EP patrol enters Virgen del Rosario neighborhood

A Peruvian Army patrol entered the Virgen del Rosario neighborhood of Abancay on September 28, 1988. The report does not provide additional details about this event.

On September 28, 1988, a patrol of the Peruvian Army (EP) entered the Virgen del Rosario neighborhood of Abancay. The CVR report mentions this event briefly without providing additional details about the circumstances, motives or consequences of this military incursion. This entry took place in a context of intensification of the counter-subversive struggle announced by Alan Garcia's government in May of that year, with the implementation of a "hard hand against terrorists" policy.

Source: Informe CVR, página 150
Location: Barrio Virgen del Rosario, Abancay, Perú