Confrontation in Pucurhuay
Clash between a military patrol and a Shining Path group in Pucurhuay in May 1988, which resulted in the death of two children and a subversive collaborator. As a consequence, the villagers organized a Civil Defense Committee.
In May 1988, a military patrol confronted a group of hikers in the town of Pucurhuay. In the crossfire, a 2-year-old boy, a 14-year-old boy, and a local collaborator of the subversives were killed. After this confrontation, within a few days the villagers formed the Civil Defense Committee (CDC) of Pucurhuay and appointed a board of directors, electing Laurentino Mendoza Janampa as president. A few months later, Laurentino Mendoza was killed by a bullet to the back of the head in the city of Cerro de Pasco on October 29, 1990.