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A group of people search for their loved ones among the massacred bodies at the Mazamari massacre
A group of people search for their loved ones among the bodies massacred in the Mazamari massacre. On August 18, 1993, a group of 150 to 300 people accompanied by Asháninka natives entered eight communities in the Tsiriari valley (district of Mazamari, province of Satipo), murdered 71 residents — including 16 minors — and left 10 others wounded. In some cases sexual abuse and looting of victims' homes were recorded. Despite being known in national media as an "Asháninka massacre," 21 of the victims were Nomatsiguenga natives; the rest were settlers established in the area. The majority of testimonies received by the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación indicate that the perpetrators were members of Sendero Luminoso.
Referenced in events
- Sympathy of settler communities towards the MRTA in the Tsiriari valley
- First slaughter in Monterrico community
- MC returns from Huancayo and supports MRTA
- Clash between ronderos and PCP-SL at La Roca
- Confrontation at La Roca
- Destruction of MRTA camp in Dos de Mayo
- Subversives take over Mazamari and kill 7 villagers
- Seizure of Dos de Mayo and death of residents
- Slaughter in Tahuantinsuyo
- Asháninka massacre in Tsiriari
- Massacre in communities of the Tsiriari Valley, Mazamari
- Slaughter in eight communities in the Tsiriari valley
- Slaughter in Nomatsiguenga Tahuantinsuyo community
- Massacre in Tsiriari valley
- Notice to the Army from Mazamari base on the massacre in the Tsiriari valley.
- Attack on settlers' camps in Satipo with mutilation of children
- Burial of the dead with the help of community members