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Testimony collected in Lima from a displaced declarant from Guacamayo, Padre Abad, Ucayali. The testimony is part of the documentation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the effects of the internal armed conflict in Peru. The declarant relates his experience as a displaced person and the emotional and psychological …
In 1997, the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) conducted the Survey of Characterization of the Returning Population in 437 districts in six departments. The survey found that 57.6% of those interviewed had changed their place of residence due to violence and had returned as a result of the …
Beginning in 1995, land and river transit began to be regularized, which had been interrupted for several years due to the internal armed conflict. This transit normalization process took place in the context of the return of displaced families to their original communities in the central jungle, a process that …
Beginning in 1995, the majority of displaced families began to return to the sites of their original communities in the central jungle. The return process had officially begun on September 17, 1994, as part of a campaign promoted by the government and the Armed Forces. However, many of those who …
In 1995, the president of Peru inaugurated Nuevo Uchuraccay as part of the government's repopulation policy. The community was showcased as an example of this policy and was rebuilt on a new site on the hillside above the old town center. Nuevo Uchuraccay was composed of about fifty small houses …
On September 17, 1994, the process of returning the Asháninka communities to their places of origin in the district of Río Tambo officially began as part of a campaign promoted by the government to generate a psychosocial impact on the Peruvian population. The media called this event 'the great Asháninka …
On September 17, 1994, the process of returning displaced families in the central jungle officially began as part of a campaign promoted by the government and the Armed Forces. However, it was not until 1995 that the majority of displaced families began to return to their original communities. Many had …
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 …
The Quempiri community had fled in 1992 due to Shining Path aggression. During their refuge in Natalio Sanchez, the villagers faced constant problems with the colonists and experienced 'boredom' due to forced coexistence. In 1994, after the reduction of the subversive activity in the region due to the military offensive …
On October 10, 1993, with the decrease of subversive action in the area, a group of twenty-four families supported by the Peruvian National Evangelical Council (CONEP) returned to Uchuraccay after years of forced displacement. Due to military reasons and to get away from the 'bad memories', the returnees decided to …
A group of twenty-four families returned to Uchuraccay after almost a decade of absence. This return was possible after months of coordination promoted by Elías Ccente, with the support of the National Evangelical Council of Peru. The community had been totally depopulated due to repeated attacks by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, …
On October 10, 1993, twenty-four families returned to Uchuraccay after a long period of absence, uprooting and diaspora. The community had ceased to exist in mid-1984 when the surviving families fled to nearby communities and towns in the highlands and jungle of Ayacucho, as well as to the cities of …
In 1992, a return program was implemented in the communities of Yerbabuena, Putucunay, Belén de Chapi, Oronqoy, Santa Carmen, Chillihua and Tastabamba. This program was developed after the Chapi Base was deactivated in 1988 and people returned to Andahuaylas. The program sought to facilitate the return of displaced people to …
In 1992, an Uchuraccaíño community member who was enrolled in the Self-Defense Committee of a neighboring community (San José de Secce) returned to see his hometown as part of a civil patrol. He arrived at a hill from where Uchuraccay could be seen and found the town in total silence. …
After the confrontation of September 25, 1990 in the area known as 'La Roca' between ronderos and PCP-SL, many displaced villagers from the Tsiriari valley interpreted this event as a defeat for the Shining Path. This perception of victory over the subversive group generated conditions that the villagers considered safer …
Between 1991 and 1992, the first settlers returned to Mollebamba after years of forced displacement caused by the internal armed conflict. This return was part of a broader repopulation process that began in 1987 with the change in government policy and the actions of Major Miguel Seminario Ayacuchano, who implemented …
On September 25, 1990, an armed confrontation took place between peasant ronderos and PCP-SL forces in the area known as the 'Rock', located in the Tsiriari valley. This confrontation was interpreted by the displaced inhabitants as a significant defeat for the PCP-SL in the region. As a consequence of this …
On September 25, 1990, there was an armed confrontation between Sinchis (police) forces and the Shining Path PCP in La Roca, located at kilometer 14 of the Mazamari-Puerto Ocopa highway. This confrontation was interpreted by the displaced Ashaninka natives as a defeat for the PCP-SL. The result of the combat …
People from Tambobamba migrated en masse to Cuzco and Abancay since December 10, the day the PCP-SL killed three people in Mara and there were other executions in Haquira. This massive emigration is evidence of the terror generated by the subversive violence.
Between 1988 and 1990, the armed forces and the police forces carried out anti-drug and counter-subversive operations in Tocache, San Martin. These operations resulted in the displacement of the drug trafficking firms that were based in that area. The firms were forced to move to other areas of the country, …
In 1988, the Chapi Military Base that had been established at the end of 1987 under the command of Major Miguel Seminario Ayacuchano was deactivated. This base had allowed the return of approximately 150 people who had repopulated the place, renamed Belén de Chapi during Christmas 1987. The deactivation of …
At the end of 1987, a military base was established in Chapi under the command of Major Miguel Seminario Ayacuchano, who was designated as head of the base between October and December 1987. This Major changed the attitude of the army, not allowing detainees to be beaten and gathering people …
Between 1987 and 1990, the PCP-SL established control over a large part of the province of Satipo through a strategy of systematic terror. In 1987 they began the first selective assassinations of authorities in colonist communities. During 1989 they intensified the forced recruitment of young people and children in both …
Between the second half of the 1980s and the early 1990s, the Asháninka people suffered a tragedy of enormous proportions. Some 6,000 Asháninka died, 10,000 were displaced and some 5,000 were taken captive by the Shining Path. Approximately 30 to 40 communities were disappeared and at least 60 mass graves …
In 1985, when the women of Huambalpa were organized and had managed to establish a health center to attend to the displaced population, there was an attack on the facility. A woman from Huambalpa said that at that time they had 260 members in their organization due to the immigration …
In November 1983, refugees from ten high Andean communities gathered in Ccarhuapampa, on the outskirts of the town of Tambo. From the beginning, Ccarhuapampa was organized around its Civil Defense Committee (CDC), which not only established a rigid surveillance system, but was also concerned with the development of the nascent …
According to INEI's 1997 Survey on the Characterization of the Returning Population, 84.9% of the population displaced by political violence took place between 1981 and 1990. The total number of displaced would exceed 600,000 people. This massive displacement left many communities as 'ghost towns', without labor, greatly reducing the possibilities …
This article describes the path to consciousness of which Peruvian women were protagonists during the era of political violence. Spontaneous organizations, formed in the context of forced migration caused by …
This report is a broad overview of the issue of displacement in Peru, based on the registry of NGOs from the Regional Roundtables that accompany displaced populations in the departments …