PCP-SL attack on Pichiwillca rejected by DECAS
DECAS and Navy repel Shining Path attack on Pichiwillca leaving more than ten subversives dead
On April 13, 1988, a column of forty heavily armed PCP-Sendero Luminoso members escorted by hundreds of peasants from the local force attacked Pichiwillca, the main DECAS base in the Apurimac River Valley. With the help of the ronderos of Anchihuay who immediately came to the defense of Pichiwillca, and a detachment of the Navy, the attack was repulsed after a tenacious battle that left more than a dozen subversives dead. After the confrontation, a new counteroffensive of the patrols began.