Appearance of bodies of kidnapped university students
The bodies of two UNSCH Obstetrics students, Mariscote Santa Cruz and Leoncio Espinoza, who had been kidnapped a week before, were found. The event occurred in the context of systematic violence against the university community of Huamanga.
The lifeless bodies of Mariscote Santa Cruz and Leoncio Espinoza, both students of Obstetrics at the National University San Cristobal de Huamanga, were found two days after they were kidnapped. The kidnapping had occurred approximately one week before the bodies were found. This event was part of a wave of violence against members of the university community in Huamanga during 1991, perpetrated by paramilitary groups or law enforcement agents in civilian clothes. The University registered the highest number of victims in its three strata between 1989 and 1991.