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The peasant patrols of northern Peru formed an increasingly solid movement over fifteen years. Emerging from the people to combat the problem of cattle rustling, the first patrol was organized …
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A peasant patrol captured a pseudo-terrorist gang of cattle rustlers in Colquemarca, in the province of Chumbivilcas. This is evidence of the complexity of the violence in the region, where subversive activities were mixed with common crime such as cattle rustling.
On September 22, 1982, a group of peasants from Chuschi were killed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. These peasants had been accused of abigeos (cattle rustling). This event was part of a series of selective assassinations that the PCP-SL carried out during 1982 against authorities, villagers and people accused of various …