Entry of the Armed Forces into the conflict in Ayacucho

Since the beginning of 1983, the war intensified in Ayacucho with the entry of the Armed Forces into the conflict. Militarization coincided with the implementation of the so-called 'dirty war', characterized by the use of indiscriminate violence, extrajudicial executions, rapes, disappearances and arbitrary detentions. The Armed Forces acted with ethnic contempt, racism and ferocity, applying the doctrine of 'internal war' to combat an enemy considered invisible because it was mimicked by the population.