Paramilitaries start disappearances and executions
In late 1989, unidentified paramilitary groups initiated forced disappearance and extrajudicial execution operations against university, high school and secondary school students in Junín, allegedly linked to subversive groups. Subsequent investigations documented 89 student disappearances, including 20 university students.
At the end of 1989, unidentified "paramilitaries" began their actions in Junín, disappearing and extrajudicially executing a large number of university, high school and secondary school students, presumably linked to subversive groups. These actions took place in the context of an intense struggle between the PCP-SL and the MRTA at the National University of Central Peru (UNCP), which had reached bloody proportions with multiple murders of students and teachers. The paramilitaries acted without clear identification, using methods of forced disappearance and extrajudicial executions against young people suspected of subversive links. In July 1993, National Prosecutor Blanca Nélida Colán traveled to Huancayo to investigate the disappearances of 89 students, among them 20 university students, kidnapped by alleged paramilitaries.