In the midst of an escalation of violence unleashed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, which included the assassination of community president Alejandro Huamán in late 1982, Uchuraccay villagers killed five members of the PCP-SL in mid-January 1983. This event was part of a broader inter-communal rebellion in the Huanta highlands, where …
On approximately January 22, 1983, five members of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path were killed in the community of Uchuraccay. According to testimonies, these five Shining Path members were not carrying weapons, only two of them were carrying empty Gloria milk jars. This event occurred in a …
On January 23, 1983, the guide Juan Argumedo was captured 5 kilometers from Uchuraccay, at the point called Yuracyacu. He was taken to the community of Uchuraccay for interrogation. Three days later, on January 26, Juan Argumedo García was murdered together with eight journalists and the community member Severino Huáscar …
On January 26, 1983, eight journalists were massacred in the community of Uchuraccay. This event was paradigmatic because it marked the moment when many sectors of the country, which had been practically indifferent to the tragedy that had been occurring since May 1980, began to pay attention to the violence …
The day after the capture of fourteen Iquichan peasants suspected of belonging to or supporting the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, the villagers of Uchuraccay gathered in the square to judge the prisoners. The trial was carried out by taking the detainees one by one to the square to testify before the community. …
On January 28, 1983, the massacre of eight journalists that had occurred two days earlier in Uchuraccay was confirmed. The news was disseminated nationally and internationally, generating great commotion. On January 30, in a plane chartered by the newspaper La República, a large group of journalists, parliamentarians and relatives of …
On Sunday, January 30, 1983, a large group of national and foreign reporters, parliamentarians, church members and relatives of the murdered journalists arrived in Ayacucho in a plane chartered by the newspaper La República to exhume the bodies. The images of the lynched bodies were transmitted on television, causing a …
On Sunday, January 30, 1983, a large group of national and foreign reporters, parliamentarians, ecclesiastics and relatives of the murdered journalists arrived in Ayacucho in a plane chartered by the newspaper La Republica. That same day the bodies of the eight journalists murdered on January 26 in Uchuraccay were exhumed. …
On February 11, 1983, the second judicial proceeding was carried out in Uchuraccay, consisting of the exhumation of the body of Juan Argumedo García. This procedure took place on the same day that Mario Vargas Llosa was meeting with the peasants of Uchuraccay as part of the Investigation Commission's investigations. …
During the oral trial of the Uchuraccay trial that took place between May and December 1986, the body of Juan Argumedo was found. Juan Argumedo García had been captured on January 23, 1983, 5 kilometers from Uchuraccay, at the point called Yuracyacu, and taken to the community for interrogation. Argumedo …