In 1965, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla movement took place in the province of La Mar, Peru. This event is remembered for the assassination of the Carrillo brothers, owners of the Chapi estate, and the subsequent violent incursion by the Guardia Civil, which involved repression, torture, and killings …
In 1965, there were peasant mobilizations in several districts of Andahuaylas province in response to ELN (National Liberation Army) actions in Chungui, La Mar province. The ELN's actions impacted Andahuaylas province, generating more peasant mobilizations against the hacienda regime in the districts of Chicmo, Pampachiri, Pacucha, Ocobamba and Ongoy. The …
In 1965, actions of the National Liberation Army (ELN) were registered in Chungui, province of La Mar. These actions also had an impact in the province of Andahuaylas, with more peasant mobilizations against the hacienda regime in various districts such as Chicmo, Pampachiri, Pacucha, Ocobamba and Ongoy. The ELN's guerrilla …
The first important event that affected the Apurímac River Valley was the 1965 guerrilla war, led by a group of the ELN headed by Héctor Béjar. This guerrilla definitely disrupted the existing order in the province of La Mar. The process of land appropriation accelerated later with the application of …
In September 1965, the National Liberation Army (ELN) initiated actions in the province of La Mar, in Ayacucho. This was a new insurrectional attempt by the ELN, following previous guerrilla attempts in 1961-1963. The ELN guerrilla movement in this area was part of the second wave of guerrilla actions in …
The land seizure in Chincheros and Andahuaylas in 1974 was a significant event that indirectly affected the area known as 'Oreja de perro' in the province of La Mar. The most important precedent for this event was the death of 20 peasants in Ongoy in the 1960s. The land seizure …
On October 11, 1981, fifty Shining Pathists assaulted the police post in the district of El Tambo, province of La Mar, Ayacucho, causing the death of members of the security forces and seizing the weapons they found in the police station. This attack was part of the II military plan …
50 people led by a group of armed hikers razed the Tambo police post in the province of La Mar, Ayacucho. They seized two submachine guns, three revolvers and killed three policemen. During the assault they threw acid in the face of the guards defending the post. The slogan of …
On October 12, 1981, one day after the assault on the El Tambo police post, the President of the Republic, architect Fernando Belaunde Terry, declared a state of emergency in five provinces of the department of Ayacucho: Cangallo, Huamanga, Huanta, La Mar and Víctor Fajardo. This situation implied the suspension …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry declared for the first time a state of emergency in Ayacucho commanded by the FFPP through supreme decree 036-81-IN. The state of emergency was extended for sixty days to five Ayacucho provinces: Huanta, La Mar, Huamanga, Cangallo and Victor Fajardo. General GC Carlos Barreto Bretoneche assumed …
The government placed five of the seven provinces of Ayacucho - Huamanga, Huanta, Cangallo, La Mar and Victor Fajardo - under a state of emergency, suspending constitutional guarantees regarding individual freedom for 60 days. This presidential decision included the suspension of guarantees, but not the entry of the Armed Forces.
The government declared a state of emergency in five of the seven provinces of Ayacucho (Huamanga, Huanta, Cangallo, La Mar and Victor Fajardo), suspended for 60 days the constitutional guarantees related to individual freedom and security, and sent the counter-subversive police detachment of 'los sinchis' to Ayacucho. The disinformation of …
On October 12, 1981, Supreme Decree 026-81-IN was promulgated by which five provinces of the department of Ayacucho were declared in a state of emergency: Huamanga, Huanta, Cangallo, La Mar and Víctor Fajardo. This declaration of emergency was used as a pretext to put a damper on the rapid increase …
On October 12, the government decreed a state of emergency in five of the seven provinces of Ayacucho (Huamanga, Huanta, Cangallo, La Mar and Víctor Fajardo) and suspended for sixty days the constitutional guarantees related to individual freedom and security. This was the first time a state of emergency was …
On October 12, 1981, the Government decreed a State of Emergency in the provinces of Huamanga, Huanta, La Mar, Cangallo and Victor Fajardo, as a consequence of the political violence initiated in the department of Ayacucho in 1980 by the PCP-SL. Initially, the former Civil Guard was in charge of …
On October 12, 1981, the Peruvian government decreed a state of emergency in five of the seven provinces of the department of Ayacucho: Huamanga, Huanta, La Mar, Cangallo and Victor Fajardo. This measure was established in response to the increase in PCP-Sendero Luminoso actions, particularly after the attack on the …
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.
