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A woman testified before the CVR in December 2002 about the murder of her father in Jauja, Junin. The testimony is part of the cases documented at the Central Regional Headquarters of the CVR. This case is part of the testimonies on loss of family members during the internal armed …
In December 2002, a testimony was recorded detailing the traumatic experiences of individuals in Jauja, Junín, Peru, during a period of violence. The declarant described living in fear of subversive groups and soldiers, leading to a life of constant anxiety and dislocation. The violence had a profound psychological impact, leaving …
In 2002, several individuals, including Fortunata and Mercedes Celestina Núñez Huanuco, were unjustly detained by military forces in Jauja, Peru. They were subjected to inhumane treatment, such as being bound and transported to military bases. Some detainees were released after hours of detention, while others, like Raúl Salas Chocas and …
Oscar Ramirez Durand, alias Feliciano, was captured in Jauja, although the circumstances surrounding the incident are unclear. Feliciano was one of the main leaders of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso after the capture of Abimael Guzman. His capture represents a major blow against the subversive organization.
On October 21, 1992, a massacre occurred in Sincos, Jauja district, in which 8 people were killed. According to the report, the victims could have been students from the National University of Central Peru (UNCP). This event took place in the context of 1992, when violence reached its highest peak …
Víctor Raúl Lavado Olivera, a professor at the School of Economics, who lived in the city of Jauja, was arrested along with his brother at his home by a group of hooded soldiers. His whereabouts were never heard of again. In his syllabus of Historical Materialism he included fundamental documents …
On June 16, 1989, a group of subversives of the PCP-SL attacked the police post in the district of Huaripampa, in the province of Jauja. Two policemen and Teodoro Santos Mejia, who was the local parish priest, were killed during the scuffle. This attack was part of the escalation of …
A combat between units of the Peruvian Army and an armed column of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement took place in the locality of Los Molinos, near Jauja. The Peruvian Army reported 6 fatalities and 19 wounded, while the subversive side reported 63 fatalities and no wounded or prisoners. Civilians …
The Board of Superior Prosecutors of Junin appointed an Ad-Hoc Prosecutor who issued Report No. 02-MP-FSAH-Junin on preliminary investigations carried out regarding the disappearance of people from the district of Huertas as a consequence of the military confrontation with a subversive group. The report confirms that army soldiers intervened the …
The parish priest of the town of Huaripampa, Jauja, Junin, R.P. Teodoro Santos Mejia, was killed during an attack by Shining Path elements on the police post. Two policemen were killed in the same attack. The priest was a collateral victim of the Shining Path attack against the police.
An emerretista commando placed a car bomb in the Jauja barracks as part of the retaliatory actions for what happened in Molinos.
On May 1, 1989, the bodies of the MRTA militants killed in the Molinos confrontation on April 28 were buried in the Jauja General Cemetery. The 55 corpses arrived at 11:00 a.m. on board several dump trucks. During the two previous days, personnel from the Olavegoya hospital and members of …
In May 1989, an armed confrontation took place between the Peruvian Army and members of the MRTA in the district of Molinos, province of Jauja. The confrontation resulted in the death of 6 military personnel and 58 guerrillas, although the MRTA only claimed responsibility for 42 of its dead. This …
On May 1, 1989, 55 bodies of individuals identified as members of the MRTA, a subversive group, were buried in a mass grave at the General Cemetery of Jauja. These individuals were killed during an armed confrontation with the Peruvian Army on April 28, 1989, in the district of Molinos, …
In April 1989, several individuals were reported missing or killed in Jauja, Peru, following an armed confrontation. Despite multiple reports and complaints to local and national authorities, including the Commission of Human Rights and the International Red Cross, investigations were not adequately pursued. The incident resulted in the deaths of …
On Sunday, April 30, 1989, some relatives were allowed to enter the Olavegoya Hospital in Jauja to examine the bodies of the victims of the Molinos confrontation that took place on April 28. The relatives found that their countrymen were totally disfigured, while the bodies identified as terrorists showed no …
On April 29, 1989, the six soldiers of the Peruvian Army killed in the Molinos confrontation the day before were buried. The remains of infantry lieutenant Jhonny Morales Rodriguez, sergeant Yuri Portocarrero and corporal Ulises Rivera Flores were buried in the "El Angel" cemetery. The cortege was presided over by …
On April 28, 1989, an MRTA detachment traveling in two trucks toward Tarma to take the city was discovered by a Peruvian Army patrol in the Molinos district, eight kilometers east of Jauja. An armed confrontation ensued resulting in the death of 58 MRTA members, six members of the Peruvian …
