Pending Justice and Confessions 27 Years After the Accomarca Massacre
Twenty-seven years ago, on August 14, 1985, 69 people — including elderly individuals, women, and children — were extrajudicially murdered in the Huancayoc ravine, in the community of Accomarca, by members of the Armed Forces, as part of a counterinsurgency operation aimed at eliminating anyone suspected of having infiltrated the ranks of Sendero Luminoso. This tragedy is added to the hundreds of massacres that occurred with similar coldness in other communities throughout the country during the internal armed conflict. However, the judicial process that followed made Accomarca an emblematic case that would expose the systematic nature of state violence during this period.