The assault on the High Security Prison (CRAS) of Huamanga took place, from where 304 inmates managed to escape, of which approximately 70 were hikers. The attackers spread throughout the city, dispersing and pinning down the police with gunfire while they subdued the prison guards. The Army troops did not …
The first 450 Army reinforcements were sent to Ayacucho and the three battalions that had been barracked were deployed. On December 29, the entry of the Armed Forces in the fight against subversion was made official. The Marine Infantry also entered. With the establishment of the Political Military Command (CPM), …
On December 29, 1982, the government extended the state of emergency and entrusted the control of internal order to the Armed Forces. In January 1983, the Political Military Command was established in Ayacucho. The province of Huanta remained under the control of the Navy until part of 1985, when the …
Around 2,000 Army troops went into action in the emergency zone. The government ordered the intervention of the Armed Forces in the anti-subversive struggle under the command of General Clemente Noel Moral. The national security subzone E was reorganized, covering 5 provinces of Ayacucho and all of Huancavelica, extending the …
In 1983, the Army installed a counter-subversive base in the town of Millpo, in the highlands of the district of Paucarbamba, province of Churcampa. From this base, military patrols would go out to the communities and towns of Paucarbamba, detaining people who were then interrogated at the base. Some detainees, …
On January 21, 1983, the Army decreed a curfew in the towns of Campo Armiño, Colcabamba and Quichuas, where the Mantaro dam is located. This measure was taken in anticipation of an incursion by PCP-SL forces against the strategic installations of the hydroelectric plant. The curfew was part of the …
On the third day after the Sacsamarca rebellion, members of the Army arrived in Sancos aboard two helicopters. The population that had gathered in the square to attend a popular trial decided to escape. The military fired indiscriminately, killing 14 people, among them nine subversives and two young ladies who …
On March 22, 1983, shortly after the installation of the Political Military Command in Huancavelica, an Army patrol ambushed a contingent of 25 subversives of the PCP-SL in Jala, district of Vilca. In the confrontation 24 Shining Path members were killed. This military action temporarily contained the expansion of subversive …
On May 5, 1983, there was a confrontation between Shining Path elements and combined forces (Army and Police) in the town of Paras, which resulted in 6 victims among the security forces and 10 among the subversives. On the same date, the subversives murdered six community members in the town …
At 9:00 a.m., the Army arrived and called the population to form up in the plaza. The soldiers forced the people to form up in separate lines of women and men. A hooded soldier began to point out people who should get out of the line. They selected 17 people, …
On October 15, 1983, militants of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a harassment attack against the Churcampa police post. This attack took place in the context of a series of subversive actions aimed at destroying the existing system of authorities and harassing police posts in the region. The action was …
In 1984, residents of Paltamarca captured an alleged subversive and killed him in Tuccuccasa, Pachamarca district. This event occurred in the context of the organization of counter-subversive peasant patrols promoted by the Army in the area. The event took place shortly after the military arrested and executed five people suspected …
In 1984, a State of Emergency was declared and the army entered the upper Huallaga jungle. This measure was taken in the context of growing violence related to drug trafficking and the presence of subversive groups. The militarization of the area marked a change in the State's security strategy, although …
On January 7, 1984, an Army patrol was ambushed by PCP-SL militants in the district of Pampas, province of Tayacaja. The attack resulted in the death of a soldier. This event occurred in the context of the first semester of 1984, when the combined forces of the Army and the …
Remigio Paucar Surichaqui was extrajudicially executed by a soldier from the Manta Military Base on March 22, 1984. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of counter-subversive actions in the rural area of Huancavelica, where the Army was searching for subversive 'barracks'. The military strategy was based on …
The province of Daniel Alcides Carrión was declared an emergency and passed under military control. Little by little, the army reestablished order and authorities through the establishment of counter-subversive bases. This provoked the withdrawal of the PCP-SL, without major confrontations.
