Towards the end of 1989, in the process of regrouping and reorganizing their reduced forces after the Molinos battle, a group of MRTA guerrillas were transporting weapons for the jungle detachment. During the transport, the pickup truck in which they were traveling fell into the Pichanaki River. All the occupants …
Assassination of retired General Enrique López Albújar in Lima, perpetrated by the MRTA in retaliation for the Molinos massacre. This was a condemnable assassination that constituted the organization's response to the execution of surrendered guerrillas.
In 1989, there was an armed confrontation between the Peruvian Army and the MRTA in the district of Molinos, province of Jauja. This combat resulted in the death of 6 military personnel and 58 guerrillas, although the MRTA only claimed responsibility for 42 of its dead. This confrontation was the …
Victor Polay, leader of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), was captured in Huancayo on January 31, 1989. This capture represented a serious setback for the MRTA, whose organizational apparatus was already resentful. After this event, the MRTA continued to operate in the central jungle but with diminished capacity. Polay's …
In March 1989, around 30 armed MRTA men attacked the Pichanaki police post in Chanchamayo province. This attack was part of the MRTA's operations in the central jungle during its period of expansion in the area. A few days after this attack, the subversives marched into the Junin highlands to …
The MRTA tried to take the city of Tarma in an operation that ended in the Molinos massacre. The Army's review of surrendered guerrillas showed the MRTA that for the forces of order there were no good and bad subversives. The operation had been planned to respond to the strong …
In April 1989, approximately 80 members of the MRTA detachment were moving towards the Junin highlands with the intention of taking Tarma, when they encountered Army forces in the district of Molinos, Jauja province, and engaged in combat. The confrontation resulted in the death of 62 people identified as MRTA …
On Thursday, April 20, 1989, at 7:30 p.m., after several explosions and a subsequent blackout, a column of the PCP-SL took the main square of Acolla. The Shining Path guerrillas captured the APRA mayor Víctor Mayta Galarza and after a popular trial they assassinated him with two bullets to the …
On 28 April 1989, a confrontation occurred between the Peruvian Army and a column of MRTA subversives in the district of Molinos, Jauja. The MRTA forces, which were attempting to join another column to take the city of Tarma, were nearly annihilated by the army. This defeat halted the MRTA's …
A column of thirty heavily armed MRTA subversives attacked the Pichanaki police post. After the attack, the column began to move towards the highlands to join up with another column coming down from Tulumayo, in the highlands of Junin, with the objective of jointly taking the city of Tarma. However, …
On April 28, 1989, an MRTA detachment traveling in two trucks toward Tarma to take the city was discovered by a Peruvian Army patrol in the Molinos district, eight kilometers east of Jauja. An armed confrontation ensued resulting in the death of 58 MRTA members, six members of the Peruvian …
On April 28, 1989, PCP-SL militants committed the murder of three university students on the campus of the National University of Central Peru in Huancayo. This event occurred in a context where the PCP-SL had increased its intense agitation and armed propaganda work at the university, taking advantage of the …
On April 28, 1989, an armed confrontation took place between an Army patrol and a detachment of MRTA militants in the district of Molinos, province of Jauja. The subversive group was on its way to take the city of Tarma when it was intercepted by military forces. This event was …
An MRTA guerrilla column was annihilated in Molinos, Jauja, in a confrontation with the Peruvian Army. This was a devastating blow for the MRTA that disarticulated its organizational work and created political confusion among its militants. The repercussions for the MRTA's work at the university were serious, forcing them to …
On April 28, 1989, two MRTA columns encountered Peruvian Army forces in the district of Molinos (Jauja) and were practically annihilated in combat. A column of thirty heavily armed subversives operating in the area of Satipo and Chanchamayo had begun a movement towards the highlands to unite with another column …
On April 28, 1989, a violent confrontation occurred between the MRTA (Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) and the Peruvian Army's special forces in Molinos, Jauja, resulting in the death of 58 MRTA members and six soldiers. The clash severely weakened the MRTA's influence in the Central region, leading to the loss …
On April 29, 1989, the six soldiers of the Peruvian Army killed in the Molinos confrontation the day before were buried. The remains of infantry lieutenant Jhonny Morales Rodriguez, sergeant Yuri Portocarrero and corporal Ulises Rivera Flores were buried in the "El Angel" cemetery. The cortege was presided over by …
On Sunday, April 30, 1989, some relatives were allowed to enter the Olavegoya Hospital in Jauja to examine the bodies of the victims of the Molinos confrontation that took place on April 28. The relatives found that their countrymen were totally disfigured, while the bodies identified as terrorists showed no …
On May 1, 1989, the bodies of the MRTA militants killed in the Molinos confrontation on April 28 were buried in the Jauja General Cemetery. The 55 corpses arrived at 11:00 a.m. on board several dump trucks. During the two previous days, personnel from the Olavegoya hospital and members of …
In May 1989, an armed confrontation took place between the Peruvian Army and members of the MRTA in the district of Molinos, province of Jauja. The confrontation resulted in the death of 6 military personnel and 58 guerrillas, although the MRTA only claimed responsibility for 42 of its dead. This …
On May 1, 1989, 55 bodies of individuals identified as members of the MRTA, a subversive group, were buried in a mass grave at the General Cemetery of Jauja. These individuals were killed during an armed confrontation with the Peruvian Army on April 28, 1989, in the district of Molinos, …
In response to what happened in Molinos, a subversive commando exploded a car bomb in the San Martin barracks, located in the district of Miraflores.
An emerretista commando placed a car bomb in the Jauja barracks as part of the retaliatory actions for what happened in Molinos.
On December 17, 1989, near Puerto Victoria in the district of Puerto Bermudez, in territory of the Yanesha ethnic group, an Army patrol located and attacked an MRTA camp. According to the official report, 43 subversives and one soldier were killed. This attack was part of a series of military …
On April 27, 1990, approximately sixty MRTA members attacked the police post in the district of Chupaca, located 12 kilometers away. This was the last major MRTA action in the Mantaro Valley. The attack lasted two hours, after which the attackers withdrew, suffering two casualties. This action took place a …
The MRTA, having reconstituted itself after its defeat at Molinos in 1989, decided to carry out large-scale actions. On December 1, 1991, it attempted to take the town of Pichanaki but failed. This failure was followed by other setbacks for the organization in the area. In January 1992, one of …
In January 1992, one of the MRTA camps was located in the district of Mazamari and was destroyed by the Peruvian Army. Nine subversives were killed in the operation. This event occurred in the context of the reconstitution of the MRTA after its defeat in Molinos in 1989 and after …
On May 1, 1992, around 100 MRTA subversives attacked and destroyed the counter-subversive base of Villa Rica in Oxapampa. This attack was carried out in the context of the anniversary of their defeat in Molinos and represented a major action by the MRTA after its reconstitution. The success of this …
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