Murder of twenty villagers in Mutuycocha
In July 1989, the Shining Path PCP raided the town of Mutuycocha, in the district of Iguaín, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. During this incursion, twenty villagers were killed. This attack took place in the context of a second wave of sustained confrontations between the PCP-SL and the peasant patrols in …