Operation Move One in Canto Grande
Police operation in Canto Grande prison to transfer more than 100 female inmates to Chorrillos, which resulted in 35 inmates killed according to the official statement of the Ministry of Interior on May 12.
Police intervention called 'Mudanza Uno' in the Shining Path wards of the Canto Grande prison to transfer more than 100 women to the Chorrillos prison. On May 12, an official communiqué from the Ministry of the Interior reported that 35 inmates accused of terrorism were killed. This operation was carried out in the context of the Fujimori government's intensification of the counter-subversive struggle, a few months before the capture of Abimael Guzman. The operation sought to relocate the Shining Path prisoners from the wards where the PCP-SL maintained internal control.