a military patrol extrajudicially executed at least 6 people in Cayumba Chico. The operation was organized by Colonel EP José Orihuela Lavado of the Counter-Subversive Battalion No. 313. The patrol was commanded by Captain EP Roberto Villar Chamorro. The bodies were …
In 1994, Cavalry Captain Gilmar Valdivieso Rejas, known as "Cienfuegos", denounced before the subcommittee on Drug Trafficking of the Constituent Congress the collusion of certain Army officers with drug trafficking. Among those implicated was Major Miguel Najar Acosta, who commanded the Counter-subversive Battalion No. 26 of Tocache. The accusation included …
In 1994, the residents of the Tahuantinsuyo community decided to return to their community under pressure from the Mazamari Army. The military threatened to put other people on their land if they did not return. This return took place in the context of the consolidation of the defeat and dismantling …
In 1994, the Peruvian army installed a military base in Chiquibamba, Cachachi district, Cajabamba province. This installation was part of the counter-subversive strategy implemented by the armed forces in the northern region of the department of Cajamarca. The base was established in the context of the fight against the PCP-Sendero …
In 1994, Army troops withdrew from the Tulumayo after having established a counter-subversive base in Comas since July 1992. Control of the region continued under the control of the Tulumayo peasant patrols, which had achieved, together with the army's operations, the definitive destruction of the Shining Path groups throughout the …
A small plane of drug traffickers landed at the Saposoa airfield with the protection and help of an army patrol from the counter-subversive base stationed there. For providing security, each soldier of the troop received 30 dollars, the non-commissioned officer 'Pocho' received 2,000 dollars, and the technician 'Charlie' received a …
On July 14, 1993, María Magdalena Monteza Benavides gave birth to her daughter K.E.M.B. in the context of her detention. The pregnancy was the result of a multiple rape suffered during her clandestine detention by members of the Army in October 1992. The child was conceived around the last days …
Chatin', an important logistical commander of the PCP-SL's T-4 in Tocache, was captured by an army patrol under the command of 'Cienfuegos' with 200 kilos of drugs in his possession. He was taken to the Bambamarca Base but later released thanks to the intermediation of the drug trafficker 'Cero Cero', …
Fourteen men of the troop, between classes and soldiers, deserted and took their weapons with them after the closing of the Campanilla airstrip at the end of 1992. The closure seriously affected the economy of the troops, who stopped receiving the 'quotas' paid by the drug trafficking 'firms' in exchange …
Rosa Quiste Rupay was detained on February 26, 1993 by members of the Army. She was transferred to El Milagro where she was held in a room. The case is mentioned in the context of documenting sexual violence during the internal armed conflict, specifically in relation to the difficulty of …
On November 23, 1992, María Magdalena Monteza Benavides declared before the judge that she believed she was pregnant. This fact has been argued in different instances as proof of the rape suffered during her detention. Subsequently, a medical examination showed that Magdalena was in fact approximately eight and a half …
A military patrol under the command of Captain José Penas Sandoval, Lieutenant Werner Huamaní Tipismana and others killed eight drug traffickers to rob them of 300 kilos of drugs. This case, known as the 'Ninja Case', was later investigated and prosecuted in 1993.
An army patrol under the command of Ensign Werner Huamaní, nicknamed 'Ninja', assaulted and killed eight drug traffickers to snatch a load of 350 kilos of cocaine paste. The bodies were thrown into the river and the eight sacks of drugs were hidden among the vegetation to be sold later.
