Assault on communities of Santa Isabel and others
Shining Path PCP attack on six communities in the central jungle in August 1993, where they assassinated authorities and teachers, and mutilated the ears of 14 children between 5 and 10 years old. The assault was perpetrated by some 200 subversives, including natives.
In August 1993, some 200 subversives of the Shining Path PCP, among them natives, attacked the communities of Santa Isabel, Monte Rico, Jerusalén, San Isidro, Tahuantinsuyo and Irriari in the central jungle. During the assault, in addition to murdering the authorities and teachers of these communities, the subversives committed acts of extreme cruelty against the civilian population. In an act of particular horror, they mutilated the ears of 14 children between five and ten years of age. This attack was part of a series of assaults on communities in the Tsiriari valley carried out by subversive groups accompanied by masses (settlers and natives of all ages), who also sought to appropriate food, household goods, medicines and small animals.