Attack on Totos police post
PCP-SL attack against the police post in Totos, Cangallo, as part of the offensive to expel the police from rural areas and create a power vacuum favorable to their support bases.
On December 10, 1981, an attack was carried out against the police post of Totos in the province of Cangallo. This attack was part of a series of sustained PCP-SL offensives against the police during 1981, with the objective of pushing back the forces of law and order and generating a 'power vacuum' in the countryside. The strategy sought to leave a favorable terrain to convert the communities in the area into 'support bases' for the PCP-SL. This attack was part of a pattern of assaults on police posts that included Vischongo, Mollebamba and other places in the region during that year.