On 19 July 1984, Santiago Felipe Loayza Cahuana, a school principal in Huamanguilla, was detained by the Peruvian Police and the Marine Infantry while traveling to Huamanga. The arrest occurred after his vehicle was intercepted, and he was forcibly removed. This event was part of a broader pattern of detentions …
In August 1984, a series of violent events occurred in Huanta, Ayacucho, Peru, during the internal armed conflict. On August 1, six young members of the Presbyterian Evangelical Church were murdered in Callqui. The following day, journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca was abducted and disappeared from the Marine Infantry base in …
On 13 August 1984, a witness observed the burial of bodies in Pucayacu by personnel from the Peruvian Navy's Marine Infantry. The victims were reportedly detained, tortured, and executed arbitrarily. The incident involved the participation of the Marine Infantry Detachment from Huanta and police officers from the Luricocha police station.