Confrontation in Cobriza
Clash between law enforcement forces and presumed Shining Path supporters in Cobriza, Tayacaja, which resulted in the death of 18 seditionists on January 14, 1984.
On January 14, 1984, there was a confrontation between the forces of law and order and presumed Shining Path members in the town of Cobriza, province of Tayacaja, department of Huancavelica. The confrontation resulted in the death of 18 people identified as seditionists or presumed members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of subversive actions that the PCP-SL had been carrying out in the districts of Paucarbamba (Huancavelica) and Colcabamba (Tayacaja) since the end of 1982, including dynamite attacks and death threats against authorities.