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Various scholars and researchers of political violence point out that Civil Self-Defense organizations emerged to confront terrorism in the early 1980s, becoming one of the key factors in the fight …
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The affiant recounts the disappearance of his nephew in Acco, Tambo district, La Mar province, Ayacucho department. This testimony was collected in November 2002 in Ayacucho. The case is part of the numerous events of forced disappearance that occurred in the area during the internal armed conflict. The disappearance left …
The declarant gave testimony before the CVR narrating the disappearance of his nephew in the locality of Acco, Tambo District, La Mar Province, Ayacucho. The testimony was collected in November 2002 in Ayacucho. This case is part of the numerous testimonies documented by the TRC on forced disappearances that occurred …
The affiant witnessed murders in the community of Huayau, located in the district of Tambo, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. The facts were narrated in a testimony collected in November 2002. The testimony is part of the documented statements on political violence in the Ayacucho region during the …
Testimony collected in Ayacucho in November 2002, identified with code 201920. The declarant was a direct witness of murders that occurred in the community of Huayau, located in the district of Tambo, province of La Mar, department of Ayacucho. This testimony is part of the documentation compiled by the CVR …
Between 1990 and early 1992, the Peruvian Army carried out several military operations in the Tambo and Ene basins, attacking several communities controlled by the PCP-SL. In Quempiri, on May 13, 1990, the community fled to their farms when they heard three army helicopters. On May 14, 1991, the Sinchis …
On August 9, 1989, a group of 200 ronderos left Santa Rosa for Tambo in an action called operation Halcón. The reason for this operation was to reorganize the rondas in the highland districts of La Mar province, whose authorities, faced with the advance of the PCP-SL, had sent a …
Two hikers entered the declarant's house, took her to the side of a road and raped her. The incident occurred in the context of armed incursions by PCP-SL in the area.
On September 26, 1985, a mass crime occurred in the town of Huayllay, Tambo district, Ayacucho. The CVR report mentions this event in the context of September 1985, noting that it overshadowed the debate on political amnesty that was taking place in Congress. The Huayllay mass crime is mentioned along …
In mid-September 1984, a witness in the Uchuraccay case was detained by a group of Marines and taken to the Tambo military barracks. There she was tortured and raped, despite having the guarantees of the Peruvian Episcopate and the Ministry of the Interior due to her status as a witness …
In November 1983, refugees from ten high Andean communities gathered in Ccarhuapampa, on the outskirts of the town of Tambo. From the beginning, Ccarhuapampa was organized around its Civil Defense Committee (CDC), which not only established a rigid surveillance system, but was also concerned with the development of the nascent …
Families from ten communities gathered in Ccarhuapampa, on the outskirts of the city of Tambo, forming the first multi-communal village of displaced people. Later, other families from Uchuraccay and Iquicha joined them. From the beginning, Ccarhuapampa was organized around its Civil Defense Committee according to a military logic: the CDC …
After the trials carried out in the Uchuraccay plaza against the imprisoned Iquichanos and the women relatives of the guide Juan Argumedo, the community members Constantino Soto Aguilar and Mariano Ccunto were sent to the Tambo Civil Guard post. Their mission was to inform the authorities about the deaths of …
On May 15, 1982, the Shining Path PCP again attacked the Tambo police post, five months after the first attack on October 11, 1981. On this occasion, they found a town completely unguarded by the police, since the entire police force had been withdrawn to the provincial capital. This attack …
On May 15, 1982, the PCP-SL again assaulted the town of Tambo, finding the town unguarded by police. This was the second attack on the town, after a first attack on the police post on October 11, 1981. The October 11, 1981 attack had shown the deficiency and weakness of …
50 people led by a group of armed hikers razed the Tambo police post in the province of La Mar, Ayacucho. They seized two submachine guns, three revolvers and killed three policemen. During the assault they threw acid in the face of the guards defending the post. The slogan of …
Ferocious attack by the PCP-SL on the Tambo police post on the night of Sunday, October 11, the day of the fair. Twenty armed subversives attacked the post for 15 minutes and lethally wounded guard Jorge Vivanco Vizcarra, a native of Tambo. Two policemen were wounded. Civilians were also killed: …
The Ayacucho-Tambo-San Francisco highway was built in 1964, modifying the traditional transit routes in the region. Before its construction, Uchuraccay was an important transit route used by the villagers on their way to the Huanta valleys and the Apurímac jungle. This infrastructure project was part of the road integration process …
The road from Tambo to the port of San Francisco was opened in 1964, accelerating the process of occupation of the valley by peasant settlers from Ayacucho. This road infrastructure allowed the important fair of Tambo, which was the end of the road, to 'drop off' towards the jungle as …