Start of SUTEP teachers' strike
SUTEP teachers' strike that began on May 8, 1991 and was harshly repressed, resulting in 2,000 teachers temporarily arrested, 20 disappearances and 14 murders. The repression included arrests by the Peruvian Army and assassinations of teachers in several provinces.
The World Confederation of Organizations of Professional Teachers (CMOPE) alleges a series of murders, arrests and acts of violence against teachers who were members of the Single Union of Education Workers of Peru (SUTEP) since the beginning of the strike on May 8, 1991. The repression of this strike resulted in the temporary arrest of 2,000 teachers, twenty disappearances and 14 murders. On May 17, 1991, seven teachers were arrested by the Peruvian Army in the province of Ayacucho. In the province of Pucará (Puno), Porfirio Suni (May 13, 1991), Pablo Mamani Marchena and Germán Macedo (May 24, 1991) were assassinated. On May 30, SUTEP leaders, accompanied by three parliamentarians and other union members, crossed Lima's Plaza de Armas and headed towards the Government Palace where they planned to request an audience with the wife of President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori to ask her to take a position on the teachers' demands.