Attack on Tarata
Attack perpetrated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso on July 16, 1992 on Tarata Street, Lima, as part of a wave of violence unleashed after the police intervention in the Canto Grande prison in June of that year.
The Tarata attack occurred on July 16, 1992 in Lima. According to the CVR report, this attack was part of a wave of Shining Path violence that culminated after the police intervention in the Canto Grande prison between June 6 and 9, 1992, which resulted in the assassination of prominent Socorro Popular cadres. The report states that this police intervention was one of the triggers of the wave of Shining Path violence that culminated in the Tarata attack. This attack took place in the context of the PCP-SL's strategy to achieve the so-called 'strategic balance' and its intensification of violent actions in the capital.