Delivery of weapons to Self-Defense Committees of Paucartambo
Delivery of shotguns and ammunition to nine Self-Defense Committees in the province of Paucartambo, Cuzco, as part of the counter-subversive strategy during the pacification period of the internal armed conflict.
On October 20, 1993, shotguns and ammunition were delivered to nine Self-Defense Committees in the province of Paucartambo, in the department of Cuzco. This delivery of weapons was part of the counter-subversive strategy implemented by the Armed Forces in the southern Andean region during the pacification period. The Self-Defense Committees had been organized since 1989 in various provinces of the southern Andean region as part of the alliance between the Armed Forces and the peasantry to confront the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. By 1993, the internal armed conflict in the region was in a downward phase following the capture of Abimael Guzmán in September 1992.