Assault on the Mollebamba GC station
On January 21, 1981, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assaulted the Mollebamba Civil Guard post in Cangallo, resulting in the arrest of 6 subversives. This attack was part of the Shining Path offensive to expel the police from the Ayacucho countryside.
On January 21, 1981, the Civil Guard post of Mollebamba in the province of Cangallo was assaulted by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This attack was part of a series of sustained offensives against the police during 1981, with the aim of pushing back the forces of law and order and generating a 'power vacuum' in the countryside. As a result of the assault, 6 subversives were arrested. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's strategy of expelling the police from rural areas in order to convert the communities into 'support bases' for their organization.