Murders in Quiparacra
On May 17, 1992, PCP-SL militants disguised as military personnel took over Quiparacra and killed seven people, including councilwoman Isabel Alcantara, in the presence of the villagers. This attack was part of a campaign of terror against local authorities in the region.
In the early morning of May 17, 1992, a contingent of PCP-Sendero Luminoso militants, dressed in military uniforms to look like army soldiers, took over the town of Quiparacra. The subversives murdered seven people, among them a councilwoman, in the presence of the villagers. The victims were Isabel Alcántara (councilwoman), Julián Alarcón Gonzáles, Abrahán Cóndor Alarcón, Eloy Flores Anaya, Julio Jara Escobar, Cesario Rivera Gamarra and Alejandro Rivera Zarate. This attack was part of a series of incursions by the PCP-SL in May 1992, which included similar attacks in Chupaca (May 13), three annexes of Ulcumayo (May 14) and Quiparacra (May 17), in a strategy of systematic annihilation of local authorities and people considered opposed to their cause.