Murder of more than 20 villagers in Mutuyccocha
In July 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed more than 20 villagers in Mutuyccocha, Iguain district, Huanta province. This took place during the intensification of the internal armed conflict when the PCP-SL increased its pressure on the peasant communities.
In July 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso perpetrated a collective murder of more than 20 villagers in the locality of Mutuyccocha, district of Iguain, province of Huanta. This event was part of the period of intensification of the internal armed conflict between 1988-1991, when the PCP-SL launched a new offensive after declaring the transition to the "strategic balance" stage. The massacre was part of the Shining Path's strategy to increase pressure on peasant communities and unleash a new wave of violence in the region. This event occurred in a context where the peasant patrols were living a second experience of sustained confrontations with the PCP-SL, coinciding also with bad harvests due to weather conditions that accentuated the peasants' rejection of the Shining Path columns.