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20 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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For the Recognition of Victims of Shining Path Internment Camps
On July 23, 2015, the Ministerio de Defensa announced that the Ejército Peruano had rescued 26 children and 13 adults who had been living under the control of the remnants …
Police Team Discovered the True Identity of 'Alipio' in August 2009
Quechua-speaking agents traveled to the remote village of Ccanobamba, in San José de Secce (Huanta, Ayacucho), where they found Julia Casafranca Cartolín, who confirmed that she was the mother of …
Special Brigade 'Wolf' Bit Shining Path Members in the Vraem Where It Knew It Would Hurt Them Most
The slain "Gabriel" and "Alipio" were not only the most important military commanders of the narco-terrorists, but also those most trusted by the supreme leader, Víctor Quispe Palomino, "camarada José." …
National Plan to Combat Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism
Organized crime relies on an ever-increasing level of sophistication to conceal illicitly obtained assets and give them the appearance of legality, making it increasingly dangerous to the security of our …
President of the Ayacucho Region Asks for the VRAE Zone to Be Bombed
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 …
Human Rights Groups Condemn the Use of Children by Shining Path in Peru
Human rights groups condemned on Saturday the use of minors by the armed group Sendero Luminoso in its terrorist activities, as occurred the previous Sunday in its most recent attack, …
Attack on the Dinoes Base in Ayacucho Was 'Foreseeable'
Jaime Antezana, an expert researcher on drug trafficking and violence, stated on RPP that the narco-terrorist attack carried out at the base of the National Directorate of Special Police Operations, …
Narcoterrorists from the VRAE Break with Shining Path and Call for Abimael's Death
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 …
The Government Condemned Shining Path's Recruitment of Children
The head of the Peruvian Council of Ministers, Yehude Simon, condemned today the recruitment of children by Sendero Luminoso, after a television channel broadcast footage on Sunday showing minors in …
Departmental Report of the Collective Reparations Program (PRC) Ayacucho YEAR 2007
Ayacucho was the region most affected by the outbreak of the internal armed conflict in the country, whose consequences to date remain a pending agenda for the Peruvian state. At …
Emergency Zones: Who Is in Charge? - Opinion Column
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 …
The Taking of Vizcatán
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 …
Shining Path in La Cantuta: Are They Playing with Fire Again?
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 …
Voices from the Global Margin: Confronting Poverty and Inventing New Lives in the Andes
"Your passport, Sir!" It was 1965 and I had just landed in Lima, the capital of Peru, the first stop on my way to the Andes, where I was to …
Shining Path: A Case of Narco-Terrorism?
This work has two objectives: the first is to show how the Peruvian State was able to defeat an insurgent movement with the characteristics of Sendero Luminoso, and the second …
Shining Path: Another Script
New Shining Path directives: intensify work in universities, higher institutes, and night schools. "Overcoming the bend in the road" alludes to Guzmán's speech made from the cage. In one week …
Reflections for a Peace Strategy for Peru. International Seminar "Political Violence in Peru. Analysis and Perspectives".
The study of terrorist groups and insurgent movements has been limited, in recent years, to those organizations based in Western Europe or in some of the four strategically important centers …
Drug Trafficking, S.A.
The book is divided into five parts: the first is titled "Great Britain and the First Opium War." It discusses the war of the East India Company against China and …
Belaúnde Terry Calls Elections in Peru for 1985 and Gives the Army a Greater Role in the Fight Against Guerrillas
Peruvian President Fernando Belaúnde Terry called general elections for April 14, 1985, and turned to the armed forces in response to the bloody offensive by the Maoist terrorist organization Sendero …
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Timeline Events 6
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Second PCP-SL attack on Santa Lucia base
There was a second narcoterrorist attack on the Santa Lucia base, also repelled by helicopter gunships, with no deaths or captures reported. This attack occurred during the resumption of anti-drug actions in Alto Huallaga, after having been suspended for seven months.
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Uchiza Disaster - Attack on anti-narcotics police base
On March 27, 1989, the largest anti-narcotics police base in Peru, located in Uchiza, was attacked by hundreds of narcoterrorists armed with weapons of war. During the hours of resistance, the police were in permanent radio contact with Lima and the surrounding military bases, but received no help. At dawn, …
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Disappearances and Arbitrary Executions in the Cangallo Barracks
In 1986, in the Cangallo Barracks, there were disappearances and arbitrary executions of people suspected of narcoterrorism. One incident involved a captain nicknamed 'Boa', who during an interrogation caused the death of a woman and a man. The bodies were dismembered and carried away in sacks by a patrol, while …
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Belaunde describes terrorism as narco-terrorist mafia
President Fernando Belaunde Terry described terrorism as 'narco-terrorist mafia' on September 16, 1984. This statement came days after the Minister of the Interior, Luis Pércovich Roca, considered on September 6 that there was an 'intimate collaboration between the Italian mafia dedicated to drug trafficking and the terrorism practiced in the …
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Pércovich's statement on Italian mafia and drug trafficking
The Minister of the Interior, Luis Pércovich Roca, made public statements in which he considered that there was an "intimate collaboration between the Italian mafia dedicated to drug trafficking and the terrorism practiced in the country". This statement was part of the government's narrative that sought to link terrorism with …
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Press release on measures against narcoterrorism
On July 6, 1984, an Official Communiqué was published in which the President of the Republic Fernando Belaunde Terry and the members of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces analyzed the new measures to be taken against narcoterrorism. The communiqué gave instructions to eradicate narcoterrorism with the participation of …
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Photos & Videos 8
The coca conflict in Peru - The return of Shining Path
On War. Chasing Shining Path
Terrorist ambush. Shining Path (Part 1 of 2)
Terrorist ambush. Shining Path (Part 2 of 2)
Shining Path is reborn: The FARC of Peru
Statement by Comrade Artemio. December 2008.
'Shining Path' kills 12 in Peru