Between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. on the morning of April 28, 1989, Army soldiers intervened residents and passers-by in the Coriac neighborhood of the district of Huertas, province of Jauja, in the vicinity of Pampa Puihuán where an anti-subversive confrontation had taken place. The soldiers extracted people from their homes …
On the night of April 28, 1989, trucks carrying MRTA members were intercepted by an army patrol, causing an armed confrontation in which 6 military personnel were killed and 60 people, including MRTA subversives and some civilians. There were 20 wounded among the soldiers, but no survivors were reported among …
An MRTA guerrilla column was annihilated in Molinos, Jauja, in a confrontation with the Peruvian Army. This was a devastating blow for the MRTA that disarticulated its organizational work and created political confusion among its militants. The repercussions for the MRTA's work at the university were serious, forcing them to …
On 28 April 1989, a confrontation occurred between the Peruvian Army and a column of MRTA subversives in the district of Molinos, Jauja. The MRTA forces, which were attempting to join another column to take the city of Tarma, were nearly annihilated by the army. This defeat halted the MRTA's …
On April 28, 1989, a military patrol unexpectedly appeared in Jauja, Peru, involving approximately 60 soldiers walking in two columns. The troops were reportedly from the Division of Special Forces of the II Military Region, sent as reinforcements and stationed at the Fuerte Cáceres. The confrontation involved subversive groups, with …
On April 28, 1989, an armed confrontation occurred in Jauja, Peru, between the Peruvian Army and the MRTA (Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement). The clash resulted in the deaths of several army personnel, including Lieutenant Johnny Morales Rodríguez and others. The incident also left twenty-six soldiers injured, with some evacuated to …
On Friday, April 28, 1989, more than 100 Army soldiers clashed with a contingent of 67 MRTA members in the Puyhuan Pampa. The MRTA was heading towards Jauja with the objective of taking the city of Tarma aboard two trucks. When the trucks were passing through the Puyhuan pampa, they …
On April 28, 1989, an MRTA detachment traveling in two trucks toward Tarma to take the city was discovered by a Peruvian Army patrol in the Molinos district, eight kilometers east of Jauja. According to the initial report, 62 MRTA members and eight soldiers were killed in the confrontation. However, …
On April 28, 1989, an armed confrontation took place between an Army patrol and a detachment of MRTA militants in the district of Molinos, province of Jauja. The subversive group was on its way to take the city of Tarma when it was intercepted by military forces. This event was …
On April 28, 1989, two MRTA columns encountered Peruvian Army forces in the district of Molinos (Jauja) and were practically annihilated in combat. A column of thirty heavily armed subversives operating in the area of Satipo and Chanchamayo had begun a movement towards the highlands to unite with another column …
In April 1989, a significant armed column of the MRTA was defeated in Los Molinos, located in the Jauja region of Peru. This defeat forced the MRTA to withdraw its key members from the University of the Center, where they had aimed to establish a stronghold for political and military …
In April 1989, approximately 80 members of the MRTA detachment were moving towards the Junin highlands with the intention of taking Tarma, when they encountered Army forces in the district of Molinos, Jauja province, and engaged in combat. The confrontation resulted in the death of 62 people identified as MRTA …
A group of hikers returned to the Apaicancha annex and approached a neighbor's house where he lived with his daughter and wife. They stayed there and asked for food. This family requested to kill a neighbor who lived nearby. The hikers entered the hut and when they did not find …
In 1989, there was an armed confrontation between the Peruvian Army and the MRTA in the district of Molinos, province of Jauja. This combat resulted in the death of 6 military personnel and 58 guerrillas, although the MRTA only claimed responsibility for 42 of its dead. This confrontation was the …
On June 13, 1988, in Aramachay, Sincos district, Jauja province, a North American aid worker and an agricultural technician were murdered by Shining Path militants. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of violence in the Mantaro Valley during the 1987-1992 period. Selective assassinations of this type were …
On June 14, 1987, in the city of Jauja, militants of the PCP-SL (Shining Path) threw dynamite cartridges at a Carlessi company. This attack was part of a wave of dynamite attacks that the subversives carried out against various public and private premises in the Mantaro valley during 1987. The …
On October 25, 1986, PCP-SL (Shining Path) militants killed the Administrator of the Consacc Production Unit and wounded the Deputy Administrator. Consacc was one of the production units of SAIS Túpac Amaru, located in the province of Jauja. This attack was part of a systematic campaign of destruction of the …
The MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) announced the beginning of its subversive work in October 1984 in the Mantaro valley. Its first actions consisted of agitation and armed propaganda activities carried out in the cities of Jauja, Concepción and Huancayo. This was the first public appearance of the MRTA in …
The government stages an elaborate choreography to present the capture of Oscar Ramírez Durand, Feliciano. On Tuesday the 13th, "Operación Cerco" receives 500 reinforcement soldiers. In the end, six women …