Peruvian Warships Suppressed the El Frontón Mutiny
The Peruvian Army has exterminated the inmate population of three Lima prisons in the bloodiest event recorded in the country since the emergence of terrorism in 1980. After 35 hours of occupation by Sendero Luminoso inmates, soldiers reduced the El Frontón prison to rubble and recovered — also through blood and fire — those of Lurigancho and Santa Bárbara, with a number of dead still unknown but estimated at around 300. Helicopters and warships took part in the operation to retake El Frontón, from which the island where the prison is located was bombed.
Referenced in events
- Lurigancho prison riot
- Riot and massacre in Lurigancho prison
- Penalty Killing
- PCP-SL mutiny in El Frontón, Lurigancho and Santa Mónica prisons
- Rioting in Lima and Callao prisons
- Rioting in Lima's prisons
- Riot in Lima and Callao prisons
- Slaughter of the prisons (Riots in Lima's prisons)
- Riots and massacres in Lurigancho, Santa Bárbara and El Frontón prisons
- Violent suppression of riots in three Lima prisons
- Riots and massacres in three Lima prisons
- Massacre in the Lima prisons
- PCP-SL prisoners riot in three Lima prisons
- Massacre in Lima and Callao prisons
- Massacre in Lima and Callao prisons
- President Alan Garcia's message on prison riots