Asháninkas organize themselves into Self-Defense Committees
The Ashaninka of the Ene and Tambo rivers organized themselves into Self-Defense Committees in 1991 to confront the PCP-SL, receiving support from the army that had entered Satipo that same year.
In 1991, the Ashaninka of the Ene and Tambo rivers organized themselves into Self-Defense Committees to confront the PCP-SL. This organization took place in the context of the Army's entry into Satipo at the end of 1991, when the armed forces compulsively organized the population into urban and peasant patrols. The native patrols, which had been confronting the PCP-SL on their own initiative, received support from the army. From the military point of view, the zone began to be "pacified" with numerous deaths and detainees-disappeared.