On August 18, 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso simultaneously attacked the Civil Guard posts of Orurillo and Umachiri, located in the province of Melgar, department of Puno. This attack was part of the initial actions of the Shining Path in the department of Puno during the period 1980-1983. The attack on …
On August 18, 1982, members of the PCP-SL simultaneously attacked the Civil Guard posts of Orurillo and Umachiri, in the province of Melgar, department of Puno. The confrontations lasted for five hours. As a result of these attacks, seven policemen were killed. After the attack, the Minister of the Interior, …
On August 18, 1982, members of the PCP-SL attacked the Civil Guard posts of Orurillo and Umachiri, in the province of Melgar, Puno. After five hours of confrontations, seven policemen were killed on August 22. After the attack, the Minister of Interior, General FAP (r) Jose Gagliardi Schiaffino, and the …
On January 29, 1985, approximately 40 people attacked the Civil Guard post in Orurillo, province of Melgar, department of Puno. This attack was part of the actions of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the Puno region during the period of expanding violence. The attack on Orurillo took place in the context …
The affiant's husband was an authority in Puno and was killed by PCP-SL. Her children knelt down asking not to kill their parents, but the Senderistas said they were going to kill all the children of those they had killed. The affiant had a tent on the second floor and …
In 1989, in the district of Orurillo, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho, a woman reported that members of the PCP-SL executed her husband and subsequently raped her as a form of punishment and reprisal. The incident highlights the use of sexual violence by the PCP-SL as a method …
On the night of December 3, 1989, a PCP-SL column entered Orurillo and assassinated eight people: IU mayor-elect Tomás Quispesayhua (secretary general of the district peasant federation), Godofredo Marrón (secretary general of SUTEP), Pedro Pablo Tito Limache (primary school teacher), Julio Céspedes (director of the Agricultural College), Víctor Quispesayhua (governor), …
In September 1990, the most dramatic event of the wave of official violence took place: in the community of Chillutira, a DOES raid culminated in the disappearance of several community leaders who were later found dead, among them Dionisio Cantani Hancco, secretary general of the Orurillo district federation. The first …
A column of the PCP-SL raids the district of Orurillo, where they burn the municipal building and several commercial establishments. Then they assassinate four peasant leaders of the Quisuni Cooperative, in Melgar, Puno. This attack is part of Sendero's campaign against peasant leaders.
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