Statement by Gen. Clemente Noel on extermination of terrorist outbreaks
General EP Clemente Noel Moral declared in El Comercio that the Peruvian Army would remain only two months in Ayacucho to 'exterminate the terrorist outbreaks'. This declaration marked the official beginning of anti-subversive military operations in the emergency zone.
General EP Clemente Noel Moral declared on January 1 in El Comercio that the Peruvian Army will remain only two months in Ayacucho, time he has foreseen as 'necessary to exterminate the terrorist outbreaks'. This declaration marked the beginning of military operations in the emergency zone of Ayacucho, where the Armed Forces had assumed internal control of the department at the end of December 1982. General Noel Moral was appointed as head of the Political Military Command of Ayacucho and his statements reflected the government's initial strategy to confront the Shining Path insurgency in the region.