Marcos de La Cruz Quispe, a rondero from the district of Acobambilla, was murdered by PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants on November 11, 1984. This murder occurred two days after the PCP-SL executed a teacher, the municipal agent and the district governor of Acobambilla, who were also accused of being 'informers'. The …
On November 20, 1984, military personnel detained five people suspected of being subversives in the district of Pachamarca. These people were extrajudicially executed and buried in Mamapancha. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of counter-subversive actions in the area, where the military of the Counter-subversive Base of …
After a state of emergency was decreed in the province of Daniel Alcides Carrion in December 1984, the Army established a military base in the district of Yanahuanca in mid-December. In the last days of December 1984, another counter-subversive base was installed in Chinche Tingo. The military presence and the …
In the last days of December 1984, a counter-subversive Army base was installed in Chinche Tingo. This installation followed the decree of a state of emergency in the province of Daniel Alcides Carrión in December 1984, when the Army first established a military base in the district of Yanahuanca in …
In December 1984, a state of emergency was declared in the province of Daniel Alcides Carrion due to the inability of the police response to stop the dizzying increase in the number of attacks and victims, as well as the territorial expansion of the PCP-SL forces. After the state of …
On May 10, 1985, the Belaunde government declared a state of emergency in the province of Pasco. This decision was precipitated by the assassination of Professor Luis Alberto Aguilar Cajahuamán, APRA militant and professor at the Daniel Alcides Carrión National University, who had been elected Deputy in the April 14, …
In July 1985, the Marine Corps withdrew from Ayacucho and was replaced by the Army, which applied a more selective repression and sought a certain rapprochement with the population. The Marines, known locally as 'the navy', had been under the command of Commander Vega Llona since January 1983 in Huanta. …
In July 1985, the Marine Corps withdraws from the Apurimac River Valley and is replaced by the Army. This withdrawal occurs after the DECAS (Defensa Civil Contrasubversiva) and the army were on the offensive until mid-1985, while the PCP-SL was in retreat. The change of forces occurred at the height …
On November 21, 1985, hikers set fire to 26 houses in Incahuasi. Among the dead were peasants Melquiades Ccoyao, Ladislao Mendoza and two unidentified people. The operation was carried out by the ronderos with the support of Army soldiers in the Accobamba area. During the operation they captured another 20 …
The Shining Path killed babies and small children whose cries could give away the location of their camps to the army. Shining Path commanders warned women to make sure their children did not cry, because the military could easily locate them. When a child cried a lot, generally because of …
Between February and April 1986, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a series of assassinations in various communities in the province of Aymaraes. These violent actions marked the first continuous violent actions of the PCP-SL in the Apurimac region. In the following months until July, the attacks and confrontations extended to …
On June 18, 1986, there was a Shining Path riot in the Lurigancho, El Frontón and Santa Bárbara prisons with hostage taking. The Council of Ministers decided to reestablish order with maximum energy, entrusting the task to the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. The repression resulted in the death …
The PCP-SL had its first confrontation with the army in Soccos, Aymaraes province. This confrontation marked the beginning of the military presence in the area and the escalation of violence in Apurímac.
On July 11, 1986, the Shining Path PCP launched its first attack on a police post in Chucapuente, Aymaraes province. This attack took place in the context of an escalation of violence in the area, where days before, on July 7, the PCP-SL had had its first confrontation with the …
The MRTA cut the truce granted to Garcia and opened a guerrilla front in the department of San Martin with great publicity, barely three months after the attempt to nationalize the banks. The television coverage given to the MRTA campaign was enormous. The guerrilla chief Victor Polay became a well-known …
In March 1987, the Shining Path PCP took the town of Tocache as part of its territorial control strategy in the Huallaga basin. This action took place in the context of subversive domination of the area, where the PCP-SL had established open Popular Committees and maintained a complex relationship with …
A group of hikers shot at a restaurant near the headquarters of the Armored Division in Rimac, specifically at the cebicheria 'El Piano'. The attack resulted in the death of two army officers and five civilians. This attack was part of the PCP-SL strategy of carrying out violent actions in …
On July 17, 1987, the combined forces of the police, Army and Air Force carried out an impressive operation to recapture the town of Tocache, which had been taken by the Shining Path PCP. Law enforcement arrived in helicopters in a coordinated operation. This action came after the PCP-SL had …
On August 29, 1987, a detachment of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Civil Guard headquarters and an army barracks in the very center of the city of Cuzco. This attack demonstrated the confidence in their forces that the PCP-SL had at the time. The attack was part of a series …
The command of the Civil Guard and the army barracks in the city of Cuzco were attacked by the PCP-SL. This attack on military installations in the departmental capital is evidence of the audacity and operational capacity of the subversive group in urban areas.
