Takeover of the village of Marona
In June 1996, forty Shining Path PCP subversives took the town of Marona, demonstrating that they still had the capacity to mobilize significant contingents in the Huallaga region. This attack was part of the violent actions that continued in the area despite the general decline of the subversion after the capture of Guzman.
In June 1996, forty subversives of the Shining Path PCP took the town of Marona. This attack was part of a series of incursions that demonstrated that the PCP-SL still had the capacity to mobilize large contingents in the region, despite being in a period of decline following the capture of Abimael Guzmán in 1992. The capture of Marona occurred in the context of continuing violence in the Huallaga area, where in addition to attacks on convoys and selective assassinations of various authorities, the subversive group was carrying out raids on villages. Two months later, in August of the same year, ninety subversives took the town of Aucayacu and attacked the police post.