Army and police intervention at Universidad Nacional del Centro campus
The army and police intervened twice on the campus of the Universidad Nacional del Centro in May 1989, searching for subversive elements. These interventions occurred in the midst of an escalation of violence that included murders of students by Sendero Luminoso and disappearances of university students by paramilitaries.
The Army and the police intervened twice on the campus of the Universidad Nacional del Centro in May 1989 in search of subversive elements. This intervention took place in a context of increasing violence at the university, where the Shining Path PCP had murdered three university students on the same campus on April 28, 1989. Subsequently, students allegedly linked to the Shining Path PCP began to be the target of disappearances and extrajudicial executions perpetrated by paramilitaries. The best known case was the arrest of UNC vice-rector Jaime Cerrón Palomino on June 8, 1990, whose body was found lifeless and with visible signs of torture on June 19.