Killing of 21 people by the army in Santa Rosa

In August 1985, the Peruvian army executed 21 people in Santa Rosa, a district in the province of La Mar. This event occurred in the context of counter-subversive operations in the Apurimac River Valley (VRA), an area where the Armed Forces and the DECAS (Counter-Subversive Civil Defense) had gained control of the valley by mid-1985, when the Shining Path was in full retreat. The event is recorded in the chronology of the report as part of the human rights violations committed by the forces of law and order during the internal armed conflict.