Murder of aid workers in Haquira
On December 5, 1988, the Shining Path PCP took the town of Haquira in Apurimac and assassinated two French aid workers, a Peruvian technician and two villagers working for the NGO CICDA. This attack was part of the subversive strategy of territorial control in the southern Andean region.
On December 5, 1988, a column of the Shining Path PCP took the town of Haquira in the province of Cotabambas, Apurimac. During this raid, the subversive group murdered two local villagers, two French aid workers and a Peruvian technician. The foreign victims and the Peruvian technician worked for the NGO CICDA (Centro Internacional de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Agrícola). This attack occurred in the context of the advance of the PCP-SL in the southern Andean region, where the subversive organization was trying to set up Popular Committees and exercise territorial control. The province of Cotabambas had been declared in a state of emergency in June 1988, being the first province in the southern Andean region to receive this declaration to counteract the control of the Shining Path PCP.