The first 450 Army reinforcements were sent to Ayacucho and the three battalions that had been barracked were deployed. On December 29, the entry of the Armed Forces in the fight against subversion was made official. The Marine Infantry also entered. With the establishment of the Political Military Command (CPM), …
On 29 December 1982, President Belaunde of Peru declared a state of emergency in several provinces, including Huanta, La Mar, Cangallo, Víctor Fajardo, Huamanga, and parts of Huancavelica and Apurímac. This decision was made in response to increasing violence and armed actions by the PCP-SL, including attacks on police posts …
On December 27, 1982, President Belaunde gave an ultimatum of 72 hours for the terrorists to surrender their weapons before the armed forces took control of the emergency zone. General Roberto Clemente Noel y Moral was appointed as Chief of the Political Military Command of the Emergency Zone and on …
On December 29, 1982, through Supreme Decree 068-82-IN, the Peruvian government instructed the Armed Forces to assume internal control in five Ayacucho provinces. This decision marked a turning point in the internal armed conflict, transferring the responsibility of public order control from the National Police to the Armed Forces. The …
In 1983, the Peruvian military took control of the Huanta and La Mar provinces, leading to significant tension with local campesinos. The military's attempts to organize the population into Civil Defense Committees were met with resistance, and their repressive actions inadvertently increased support for the Communist Party of Peru - …
The CVR Report document mentions the Chapi Annex in the district of Chungui, La Mar province, department of Ayacucho during 1983. This reference appears in the context of a list of locations where events occurred during the internal armed conflict. The Chapi Annex is also mentioned for events in 1984, …
The Navy was deployed to control the provinces of Huanta and La Mar in Ayacucho, reinforcing the military presence in the department. The Huanta Stadium became a Navy base and acquired a reputation as one of the main centers where forced disappearances were practiced.
In May 1983, the PCP-SL raided the town of Huantaccasa and killed 7 people. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of violence in the provinces of Huanta, Huamanga and La Mar during 1983, a year that marks the entry of the Armed Forces into the region under …
In May 1983, members of the Peruvian Army razed the community of Matará in the district of Accocro. During the operation, they burned houses, killed, tortured and disappeared approximately 25 people. This event was part of the strategy of indiscriminate repression implemented by the Armed Forces after taking control of …
In July 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the town of Sachabamba, Chiara district, Huamanga province, killing 20 community members. This event was part of a series of massacres perpetrated by the Shining Path in the district of Chiara during 1983, which also included the murder of 10 community members in …
In September 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 10 community members in the town of Bellavista, district of Chiara, province of Huamanga. This event was part of a series of massacres perpetrated in the area during 1983, a year that saw a dramatic intensification of violence in the provinces of Huamanga, …
In September 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated five community authorities in the town of Cayramayo, Santillana district, Huanta province. This was part of the Shining Path's strategy of eliminating traditional authorities and any form of organization existing in the peasant communities. The assassination of local authorities was part of the …
In September 1983, police and Navy troops extrajudicially executed 13 community members from San Pedro de Pampay, in the district of Luricocha, province of Huanta. This event occurred in the context of the entry of the Armed Forces into the region in January 1983 and the installation of the political-military …
In November 1983, due to the impact of the war and the fear generated by subversive actions and counter-subversive operations, no municipal elections were held in any of the districts of Huanta, not even in the provincial capital. Nor were they held in the ten districts of the neighboring province …
In December 1983, a subversive group, identified as PCP-SL, entered the community of Chungui in La Mar, Peru. They conducted a series of violent incursions, including the separation and murder of community members, which forced the local population to flee into the mountains. This marked a shift from earlier indoctrination …
Most newspapers reported that the PCP-SL was announcing a two-year truce by means of white banners in the provinces of Huamanga and La Mar in Ayacucho. This announcement was made on December 21, 1983. However, the attacks both in Lima and in the interior of the country did not cease …
