PCP-SL forms committees in Tamaya river
At the end of 1989 and beginning of 1990, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso established Organized Committees and Open Popular Committees in the hamlets along the Tamaya River and its tributaries (Suaya, Butsaya and Noaya rivers), taking advantage of the area to control drug trafficking.
Between the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso managed to form Organized Committees and Open Popular Committees in the villages located along the Tamaya River and on the banks of the Suaya, Butsaya and Noaya rivers. After an unsuccessful incursion in the hamlet of Iparia on November 3, 1989, the subversives headed towards the hamlet of Charasmaná, at the mouth of the Tamaya River, where they were more successful in establishing their organization. The Tamaya River zone became an important area for the PCP-SL due to its links with drug trafficking, which began to be openly produced and commercialized in 1985. Committees formed in this area protected drug trafficking firms from attacks by the armed forces.