Acosvinchos Massacre
Massacre perpetrated by the Shining Path PCP in Acosvinchos in January 1990, where 48 community members were killed. It was one of the worst massacres of the internal armed conflict in Peru.
In January 1990, one of the worst massacres of Peru's internal armed conflict took place. The Shining Path PCP raided the town of Acosvinchos and killed 48 community members. This massacre occurred 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 (Huanta, Huamanga, La Mar) between 1989 and 1990. These years coincided with poor harvests, which accentuated the peasants' rejection of the PCP-SL columns that tried to obtain food from them.