The military detachment installed in Comas in 1991 became a counter-subversive base in July 1992. Until then, since the first months of 1990, the peasant patrols were in charge of controlling internal order and the administration of justice, with relative autonomy, assuming all the functions of the communal and local …
Between May 6 and 9, 1992, the National Police and the Army carried out the operation Mudanza 1 to transfer inmates from Pavilion 1-A. The militarized intervention resulted in the extrajudicial execution of 42 inmates and hundreds of wounded. The forces of order used explosives, gases, long-range rifles and grenades. …
In the first minutes of the day, several individuals carrying military weapons, among them a woman, raided different homes in the human settlements. Approximately 18 members of the Colina Detachment, under the command of Major EP Santiago Martin Rivas, kidnapped nine peasants who were brutally beaten and forced to get …
Armed confrontation between soldiers of the Peruvian Army and Shining Path supporters in Raucana, district of Ate Vitarte. Raucana represented the largest organizational experiment of the PCP-SL in Lima, constituted as an 'Open Popular Committee' in the heart of Ate Vitarte. The inhabitants came mainly from El Agustino and Andahuaylas, …
On March 19, 1992, about thirty villagers fleeing from the Alto Cuchara hamlet because of the bombings encountered a military patrol near Pozo Rico. The military separated the women and children and executed them with gunfire, first the men, then the women and finally the children. After a month, Benito …
On March 10, 1992, a commando patrol of the Peruvian Army from Lima entered the hamlet of Bambú and killed everyone working in the harvest. Antonio Bazán Isminio had hired twelve people to help him harvest cocoa and bananas. The murders were committed in retaliation for the deaths of some …
In March 1992, Army troops from the Counter-Subversive Base No. 313, reinforced by the Command Battalion No. 19, carried out Operation Spoon. Approximately 900 men participated. The objective was to teach the villagers a lesson so that they would not support the Shining Path. They bombed the area with helicopter …
Combined forces of the Army and National Police raided the community of Apiza in order to search for members of the PCP-SL. Approximately 100 troops under the command of Lieutenant EP 'Aquiles' gathered 32 people including men, women and children in a house owned by Víctor Penadillo. They interrogated them …
The declarant was detained by members of the Army. The argument for his detention was that all the terrorists wore beards, therefore he was a terrorist because he had one. The soldiers beat him with the butts of their rifles and with their shoes, and pulled his hair while he …
In 1992, a military base was established in the UNCP university cafeteria, at the entrance to the campus. The military intervention was carried out peacefully, and the troops proceeded to clean and paint the walls. The base remained for many years until it was removed when Javier Valle Riestra became …
By 1992, the rift between Luzmila's family and the AC family had worsened in the Yavirironi community. Conflicts intensified because the AC family quickly took up the Army's proposal to form Self-Defense Committees, forming the Yavirironi patrol. Soldiers from the Satipo base, under the command of Captain Carlos Méndez, would …
Magdalena Monteza Benavides was a victim of rape in 1992 at the headquarters of the First Division of Special Forces of the Army located in the district of Chorrillos. This case had great resonance at national level. The CVR report makes specific reference to this case indicating that there is …
In January 1992, an MRTA camp located near the town of Dos de Mayo, Mazamari district, in Satipo, was destroyed by the army. Nine subversives were killed in the attack. This event occurred one month after the failed attempt by the MRTA to take Pichanaki in December 1991. The destruction …
At the end of 1991, the army installed a military base in Pausa, capital of the province of Paucar del Sara Sara. This military installation took place very late compared to other areas of Ayacucho, due to the late arrival of violence in this province. From this military base in …
On November 27, 1991, Cayo Silvestre Carhuancho was detained in Nuevo Copal by military personnel from the Aucayacu base. When family members arrived to ask for him they were denied detention and were threatened with death, finally they were 'suggested' to look in the body dumps near the Huallaga. Seven …
