Accomarca, a Genocide by Telmo Hurtado and García Pérez
It was August 14, 1985, when an army patrol commanded by Second Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado arrived at the district of Accomarca, in Ayacucho. The military patrol forced a large group of residents to gather in one place. Once the population had been assembled, the soldiers began firing bursts of machine-gun fire and throwing war grenades. The goal was to kill indiscriminately, creating terror among the population and punishing communities that supported the insurgency. At the end of the massacre, 69 people lay dead, including 30 children under the age of 10, 27 women, and a number of young men and elderly. Published on April 7, 2007.