PCP-SL raid at Choimacota
PCP-SL raid in Choimacota, Sivia, in July 1989, after the Army organized the villagers into Self-Defense Committees. It is part of the Shining Path offensive against organized communities in the Apurimac River Valley.
In July 1989, the PCP-SL carried out an incursion in Choimacota, Sivia district. This action occurred after the Peruvian Army organized the villagers into Self-Defense Committees (CAD). The raid was part of the Shining Path offensive in the late 1980s in the Apurimac River Valley, when the PCP-SL intensified its attacks against communities that had formed self-defense committees with military support. The event was inscribed in the context of the second stage of the war that Sendero called the 'strategic balance', characterized by increased pressure on peasant communities and a new wave of violence.