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Asháninka ronderos are transported by helicopter by Armed Forces members
Asháninka ronderos are transported by helicopter by members of the Armed Forces in Puerto Ocopa, Satipo, Junín, in 1991. For more than ten years, Sendero Luminoso kept a large portion of the Asháninka population in captivity, subjecting them to forced labor, insufficient food, and mandatory indoctrination. Hundreds of indigenous people were massacred and entire communities lost their crops, animals, and homes. Nevertheless, the Asháninka people managed to organize themselves into self-defense patrols and resist the control that both Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA sought to impose on them.