Navy counter-subversive operations in the Ucayali River
The Navy carried out counter-subversive operations on the Ucayali River between March and April 1990 to prevent PCP-SL actions during the elections. Between 1989-1990 they applied a strategy of terror through helicopter bombings, raids, disappearances and extrajudicial executions.
Between March and April 1990, the Peruvian Navy carried out counter-subversive operations on the Ucayali River in order to prevent armed actions by the PCP-SL during the electoral process. During 1989 and 1990, the Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled on the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. They used helicopter gunships to bomb different villages considered as "red zones". Pucallpa's wetlands became cemeteries for dozens of people who were kidnapped or detained in raid operations. According to the Vicariate of Pucallpa, the Navy was mainly responsible for the discovery of mass graves, reports of disappearances and extrajudicial executions.