On December 8, 1982, a group of armed individuals dressed as military personnel entered the community of Santa Carmen de Rumichaca. They gathered the population under the pretense of rewarding those involved in the local ronda campesina. However, those identified as leaders were executed by the PCP-SL that night, leading …
On August 29, 1985, around 9 p.m., between 30 and 35 members of the Shining Path tried to enter the town of Marcas trying to take advantage of the movement of a flock of sheep to go unnoticed. They were discovered by villagers who were guarding a watchtower in the …
A peasant patrol captured a pseudo-terrorist gang of cattle rustlers in Colquemarca, in the province of Chumbivilcas. This is evidence of the complexity of the violence in the region, where subversive activities were mixed with common crime such as cattle rustling.
Laurentino Mendoza Janampa was President of the Ronda Campesina and Community Prosecutor of the community of Pucurhuay, Ticlacayán district, Pasco province. In May 1988, after a confrontation between a military patrol and a group of hikers in Pucurhuay, the villagers formed the Civil Defense Committee (CDC) and elected Laurentino Mendoza …
