Confrontation in Tambobamba
Clash between the Peruvian Army and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in Tambobamba, Cotabambas, Apurimac, on May 6, 1989. This event occurred during the most violent period of the internal armed conflict in the southern Andes.
On May 6, 1989, there was a confrontation between the Peruvian Army and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in Tambobamba, capital of the province of Cotabambas in Apurimac. This confrontation took place in the context of a new counter-subversive strategy implemented by the Armed and Police Forces, which established Counter-Subversive Bases and formed Self-Defense Committees in the peasant communities of almost all the provinces of the department of Apurimac. The period 1988-1989 reached the highest peak of the 20 years of the internal armed conflict in the southern Andes, with 160 and 230 deaths respectively. This confrontation was one of the bloodiest, along with others such as the one in the community of San Francisco in Abancay on February 28, 1989, where 30 ronderos were killed.