Replacement of General Clemente Noel Moral as head of the Political-Military Command of Ayacucho

On December 31, 1983, General EP Clemente Noel Moral was replaced as head of the Political Military Command of Ayacucho by General EP Adrián Huamán Centeno, after a year of anti-subversive operations marked by allegations of human rights violations.

General EP Clemente Noel Moral was replaced as head of the Political Military Command of the emergency zone in Ayacucho on December 31, 1983. During the last week of the year, he left the headquarters of the Military Command declaring to the newspaper El Observador that "no fear weighs on my conscience". He would be replaced by General EP Adrián Huamán Centeno. General Noel had been in charge of anti-subversive operations in Ayacucho since the Armed Forces assumed internal control of the department on December 31, 1982, a period marked by serious human rights violations and allegations of disappearances.

Source: Informe CVR, páginas 82
Location: Ayacucho