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Murder in Mariscal Castilla
A woman recounts the murder of her husband in Mariscal Castilla, Huancayo, Junín. The testimony was collected in December 2002 in Huancayo. She describes the devastating emotional and economic consequences that the murder had on her life and that of her children, expressing that she was left in ruin and …
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Testimony on father's murder in Huancayo attack
Two women testified at CVR's Central Regional Headquarters in December 2002, narrating the death of their parents in an attack in Huancayo. The testimony is part of the documentation of cases of violence during the internal armed conflict. The women recounted the memory problems and other psychological symptoms they experienced …
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Testimony on husband's murder in Mariscal Castilla
Testimony number 331031 collected in Huancayo in December 2002. A woman recounts the murder of her husband in Mariscal Castilla, province of Huancayo, department of Junín. The testimony is part of the documentation on the psychological and emotional impacts of violence, specifically related to feelings of hopelessness and extreme suffering …
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Kidnapping, torture and death in Palian
The younger sister of a witness was a victim of kidnapping, torture and subsequent death in Palian, Huancayo, Junin. The case was narrated by the victim's sister in her testimony before the TRC. This fact is part of the multiple cases of human rights violations documented in the Junin region …
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Testimony on the attack in Huancayo
Two women testified before the TRC in November 2002 narrating the death of their parents in an attack in Huancayo. The testimony was recorded at the Central Regional Headquarters. The declarants described memory problems as a symptom of a major ailment derived from the loss of their parents. This case …
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Testimony on husband's murder in Huasicancha
A woman testified before the CVR about the murder of her husband in Huasicancha, Huancayo province, Junin department. The testimony was collected in October 2002 in Ayacucho. The declarant describes the traumatic impact of witnessing or learning of her husband's death, expressing the state of shock and daze she experienced. …
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In-depth interview P179 on disappearances of MRTA militants in Huancayo
In-depth interview conducted in Huancayo documenting the disappearances of MRTA militants in the urban area during 1991, 1992 and 1993. The testimony indicates that the MRTA was hit hard in the urban zone, with many simultaneous disappearances, especially student members of the MRTA. The interviewee mentions that many good cadres …
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Murder of younger sister in Palian
The testimony recorded in the CVR Report documents the murder of a younger sister in Palian, district of the province of Huancayo, department of Junin. This case was narrated by the declarant during 2002 before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The event is part of the multiple cases of violence …
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Massacres and Displacement in Ayacucho and Huancayo
In 2002, testimonies from Ayacucho and Huancayo reveal the severe impact of violence on families, particularly widows who were forced to assume new roles after the loss of their husbands. These women faced significant challenges, including raising children alone and taking on traditionally male roles to sustain their households. Additionally, …
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Capture of Oscar Ramírez Durán
Oscar Ramírez Durán, also known as 'comrade Feliciano', was captured on 14 July 1999 in Cochas, near the city of Huancayo. This event marked a significant blow to the Shining Path (PCP-SL) organization in the central region of Peru. His capture symbolized the near end of the organization's activities in …
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Capture of Oscar Ramirez Duran (Feliciano)
Oscar Ramirez Duran, known by the pseudonym 'comrade Feliciano', was captured by the police on July 14, 1999 in the district of Cochas, a few kilometers from the city of Huancayo. Ramirez Duran had been designated as secretary and political commander of the Central Regional Committee of the PCP-SL since …
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Capture of Oscar Ramirez Durand, Feliciano
After a huge and well-publicized military operation to surround him, the dissident Shining Path leader Oscar Ramírez Durand, Feliciano, who had rejected Abimael Guzmán's peace agreement proposal and kept the people's war initiated in 1980, was captured near the city of Huancayo. Ramirez Durand was the last of the top …
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Vacancy of the UNCP university city
On July 7, 1998, Army soldiers vacated the university campus of the National University of Central Peru (UNCP) in Huancayo. This military intervention took place in the context of years of political violence at the university, where both the PCP-SL and the MRTA had carried out proselytizing and armed propaganda …
