The year 1984 was the year with the highest death toll of the entire internal armed conflict. More than 3,000 people died, of which more than 95% were Quechua speakers. This period coincided with the administration of General Adrián Huamán Centeno as Political and Military Chief of Ayacucho and with …
In January 1984, General Adrián Huamán Centeno replaced General Roberto Clemente Noel Moral as Political and Military Chief of Ayacucho. Huamán, born in Ayacucho and a Quechua speaker, implemented a peculiar style that included political and economic measures to win over the population. He sought to attack subversion at its …
In 1984, General Adrián Huamán Centeno took over as the head of the military command in Ayacucho, a region heavily affected by the conflict with the PCP-SL. Despite efforts to gain local support through economic measures, his tenure saw a significant increase in extrajudicial executions and disappearances. Huamán's strategy included …
After the Armed Forces took control of the Ayacucho department on December 29, 1982, the conflict intensified, reaching its peak in 1984. This year saw the highest number of deaths in the entire armed conflict, with over 3,000 people killed, more than 95% of whom were Quechua speakers. In January …
In February 1984, General Huamán denied the recently elected mayor of Ayacucho, Leonor Zamora, the presence of the indigenous population in the open town meeting organized for that month. This decision was part of his strategy of 'isolation' that sought to keep the indigenous population away from possible subversive influences, …
In November 2001, Heriberto Benitez Rivas, President of the Human Rights Commission of the Congress, called for an investigation into a mass grave in Putis, Ayacucho. This followed a report in Diario La República alleging the existence of a grave containing the remains of a hundred villagers. The investigation targeted …
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