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Never before has public opinion seemed so decisive regarding the need to apply measures against social violence, crisis and threats of destruction. Perhaps because televised street interviews and opinion polls …
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Between 150 and 300 people, accompanied by Asháninka natives, entered eight communities in the Tsiriari Valley, killing 72 villagers with bladed weapons, including 16 minors. They left 10 wounded, 8 of them minors. Rape and looting were committed. Initially attributed to Sendero Luminoso, it was later denounced the participation of …
On May 17, 1989, about 50 hikers entered the village of Ccsancaccay in the district of Vinchos saying 'we are taking the boys who are 13 years old'. In this way, 15 young boys and girls (men and women) were taken from their parents' hands. When some women and a …
A woman recruited as a child in PCP-SL says that on one occasion the commanders were drinking liquor. Hours later, when they were dizzy, they began to sexually abuse the girls. In the column there was a woman who was in charge of logistics, she took the girls to the …
The hikers took the young women to the park called Ushlalatuco, where they raped them and prepared them physically and militarily. They also trained them to loot animals and learned how to handle weapons so that they could carry out raids. The girls who suffered these acts were sixteen years …
On another bloody Christmas Eve, December 24, 1987, Shining Path raided the village of Rinconada near Pichihuilca. The terrorist incursion ended with the death of twelve ronderos. In addition, the Shining Path forcibly recruited 15 young boys and girls under the age of 14 and took them away. This attack …
On August 4, 1985, the sisters María Elena and Teodofina Chavarria Jorge were detained by members of the Peruvian Army in their house located in Chacra de Chaco, near Huanta. The soldiers arrived hooded and took them to the Castropampa base, without mentioning the reason for their detention. They were …
Members of the Civil Guard and ronderos detained, tortured and killed Ignacio Pahuara Lima, his wife Herminia Pacheco Rimachi and their neighbor Jesusa Sánchez Chacas in the Milhar area. Ignacio had come down from the hill where he was hiding, relying on a police credential. Also injured was Lorenza Pahuara …
At approximately 6:00 a.m. on August 2, 1984, a contingent of Marines arrested several people while they were celebrating the feast of St. James in the home of Concepción de la Cruz Urpay. They were arrested Teófilo Munárriz Velásquez, Concepción de la Cruz Urpay, her daughter Adela Hidalgo de la …
On July 19, 1984, at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon, Navy personnel detained Yuri Agama Anaya, 17 years of age, as he was leaving Educational Center No. 38315 and was on his way home. According to witnesses, a red 4x4 vehicle returned to the scene and its occupants, one with …
During a raid on the Illacancha hacienda, a nine-year-old girl was almost raped by a subversive. The incident occurred in the context of armed actions of PCP-SL in the province of La Mar.
A 14-year-old girl was raped by a group of armed and hooded Sinchis. They violently entered her house by breaking doors and windows. They blindfolded her, put her in a car and raped her among seven of them. At dawn, they put her on a helicopter and in mid-flight they …
One witness narrates that in the meetings that PCP-SL convened in her community, some of them raped, including one who raped a little girl. The case is evidence of sexual violence against minors in the context of forced meetings organized by PCP-SL.
A person who lived in captivity tells of the case of a sixteen-year-old PCP-SL girl who had capitulated but was caught on the road and returned to the base because her mother was there. This young man had raped a twelve-year-old girl. The commanders called him about this but it …