A light aircraft with national registration deplaned at 15:00 hours from a runway adapted by 'Limoniel' (known as 'Vaticano') in Campanilla. The loading and unloading operation lasted between 3 to 4 minutes. The head of the Military Base received 4 thousand dollars per flight, with three to four flights per …
On September 23, 1991, members of the Army entered the home of Eladio Avendaño Medrano, a health worker at the Cachicoto health center. Dressed only in his underwear, he was forced to kneel, handcuffed and tortured. With the radio on at full volume, they cut off his ear and hit …
On September 6, 1991, the Army installed a military base in the Raucana Human Settlement, which remained in place until the year 2000. This military installation put an end to the organization of daily life that the PCP-SL had established in the settlement since its founding on July 28, 1990. …
On August 16, 1991, in the district of Hermilio Valdizán, members of the Los Laureles base arrested César Beltrán Igúsquiza Caldas. He was taken to the local school, where he was beaten. That night he was taken behind the municipal council building, where they cut off his fingers and ears …
On August 15, 1991, military personnel arrested Jaime Gustavo Rodriguez Credo in Tingo Maria and took him to military base 313 Los Laureles. He was tortured with blows, electricity and pliers for seven days. He witnessed executions of other detainees whose bodies were dismembered and thrown into the river. His …
On August 9, 1991, members of the counter-subversive base of Aucayacu detained Sara Luz Mozombite Quiñonez in Sangapilla. They accused her of being a 'tuca' and took her to the base. When family members went to the base, Lieutenant Gringo and Captain Lobo denied that she was there. A week …
Army soldiers detained a group of community members who were coming to the aid of the court for the removal of corpses, holding them in an abandoned house from 10:00 in the morning until 5:30 in the afternoon. At approximately 3:30 the detainees felt an explosion, due to the fact …
The PCP-SL attempted an attack on the city of Tingo Maria using Naranjillo as a base. Approximately 500 well-armed subversives entered from 11:00 p.m. on the 15th, but were intercepted by the Peruvian army that had been alerted by a rondero. A fierce confrontation ensued that lasted until 9:00 a.m., …
An Army patrol under the command of Infantry Lieutenant Javier Bendezú Vargas killed fifteen people, including adults and children, in a mine known as 'Misteriosa'. The detainees were taken into the tunnel, riddled with FAL bullets and then dynamite explosive charges were set off, causing a deflagration that ended up …
An Army patrol under the command of Lieutenant Javier Bendezú Vargas arrived at the Rodeo Pampa annex and arrested the members of the Hilario family, accusing them of belonging to the subversion. They set fire to their homes to force them to leave, keeping them detained for the rest of …
Two military patrols departed from the Lircay Base in execution of the 'Apolonia' operation. The 'Escorpio' patrol was commanded by Infantry Lieutenant Javier Bendezú Vargas and departed at 6:00 p.m. to the area known as Cochajaccsa. The patrol 'Angel' was commanded by Lieutenant Abel Gallo Coca. Both patrols went to …
On June 19, 1991, in Aucayacu, Army troops arrested Leovigildo Decio Hernández Celis at his home at 2 a.m. and took him to the military base. His body was found by family members, burned and without intestines, on the banks of a nearby river.
On May 17, 1991, seven teachers were arrested by the Peruvian Army in the province of Ayacucho. This arrest occurred in the context of the teachers' strike that began on May 8, 1991, whose repression resulted in the temporary arrest of 2,000 teachers, twenty disappearances and 14 murders. The teachers …
As a consequence of the murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos Saavedra, in May 1991 Army officers Víctor La Vera Hernández and Amador Vidal Sambenito were charged with the crime of homicide. Simultaneously, the Military Justice opened a judicial investigation the same month, initiating a dispute of competence that would eventually …
On March 14, 1991, around 11:00 p.m., an Army patrol of approximately 20 soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Infantry EP Colins Collantes Guerra, together with members of the Chuschi Police Station, arbitrarily detained three district authorities: Manuel Pacotaype Chaupin (Mayor), Martín Cayllahua Galindo (Secretary of the Council) and Marcelo …
Francisca Perez Valle Alida was a leader of a university student organization in Junin who was assassinated in 1991. According to CVR records, the alleged perpetrators of her death were the Army or the Colina Paramilitary Group. Her case is part of the systematic violence against social leaders during the …
