Cayara Massacre
Massacre perpetrated by law enforcement forces in the community of Cayara, Víctor Fajardo, where 28 peasants were executed in cold blood in retaliation for an ambush by the Shining Path PCP on an Army convoy.
On May 13, 1988, in retaliation for a Shining Path PCP column ambushing an Army convoy in the vicinity of the community, a law enforcement patrol raided Cayara. Law enforcement forces gathered the population in the community and killed 28 peasants in cold blood. This was one of the most notorious cases of an attack on a civilian village in the region during this period. The event occurred in the context of violence between counter-subversive forces and the Shining Path PCP in the south-central highlands of the country.
