Counter-Subversive Base in Comas
In July 1992, the military detachment installed in Comas since 1991 became a counter-subversive base. This base operated until 1994, when the Army withdrew from Tulumayo, leaving control to the peasant patrols.
The military detachment installed in Comas in 1991 became a counter-subversive base in July 1992. Until then, since the first months of 1990, the peasant patrols were in charge of controlling internal order and the administration of justice, with relative autonomy, assuming all the functions of the communal and local authorities (governors and lieutenant governors), municipal authorities and the justice system, with the endorsement of the military. The ronderos sometimes committed abuses that generated complaints. In 1994, army troops withdrew from Tulumayo, and control of the region continued under the control of the Tulumayo peasant patrols, which had achieved, together with army operations, the definitive destruction of the Shining Path groups throughout the basin.