Detention and disappearance of villagers in Carhuancho mine
On March 7, 1983, military personnel detained eight villagers in the Santa Rosa de Carhuancho mine, accusing them of belonging to the PCP-SL after a Shining Path raid a few days earlier. The detainees were disappeared.
In the first days of March 1983, a contingent of PCP-SL militants entered the Santa Rosa mine, located in the town of Carhuancho, district of San Pedro de Coris in Churcampa. On March 7, military personnel arrived at the mine and arrested eight villagers: Segundino Fernandez Huamán, Julio Huamán Fernández, Urbano Huamán Noa, Alejandro Huamán Ramos, Ángel Huamán Fernández, Jesús Fernández Huamán, Leoncio Ayala Velarde and Francisco Quispe. The military took the detainees away in a vehicle, accusing them of being members of the subversive ranks. The villagers were disappeared after their detention.