Discovery of mass graves in Pucayacu
Discovery of mass graves in Pucayacu, Huanta, with fifty unrecognizable corpses that had been burned with acid. The victims had been detained by members of the Navy in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta and taken to Pucayacu.
On July 7, 1985, mass graves were found in the community of Pucayacu, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. Around August 16, 1984, members of the Navy, stationed in the Municipal Stadium of Huanta, had taken fifty people who had been detained there to the town of Pucayacu. On August 22, 1984, the Pucayacu grave was found with fifty unrecognizable corpses, as they had apparently been burned with acid. The Joint Command of the Armed Forces issued a communiqué on August 24 suggesting that the bodies found were those of members of the PCP-SL killed in confrontations. Subsequently, on August 4, 1985, the military killed and buried in mass graves seven more civilians in Pucayacu.