On September 12, 1987, a Shining Path column of the PCP-SL successively raided the district capitals of Cochas and Comas, in the Tulumayo basin. During these incursions, the Shining Pathists threatened the local authorities and demanded their resignation, distributing a communiqué stating that the Communist Party of Peru had been …
The Pacasmayo clash took place where the army suffered several casualties, but the MRTA lost four comrades. This confrontation occurred during the deconcentration of the subversive forces after the Tupac Amaru Liberator campaign.
Faced with the violence that broke out in the department of Ucayali, the Catholic Church, through the Vicariate of Pucallpa, established in 1988 the Vicariate's Human Rights Office based in Pucallpa. This Office had two priority areas of attention: the area of complaints of human rights violations, with legal advice …
On January 7, 1988, an Army sergeant was murdered in the city of Huancayo. This assassination was part of a series of "selective annihilations" that increased since January 14, 1987, when a PCP-SL contingent assassinated an Army commander in the same city. Selective assassinations against members of law enforcement, public …
In April 1988, the Shining Path PCP attacked the town of Pichiwilca, which was the base of the Self-Defense Committees of the Apurimac River Valley. The attack was supported by a large contingent of peasants from the local subversive force. The villagers of Pichiwilca managed to alert the ronderos of …
On June 13, 1988, the province of Cotabambas was declared in a state of emergency, becoming the first province in the southern Andean region to receive this declaration. This measure was intended to counteract the control that the Shining Path PCP had managed to establish in the area through the …
In September 1988, PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants ambushed an army patrol in the town of Chonta, in Laria, Huancavelica province. The attack resulted in the death of one officer and six soldiers, while fourteen other military personnel were wounded. This ambush was part of the 1988 Shining Path offensive, when the …
A university student was arrested in the district of Ñaña on September 17, 1988. She was subsequently transferred to DINCOTE (Dirección Nacional contra el Terrorismo) where she was tortured and raped. The victim fainted repeatedly during the abuses. The perpetrators threatened to disappear her or take her to the Army, …
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 …
By the end of 1989, practically all the northern provinces of Ayacucho were organized in counter-subversive peasant patrols. This organization contrasted with the towns in the central provinces (Cangallo, Vilcashuaman, Victor Fajardo), which were more reluctant, possibly because they had often been bases of support for the Shining Path. In …
During 1989, Peruvian law enforcement forces suffered 149 fatal casualties in the fight against armed subversion, representing 8.9% of the total number of law enforcement casualties during the entire conflict. Of these casualties, 101 corresponded to the Armed Forces (mainly the Army) and 48 to the Police Forces. This year …
Faced with the presence of PCP-SL and drug trafficking in the province of Padre Abad, in 1989 the Army created a military base in Aguaytia, where the "Counter-Subversive Battalion 28" was established from the "Los Laureles" base in Tingo Maria. This action was framed in the context of the declaration …
Army personnel entered the community of Tamburqui and house by house removed the villagers, gathering them in the plaza. They forced the affiant and her neighbor to bring blankets and hides for the soldiers. When they returned to the plaza, the Chief of the soldiers told them 'Ah, you still …
At the end of 1989, an MRTA column assassinated three Asháninka leaders in the province of Oxapampa. Among the victims was Alejandro Calderón, pinkátzari (great chief) and president of ANAP (Apatyawaka Nampitsi Asháninka), the federation that groups 52 native communities of the Pichis River and tributaries. The Asháninka reacted quickly …
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