Clash in Torrerumi
Clash between peasant patrols and the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in Torrerumi, Sivia, in November 1992. The ronderos went out to look for the Shining Path after the murder of 2 villagers.
In November 1992, there was a confrontation between the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the peasant patrols in Torrerumi, Sivia district. The local ronderos went out to look for the Shining Path guerrillas after they had killed two villagers in a previous raid. This confrontation is part of the dynamics of violence in the Apurimac River Valley, where the organized peasant patrols directly confronted the Shining Path columns. The event is part of the final period of the internal armed conflict in the area, when the peasant self-defense organizations had managed to consolidate and respond to PCP-SL incursions.