On May 26, 1982, a group of approximately 200 members of the Shining Path (PCP-SL), led by an individual known as 'René', entered the community of Chalcos in the Lucanas province of Ayacucho, Peru. They accused a local teacher and her partner, an engineer, of being informants and subsequently murdered …
On May 26, 1982, a group of approximately 200 hikers led by "René" and possibly coming from Vilcashuaman, entered Chalcos. Under the charge of snitching, they murdered a teacher and her boyfriend, a CORFA-Ayacucho engineer. This event occurred in the Districts of Chilcayoc, Chalcos and Belen, adjacent to Andahuaylas and …
The terrorists came at night to ask for support and took the students from the schools. Among them were two older students, 10 and 9 years old. A witness wonders how they were training these children with weapons. The entry into the schools and the recruitment of students was repeated …
At the end of October 1983, a Shining Path column entered the town of Morcolla and captured four people, including a teacher and a Puno merchant. They were taken to the town square and subjected to a "people's trial", accused of being "sheriffs and lackeys of the government". They were …
On January 24, 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a new "people's trial" in the town of Morcolla, Lucanas province. During this event, four villagers were killed under the accusation of "snitching", that is, of being informers for the forces of law and order. This was the second popular trial …
In February 1984, the Peruvian army installed a military base in Chipao, a district in the province of Lucanas. This installation was motivated by the fact that the PCP-SL had managed to establish a support base in this town. From this military base, the army would exercise control over the …
On June 18, 1984, a massacre occurred in Soras, province of Lucanas, department of Ayacucho. The event is mentioned in the context of a series of violent actions that took place in June 1984. Days earlier, on June 9, there was another incident where people were taken from their homes …
After the Shining Path attack of July 16, 1984 in Negro Mayo, where PCP-SL militants disguised as soldiers hijacked a bus and killed 30 people, initiating a campaign that left more than 100 dead in several communities, the community of Chaupihuasi managed to arrest four members of the PCP-SL. Those …
On July 27, 1984, at approximately four o'clock in the afternoon, Jesús Manuel Oropeza Chonta, a 33-year-old peasant leader, Secretary of Peasant Communities of the National Agrarian Confederation and Vice-President of the Agrarian League 'María Parado de Bellido' of Lucanas, was in the main square of Puquio when two members …
On July 28, 1984, a column of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the town of Morcolla, in the province of Lucanas, Ayacucho. This was the bloodiest of the three Shining Path incursions recorded in Morcolla during 1983-1984. The Shining Path column killed 36 people during this raid. In addition to the …
In 1989, a group of PCP-Sendero Luminoso subversives dressed as military personnel surprised the population of Huaycahuacho and assassinated Rogelio Jurado, who was a community leader. The subversives disguised themselves as military personnel to deceive the population and be able to carry out their objective. This selective assassination was part …
In mid-June 1991, the army forced the formation of peasant patrols in the area of Huaycahuacho, in the province of Lucanas. This forced formation of self-defense committees was part of the army's counter-subversive strategy in the region. As happened in other communities organized in CAD's in previous years, that same …
In mid-June 1991, the army forced the formation of peasant patrols in the area of Huaycahuacho, in the province of Lucanas. As had happened so many times in previous years in various communities organized in Self-Defense Committees (CAD's), that same month members of the PCP-SL entered Huaycahuacho and assassinated six …
In September 2002, a witness reported a massacre that took place in Puquio, located in the Lucanas province of Ayacucho, Peru. The testimony highlights the severe violence and the impact on the local community. This event is part of a larger pattern of violence and human rights abuses in the …
Testimony collected in Lima during September 2002 as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigations. The affiant witnessed the massacre that took place in Puquio, Lucanas province, Ayacucho department. This testimony is part of the documentation on the psychological and emotional impacts of political violence in Peru, specifically related …
The affiant is a witness to the massacre in Puquio, Lucanas, Ayacucho. The event was documented in a testimony collected in Lima in September 2002. No specific details about the circumstances of the massacre, the number of victims or the perpetrators are provided in the available excerpt from the report.
