Kidnapping and murder of 80 peasants in San José de Secce
On May 20, 1983, about eighty peasants from the community of San José de Secce in Huantina were kidnapped and later killed in the context of the military offensive in Ayacucho.
On May 20, 1983, nearly eighty peasants from the Huantina community of San José de Secce were kidnapped and subsequently murdered. This event occurred in the context of an intense military offensive in the rural areas and small towns of the department of Ayacucho, during which serious human rights violations took place. The event took place during the first wave of the First Campaign of the PCP-SL, which lasted from May to June 1983.