Destruction of IER Waqrani
In 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso destroyed the IER Waqrani in Puno, a rural education institute belonging to the Catholic Church and supported by the PUM. The attack was part of Shining Path operations in the provinces of Melgar and Azángaro.
In 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso destroyed the Waqrani Rural Education Institute (IER), located in the department of Puno. This institute belonged to the Catholic Church and was supported by the Unified Mariateguist Party (PUM). The destruction of IER Waqrani took place in the context of the rearticulation of a new column of the PCP-SL that carried out several operations in the provinces of Melgar and Azángaro. This attack was part of the Shining Path strategy of attacking institutions linked to the Church and leftist parties that competed for influence among the Puno peasantry.