FFAA press release on Pucayacu grave
The Joint Command of the Armed Forces issued a communiqué on August 24, 1984 suggesting that the fifty corpses found in the Pucayacu grave were members of the PCP-SL killed in confrontations, contradicting evidence that they were detainees transferred by the Navy.
On August 24, 1984, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces issued an official communiqué about the discovery of a mass grave in Pucayacu. The communiqué suggested that the bodies found in the grave were those of members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed in confrontations with the Armed Forces. Two days earlier, on August 22, the Pucayacu grave had been found with fifty unrecognizable corpses, as they had apparently been burned with acid. Around August 16, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had transferred to the town of Pucayacu fifty people who had been detained there.