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 …
The Marines, called 'the navy' by the local population, took control of Huanta. One of the first measures the Navy applied in Huanta was to group the peasants into villages and organize them into Civil Defense Committees, in the style of the 'strategic villages' organized by the US Army in …
The Navy was deployed to control the provinces of Huanta and La Mar in Ayacucho, reinforcing the military presence in the department. The Huanta Stadium became a Navy base and acquired a reputation as one of the main centers where forced disappearances were practiced.
In September 1983, police and Navy troops extrajudicially executed 13 community members from San Pedro de Pampay, in the district of Luricocha, province of Huanta. This event occurred in the context of the entry of the Armed Forces into the region in January 1983 and the installation of the political-military …
Following the withdrawal of the marines from Pampacancha, a Shining Path incursion attacked the strategic village that concentrated people from the communities of Huanccacancha, Sacsahuillca, Mutuypata, Culluchaca and Yanasraccay. The attack resulted in 40 dead. The PCP-SL managed to infiltrate, divide and defeat the self-defense groups that had been organized …
The year 1984 was the year with the highest death toll of the entire internal armed conflict. More than 3,000 people died, of which more than 95% were Quechua speakers. This period coincided with the administration of General Adrián Huamán Centeno as Political and Military Chief of Ayacucho and with …
During 1984, in the context of increasing violence and terror in Ayacucho, the first mass graves were discovered in Huamanguilla and Pucayacu. These findings showed the magnitude of the human rights violations committed during the period when the Navy was operating in the area and the Self-Defense Committees had been …
Between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. on August 1, 1984, a Navy patrol violently broke into the Callqui Evangelical Presbyterian Church where 27 people, including 10 minors, were worshiping. The troops entered shooting in the air, formed two lines with guns pointed at them and selected six adult males. They took …
Around August 16, 1984, members of the Navy, who were stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, transferred fifty people who were detained there to the town of Pucayacu. On August 22 a mass grave was found in Pucayacu with fifty unrecognizable corpses, as they had apparently been burned with …
On August 22, 1984, a mass grave was found in Pucayacu with fifty unrecognizable corpses, as they had apparently been burned with acid. Around August 16, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of …
On July 7, 1985, mass graves were found in the community of Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. Around August 16, 1984, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of Pucayacu. On August 22, 1984, …
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 …
On April 13, 1988, a column of forty heavily armed PCP-Sendero Luminoso members escorted by hundreds of peasants from the local force attacked Pichiwillca, the main DECAS base in the Apurimac River Valley. With the help of the ronderos of Anchihuay who immediately came to the defense of Pichiwillca, and …
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 …
On June 1, 1989, the Peruvian State declared Ucayali an emergency zone and installed a Political-Military Command led by the Navy. This measure was taken in response to the problems generated by the hyperinflation of 1989, which prevented the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA from paying peasants for their production, …
On June 1, 1989, the Peruvian State declared Ucayali an emergency zone, installing a Political-Military Command led by the Navy. This measure was taken in response to the problems generated by the hyperinflation of 1989, which prevented the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA from paying peasants, causing regional strikes organized …
On July 20, 1989, the Supreme Council of Military Justice definitively dismissed the process initiated by the Navy regarding the events at El Frontón prison, without finding criminal responsibility in the members of the Navy who participated in the debellation of the riot of June 1986.
The MRTA raided the city of Yurimaguas with 95 armed men who attacked the Navy base and the police post in two groups, forcing the few troops to surrender and freeing prisoners in the local jail. While one group held a rally, another group opened the doors of the commercial …
In 1991, due to the gradual change in the Navy's counter-subversive strategy, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso began to retreat to some areas along the Ucayali River and lost control of the villages along the Federico Basadre Highway (CFB). This change of strategy implied that the Navy stopped carrying out bloody operations …
The Regional Directorate (DR) of the Eastern Front of the MRTA continued its operations in Ucayali during 1991, although with limited political and military relevance after the events of February 9, 1989, which disarticulated the peasant, popular and political movements in the region. The organization's work remained active until 1991, …
President Alberto Fujimori gave a speech on Navy Day where he spoke about the government's new anti-subversive policy. In his speech, he severely questioned what he called "the terrorists [sic] infiltrated in pseudo humanitarian and human rights organizations". This speech came days after the President described human rights organizations as …
On April 2, 1995, members of the Navy entered the town of San Alejandro as part of Operation Shark IV. Between 5:30 and 6 in the morning they arrived at the Pomatanta family's home looking for 17-year-old Indalecio. After interrogating and brutally beating him and asking him for weapons, they …
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