On July 4, 1985, arbitrary executions took place in the Castropampa barracks, in the department of Ayacucho. The events occurred in the context of human rights violations that included sexual violence. According to testimony gathered by the CVR, before the executions, the commandos first executed the men to prevent them …
On July 4, 1985, a brutal massacre occurred at the Cuartel de Castropampa in Ayacucho, Peru. Women were separated from men, tortured, and subjected to sexual violence by soldiers. Sixty-nine people were executed, and the bodies of the victims, including women who had been raped, were discovered later.
On August 4, 1985, Dionicia Villaroel Villanueva was arrested by Army troops at the home of Víctor Curo Pariona in Huanta. The arrest was related to the previous arrest of her husband Marino Suárez Huamaní, who had been accused of participating in subversive meetings. The soldiers asked her about a …
On November 24, 1988, journalists Hugo Bustíos Saavedra and Eduardo Yeny Rojas went to Erapata to investigate the murder of Primitiva Jorge Ayala and her son Guillermo Sulca Jorge by the Shining Path. They were ambushed by individuals in civilian clothes with white polo shirts who shot at them. Bustíos …
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