Murder of twenty villagers in Mutuycocha
In July 1989, the Shining Path PCP murdered twenty villagers in Mutuycocha, Iguaín district, Huanta province, Ayacucho. This attack was part of a campaign of violence against rural communities that opposed subversive control.
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 the rural areas of northern Ayacucho, which coincided with years of bad harvests, which accentuated the communities' rejection of the subversive columns that tried to obtain food from the peasants. The Mutuycocha massacre was part of a series of collective murders perpetrated by the PCP-SL in the region during 1989 and 1990.