In 1984, the PCP-SL (Shining Path) increased their violent activities in the province of La Mar, targeting both local authorities and civilians. On May 9, they attacked the village of Paiccas, killing 21 villagers. Subsequent attacks in June resulted in the deaths of numerous other villagers, including 22 executed in …
In February 1984, members of the Marine Infantry raided the town of Carhuac, district of Santillana, province of Huanta. During this military operation, the villagers of the community were murdered. This event is part of the counter-subversive strategy implemented by the Armed Forces in the area, characterized by indiscriminate actions …
In April 1984, members of the Peruvian Army murdered 32 inhabitants of Huarapite, a town in the district of Chiara in the province of Huamanga. This event occurred in the context of the indiscriminate repression carried out by the Armed Forces in the area during 1984, a year that registered …
On April 22, 1984, the mayor of the district of Huamanguilla, Juan Contreras Marmolejo, was hanged by the Shining Path in the town's main square. Along with him, the local justice of the peace was murdered. This murder was part of the PCP-SL's strategy of attacking local authorities during 1984, …
On May 9, 1984, subversives attacked the village of Paiccas in the Province of La Mar, Ayacucho, killing 21 campesinos and injuring 45 others. This event was part of a larger wave of violence in the region, where members of the PCP-SL targeted several villages, resulting in the deaths of …
On May 9, 1984, members of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) attacked the town of Paiccas, located in the province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. This attack took place in the context of the intensification of subversive actions by the PCP-SL in the Ayacucho region …
In June 1984, members of the Peruvian Army detained, tortured and disappeared residents of the district of San Jose de Ticllas. The event resulted in 8 people disappeared and 2 released. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the area, during the …
In June 1984, soldiers murdered eight villagers in the town of Rosario, Ayna district, La Mar province. This event occurred during the period of greatest violence in the Apurimac River Valley, when the Armed Forces had taken control of the area under the Political Military Command. The event took place …
On June 24, 1984, elements of the PCP-SL (Shining Path) murdered 22 peasants in Ccaccamarca, La Mar province, Ayacucho. The murders occurred after the PCP-SL held a popular trial against the victims. This event occurred in the context of the second wave of the II Military Campaign of the PCP-SL, …
In July 1984, members of the Peruvian Army perpetrated a mass murder in the town of Pucayacu, Ayna district, La Mar province. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of military operations in the Apurimac River Valley during 1984, the year in which the Armed Forces and the …
In July 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed 40 people in Ccanis, a community located in the highlands of the city of Huanta. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the area, during the period of greatest violence in the provinces of Huanta, …
In July 1984, the PCP-SL murdered three people in a community in Marccaraccay, Santillana district, Huanta province. This event occurred in the context of an intense wave of violence in the area during 1984, a year that saw the highest number of civilian murders in the provinces of Huanta, Huamanga …
In July 1984, the director of the state school San Ramon in Huamanga was assassinated. This event occurred in the context of an intensification of violence in the provinces of Huamanga, Huanta and La Mar, where 1984 was recorded as one of the years with the highest number of civilian …
In July 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso perpetrated a massacre in Pacucro, Huamanguilla district, Huanta province, killing more than 40 people. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the armed conflict in the area, during one of the most violent years recorded in the provinces of Huanta, Huamanga …
On July 2, 1984, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso broke into the towns of Huayrapata, San Antonio de Paterini, San Martin and Quillabamba, all located in the district of San Francisco, province of La Mar. The attackers killed forty peasants who had collaborated with the forces of law and order. …
On July 27, 1984, approximately 60 members of the Shining Path (PCP-SL) attacked a church in Santa Rosa, La Mar, Peru. They surrounded the church, launched dynamite, and fired at the evangelicals inside, resulting in the deaths of six evangelicals and one Catholic, with seven others injured. The attack was …
On July 28, 1984, the mayor of the district of Santillana, Alberto la Rosa, was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. Along with him was executed Juan Contreras, who was a former mayor of the same district. This assassination was part of the Shining Path's strategy to eliminate local authorities and …
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