Army assumes control of UNCP
In 1991, the Army took control of the National University of Central Peru (UNCP) following a series of operations that began in June 1990 and resulted in the arrest of more than a hundred allegedly subversive students.
In June 1990, the Army and the police entered the UNCP and arrested more than a hundred students suspected of being subversives. In the following months they carried out similar operations until 1991 when the Army took control of the university. This process took place in the context of the violent struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA in the UNCP, which had become bloody since 1989, with multiple murders of students, teachers and police officers on the university campus. The military intervention sought to control the subversive presence that had turned the university into the scene of armed confrontations.