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Rape and disappearance in Chilca District
A 15-year-old girl was detained at her school and never returned home, constituting a case of forced disappearance. The case is mentioned in the context of sexual violence that occurred during arbitrary detentions and forced disappearances. The affiant providing the testimony relates this case as an example of the disappearances …
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Mine Explosion Injures Children in Huancayo
A group of children, aged between 8 and 12, were injured by a landmine explosion in Sapallanga, near Huancayo. The explosion occurred when one of the children accidentally stepped on the mine while they were playing after taking their sheep to graze. The incident resulted in severe injuries, including the …
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Internal Displacement in Peru
In April 1997, a report highlighted the challenges faced by internally displaced persons in Peru, particularly those from indigenous communities. The Programa de Apoyo al Redoblamiento (PAR) facilitated the return of approximately 870 families to the central jungle areas. However, the temporary abandonment of their traditional territories led to invasions …
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Capture of Margie Clavo Peralta
Margie Clavo Peralta, an important national leader of the PCP-SL (Shining Path), was captured in the city of Huancayo, specifically in the district of El Tambo. Together with her, Rodolfo Gutiérrez Muñoz, who was a Shining Path military commander, was arrested. This capture represented a significant blow to the Shining …
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Capture of Margie Clavo Peralta in El Tambo
Margie Clavo Peralta was captured in El Tambo, district of Huancayo. Together with her, Rodolfo Gutiérrez Muñoz, who was a military commander, was arrested. This capture took place in the context of the consolidation of the defeat and dismantling of the PCP-SL in the central region between 1993 and 1995. …
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Arrest in Huancayo
A declarant was detained in the district, province and department of Huancayo on February 22, 1995. During her time at DINCOTE, they took her clothes off her top and said things to terrorize her. The testimony is part of a broader context of sexual violence and torture documented during detentions …
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Murder of Cosme Rios, leader of the ronderos
Cosme Ríos, head of the ronderos of the Siusa annex, was killed along with another member of the defense force there by presumed subversives. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that also took place in the towns of Paccha, Tiso, Suytucancha and Ñahuinpuquio during the same …
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Capture of Angélica Salas de la Cruz, head of PCP-SL
Angelica Salas de la Cruz, appointed head of the Mantaro Valley Sub-Zonal Committee of the PCP-SL in mid-1991, was captured on August 18, 1993 in the home of a professor at the School of Social Work. A university student known as 'Henry' worked under her orders.
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Prosecutor Blanca Nélida Colán investigates disappearances of students in Huancayo
National Prosecutor Blanca Nélida Colán traveled to Huancayo in July 1993 to investigate the disappearances of 89 students, including 20 university students. These students were kidnapped by alleged paramilitaries in the context of the political violence affecting the region. The prosecutor's investigation took place at a time of intense repression …
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Armed strike of the PCP-SL in Huancayo
On May 16, 1992, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso decreed an armed strike that paralyzed the entire region of Huancayo. This event was part of the period of greatest violence in the Mantaro Valley (1989-1992), when the PCP-SL was implementing its V Plan to 'Develop Bases for the Conquest of Power'. The …
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Murder of Chaquicocha's ronderos leaders
On March 24, 1992, the PCP-SL assassinated three leaders of the peasant patrols of the Chaquicocha peasant community as they were on their way to Huancayo. This occurred in the district of Pilcomayo, province of Huancayo, in the context of the confrontation between the peasant self-defense organizations and the subversive …
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Murder of eight people in Huancayo high school
In March 1992, the Shining Path PCP murdered eight people in a high school in Huancayo. This occurred in a context of intense violence in the Central region, where the PCP-SL had increased its violent actions against the civilian population. The attack on the high school was part of a …
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Events at Manta Military Base
The Manta Military Base in the district of Huancayo was the scene of human rights violations during 1992. The CVR report mentions this military base in the context of cases of sexual violence and other abuses committed during the internal armed conflict. The base is listed along with other military …
