Attack on Pomacanchis police station
PCP-Sendero Luminoso attack against the Pomacanchis police post in the province of Acomayo, Cuzco, on February 7, 1987, as part of the expansion of subversive violence in the provinces of the department.
On February 7, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Pomacanchis police post in the province of Acomayo, department of Cuzco. This attack was part of the expansion of violence in the provinces of the department of Cuzco during the period 1984-1988. The province of Acomayo had begun to become an important zone of internal conflict, with incursions and assassinations in peasant communities since January 1983. This attack on the police post was one of the significant events that marked the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the region.