The Shining Path perpetrated a massacre of almost all the inhabitants of the village of Chaupihuasi. Peasants were killed without distinction of age, including 14 adult peasants, 10 children and older pupils of 7 and 8 years old who died together with their teacher at the school. Only very young …
Approximately 500 community members from the Soras, San Pedro de Larcay and Paico districts, including men and women, organized a counter-offensive against PCP-SL members in the Soras area, reaching as far as Querobamba and Chipao. This action was a response to the Shining Path attacks that had caused more than …
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 16, 1984, in Negro Mayo, a group of PCP-SL militants disguised as soldiers hijacked a bus from the 'Cabanino' company on its way to Soras, killing 30 people. This massacre was part of a wider campaign of violence, as the same Shining Path column in the following days …
On July 16, 1984, militants of the PCP-SL, disguised as military personnel, hijacked a bus in Negro Mayo, killing 30 people. In the following days, the same group continued their attacks, resulting in the deaths of 40 people in Chaupihuasi, 30 more in Doce Corral, and finally 18 in Soras. …