Return of families to Uchuraccay
On October 10, 1993, twenty-four families returned to Uchuraccay after almost a decade of forced absence. The community had been abandoned in mid-1984 due to the violence of the internal armed conflict.
On October 10, 1993, twenty-four families returned to Uchuraccay after a long period of absence, uprooting and diaspora. The community had ceased to exist in mid-1984 when the surviving families fled to nearby communities and towns in the highlands and jungle of Ayacucho, as well as to the cities of Huanta, Huamanga and Lima. This return marked the restart of communal life in Uchuraccay after almost a decade of abandonment. In 1981, the population of Uchuraccay was approximately 470 inhabitants, and during the armed conflict, one hundred and thirty-five community members were killed as a result of attacks by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, repression by counter-subversive forces and the peasant patrols.