Place

Aranhuay

Appears in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru

Timeline Events 2

  • Massacre in the community of Aranhuay

    A large group of PCP-SL members entered the community of Aranhuay using military fatigues as a ruse. They summoned the villagers to an assembly in the main square. Once assembled, they revealed their identity, divided the villagers into groups, forced them to perform strenuous physical exercises, beat and kicked them …

    Comunidad de Aranhuay, distrito de Santillana, provincia de Huanta, Ayacucho, Perú Informe CVR, páginas 3528-3529
    #masacre #sendero-luminoso #aranhuay #huanta #ayacucho #perfidia #comité-autodefensa

  • Massacre in Aranhuay

    On April 22, 1988, members of the Shining Path (PCP-SL) carried out a brutal massacre in the village of Aranhuay, Peru. They gathered villagers in the main square, divided them into groups, and subjected them to physical abuse before executing at least twenty-one individuals. The attack was characterized by extreme …

    Aranhuay, Peru página 297
    #massacre #Shining Path #aranhuay #Peru #human rights #terrorism #1988

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