Second attack on the police post of Vilcashuamán
Second attack by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso on the Vilcashuamán police post on July 28, 1982, as part of a series of assaults on police posts in the area during that year.
On July 28, 1982, the second attack on the Vilcashuamán police post by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso took place. This attack was part of a series of assaults on police posts that the PCP-SL carried out during 1982 in the area. The Vilcashuamán post had been attacked for the first time on March 31 of that year, and was later attacked again on August 22. This sustained offensive against the police was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to push back the forces of law and order, generate a 'power vacuum' in the countryside and convert the communities into their 'support bases'.