Discovery of mass grave in Cayara
On August 13, 1988, a mass grave with several corpses was discovered in Cayara, three months after the May 14 massacre where the Peruvian Army killed 35 peasants in retaliation for an ambush.
On August 13, 1988, a mass grave containing several bodies was discovered in Cayara. This discovery occurred three months after the massacre of May 14, 1988, when members of the Peruvian Army entered the district of Cayara in retaliation for an ambush on a military convoy. During that raid, the military forces gathered the entire population and killed 35 peasants without explanation. The discovery of the mass grave provided physical evidence of the massacre that the government had initially denied as false.