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Rape at Manta Military Base, Huancayo District
In 1992, in the Manta Military Base located in the district of Huancayo, cases of sexual violence against women were recorded. The document also mentions a specific case in the Culebra hamlet, Huancayo, where in November or December 1989 the army arrived looking for a woman who was wanted by …
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Body of decapitated and raped woman found in Casinchihua
In Casinchihua the corpse of a woman appeared, so in the morgue they asked a witness to recognize it. It was her sister, who showed extreme signs of violence: she was headless, decapitated, burned, with her breasts cut off, with signs of rape, with her arms broken, her bones split …
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Disappearances and murders of UNCP students
In 1992, around 20 students from the National University of Central Peru (UNCP) disappeared within six months. Investigations suggest that a clandestine anti-subversive movement may have been behind the kidnappings and murders, with 14 of the students found dead. The authorities have not yet identified those responsible, and the hypothesis …
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Rape in El Tambo
A woman was the victim of rape in the district of El Tambo. According to the testimony, the victim said: 'it must have happened during the rape that the marines raped me in Tambo'. The case is part of a broader pattern of sexual violence perpetrated against women during the …
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Detention, torture and rape of three women in Chilca District
Three women were arbitrarily detained in 1992 in the department of Junín and subsequently victims of forced disappearance. Shortly after their disappearance, their bodies were found with signs of having been tortured. One of the victims was a woman four months pregnant, whose body was found 15 days after her …
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Arbitrary detention, torture, rape and forced disappearance of three women in Junín
Three women were arbitrarily detained in 1992 in the department of Junín and subsequently victims of forced disappearance. Shortly after their disappearance, their bodies were found with signs of having been tortured. One of them was four months pregnant and her body was found 15 days later with torture and …
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Detention, torture and rape at December 9th Barracks
The CVR had access to the statement of a person who was detained with several women in the 9 de Diciembre Barracks in 1992, among them three women who were later found dead. Acts of sexual violence were not limited to rape but also included forcing women to have sex …
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Murder of young layman Jorge Cerrón in Huancayo
The young layman Jorge Cerron was assassinated in Huancayo for his pastoral work at the university and with poor peasants. Shining Path murdered him for his pastoral work and commitment to the popular sectors. This crime shows that not only religious but also committed lay people were victims of Shining …
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Assassination of Jorge Luis Cerrón Acosta
Jorge Luis Cerrón Acosta, a 22-year-old agronomy student and member of the Pastoral University Team, was assassinated by Shining Path (SL) operatives. He was shot twice, once in the back of the head and then on the ground, with a note left on his body accusing him of misleading the …
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Culmination of PCP-SL's Red Month
The 'red month' of the PCP-SL culminated on June 19, 1991 with violent actions throughout the country. This period of intensified violence lasted from May 17, the anniversary of the beginning of the PCP-SL's war against the country, until June 19, a date that the subversive group called 'heroic day' …
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Disappearance of students in Universidad Nacional del Centro
On June 18, 1991, 35 students from the Universidad Nacional del Centro in Huancayo disappeared. This event occurred during the so-called 'red month' of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, a period of intense violent actions that extended from May 17 (anniversary of the beginning of their war) to June 19 (heroic day …
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Disappearance of 35 students from Universidad Nacional del Centro
On June 18, 1991, 35 students from the Universidad Nacional del Centro in Huancayo disappeared. This event occurred during the so-called "red month of the PCP-SL", a period of intense violent actions that extended from May 17 (anniversary of the beginning of the PCP-SL war) to June 19 (heroic day …
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Arrest and disappearance of Manuel Meneses and Felix Inga in Huancayo
Manuel Meneses Sotacuro and Felix Inga, young men from the Peruvian Evangelical Church, were arrested and later disappeared by the police in Huancayo. CONEP together with Ceapaz and the Archbishopric of Huancayo denounced the incident nationally and internationally. The young people were never found.
