Takeover of Quero and assassinations
On November 9, 1989, the PCP-SL took the town of Quero in Junín and murdered five people by slitting their throats, among them two women relatives of authorities. The violence caused the almost total depopulation of the community.
On November 9, 1989, the PCP-SL took the town of Quero in Junin and murdered five people by slitting their throats, among them two women relatives of authorities. This attack was part of a wave of assassinations and destruction of public infrastructure that the Shining Path PCP carried out in November 1989, the bloodiest month in the area. The violence was so intense that the community of Quero was depopulated out of fear: of 210 community members in 1990, only 25 remained. This event occurred in the context of the PCP-SL's strategy to achieve absolute control associated with the strategic balance agreed upon by its leaders at the beginning of 1989.