Burning of ballot boxes in Chuschi - Start of the armed struggle of the PCP-SL
Armed group of the PCP-SL burns ballot boxes in Chuschi, marking the official start of the armed struggle.
An armed group of five hooded PCP-SL members broke into the premises where the ballot boxes and lists for the next day's national elections were kept and burned eleven ballot boxes. Four of the assailants were soon captured in an abandoned hut near the village. This event was claimed by the PCP-SL as the concretion of the ILA (Beginning of the Armed Struggle) and the beginning of its people's war. The event merited only a few lines in a Lima newspaper, lost among the avalanche of news about the first presidential elections in seventeen years.