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Army assumes control of UNCP
In June 1990, the Army and the police entered the UNCP and arrested more than a hundred students suspected of being subversives. In the following months they carried out similar operations until 1991 when the Army took control of the university. This process took place in the context of the …
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Disappearances of MRTA students in urban area
During 1991, 1992 and 1993, the MRTA suffered heavy repression in the urban areas of the department of Junín, particularly in Huancayo. Many student members of the MRTA disappeared in simultaneous disappearances. The situation worsened with the enactment of the Repentance Law, at which time many good cadres from the …
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Finding of the body of Jaime Cerrón Palomino
On June 19, 1990, the body of Jaime Cerrón Palomino, vice rector of the Universidad Nacional del Centro (UNC), was found dead, along with the body of his driver. Both bodies showed visible signs of torture. Cerrón Palomino had been arrested on June 8, 1990. This case is part of …
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Bodies of Jaime Cerrón Palomino and Armando Tapia found in Tierra Blanca
On June 19, 1990, the lifeless bodies of Jaime Cerrón Palomino, Vice Rector of the National University of Central Peru, and his driver Armando Tapia were found in a place known as Tierra Blanca in the city of Huancayo. Both had been arrested on June 8, 1990. The bodies showed …
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Arrest of professor of Universidad Nacional del Centro in Huancayo
The husband of a declarant, who was a professor at the Universidad Nacional del Centro, was detained in the district of Huancayo on June 8, 1990. The testimony appears in the context of cases of sexual violence against women during the internal armed conflict. The detention of the professor is …
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Rape in Cayas Chico, El Tambo
A woman was raped by members of the Peruvian Navy in the town of Cayas Chico, district of Huancayo. The victim later reported that she became pregnant as a result of the rape. In her testimony, she stated: 'it must have happened during the rape that the marines raped me …
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Arrest and murder of Jaime Cerrón Palomino, vice rector of the Universidad Nacional del Centro (UNC).
Jaime Cerrón Palomino, vice-rector of the Universidad Nacional del Centro (UNC), was arrested on June 8, 1990. Eleven days later, on June 19, his body was found lifeless along with that of his driver, showing visible signs of torture. This case took place in the context of disappearances and extrajudicial …
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Human Rights Violations in Huancayo, Peru
On June 8, 1990, the husband of a woman, who was a professor at the Universidad Nacional del Centro, was detained by the Policía de Investigaciones del Perú (PIP) in Huancayo. During her interrogation, the woman was subjected to inappropriate behavior by the police. This event is part of a …
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Detention of Jaime Cerrón Palomino
Jaime Cerrón Palomino, Vice Rector of the National University of Central Peru, was arrested along with his driver Armando Tapia on June 8, 1990. Eleven days later, on June 19, their lifeless bodies were found in a place known as Tierra Blanca in the city of Huancayo. Both bodies showed …
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Army and police intervene UNCP and detain students
In June 1990, the Army and the police entered the National University of Central Peru (UNCP) and arrested more than a hundred students suspected of being subversives. This intervention took place in the context of the struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA at the university, which had reached bloody …
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Murder of former aprista mayor of Colcabamba
On March 28, 1990, a column of the PCP-SL (Shining Path) assassinated the former APRA mayor of the district of Colcabamba, province of Tayacaja, in the district of Chilca, Huancayo. This assassination occurred on the same day that the armed strike called by the PCP-SL for Lima failed. The former …
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The New Horizons of Displaced Families from Ayacucho and Huancavelica. Process of Integration into Urban Areas: The Case of Huancayo
This post-graduate thesis in anthropology addresses the phenomenon of displacement in Peru and attempts to shed light on the reality experienced by a large sector of the civilian population during …
Acocro District Sows 33 Tonnes of Potatoes – News Item
Through a potato seed harvesting project, the Municipalidad Distrital de Acocro managed to plant 33 tons of certified potato in the same district. This means it will no longer be …