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Burial of the dead with the help of community members
On Friday, August 20, 1993, two days after the massacre perpetrated by Shining Path columns in the Tsiriari valley, the villagers who had survived by hiding in the bush finished burying the dead. Four villagers who arrived from Mazamari helped them in this task. On Thursday, August 19, the villagers …
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PCP-SL kills 12 community members in Matucana Alta
A PCP-SL column kills 12 community members of Matucana Alta - Trigolini, La Mar, Ayacucho, and leaves four others wounded. This massacre is part of the Shining Path's campaign of terror against peasant communities.
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Murder of community members in Ñuñunhuayco
In March 1991, approximately 100 hikers simultaneously took over the towns of Ñuñunhuayco and Patahuasi in the district of Cangallo. During this PCP-SL incursion, 8 community members were killed in Ñuñunhuayco. This event is part of the continuation of violence in the area during the 1988-1991 period, when the PCP-SL …
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Takeover of Ñuñuhuayco and Patahuasi
In March 1991, about 100 Shining Path PCP subversives took over the towns of Ñuñuhuayco and Patahuasi in the province of Cangallo, department of Ayacucho. During this raid, the subversives killed eight community members in Ñuñuhuayco and six community members in Patahuasi. This attack took place in the context of …
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Execution of community members in Santo Tomás
Two community members from Santo Tomás, province of Chumbivilcas, Cuzco, were extrajudicially executed by police officers guarding the community. The victims were identified as Marcelino Valencia and Zacarías Pasca. The event occurred in the context of the military and police presence in rural areas during the internal armed conflict. The …
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Murder of community members in Ccachahui
On April 25, 1990, in the community of Ccachahui, district of Ranrapata, province of Chumbivilcas in Cuzco, 21 soldiers dressed as peasants assassinated 10 community members. This event was part of a larger massacre that took place in the province of Chumbivilcas between April 20 and 30, 1990, where a …
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Murder of 48 community members in Acosvinchos
In January 1990, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso perpetrated a massacre in the town of Acosvinchos, killing 48 community members. This event took place in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict between 1988-1991, a period in which the PCP-SL launched a new offensive after declaring the transition to …
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Acosvinchos Massacre
In January 1990, one of the worst massacres of Peru's internal armed conflict took place. The Shining Path PCP raided the town of Acosvinchos and killed 48 community members. This massacre occurred in the context of a second wave of sustained confrontations between the PCP-SL and the peasant patrols in …
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Multiple murders in Moya and Chopcca district
In the district of Moya, members of the PCP-SL murdered a teacher and a justice of the peace. In the district of Chopcca, a Shining Path detachment murdered Jose Soto, Guillermo Quispe, Domingo Taipe, Pablo Ataipoma and three unidentified community members. These murders were part of the PCP-SL's terror campaign …
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Murder of five community members in Huancavelica
On November 2, 1989, an Army patrol surrounded a community in Huancavelica and forced the villagers out of their homes. They then called five community members by roll call: Román Quispe Camayo, Overto Macha Solano, Nicolás Reyes Pariona, Simeón Clemente Salvatierra and Filemón Clemente Madueño. These five men were locked …
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Murder of 22 people in Paccha
In November 1989, the Shining Path PCP raided the town of Paccha, Vinchos district, Huanta province. During this incursion, 22 people were killed, including villagers and local authorities. This attack was part of a series of massacres that the PCP-SL perpetrated in the northern part of Ayacucho (Huanta, Huamanga, La …
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Murder of 10 community members in Sallalli
In October 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed 10 community members in the town of Sallalli, Vinchos district, Huamanga province. This event occurred in a context of intensification of the internal armed conflict in the region, when the PCP-SL was launching a new offensive after declaring the transition to the "strategic …
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Murder of 12 people in Congos Alto
On April 12, 1989, in front of the population gathered in the square of Congos Alto, the Shining Path PCP assassinated 12 people, including authorities, teachers, the president of the community and community members. The victims had participated in a meeting to organize opposition to the Shining Path PCP. After …
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Murders in Rajan
In 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated several people in Raján, Ocros, including Rosario Rojas (Vice President of the Community), Abraham Castillo (Mayor), Martín Rojas, Samuray Rojas and Hitler Rojas. The latter three were apparently killed for asking for quotas on behalf of the PCP-SL. The violence continued in 1991 when Eva …
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Execution of Abraham Victorio Herrera in Tuntur
Abraham Victorio Herrera, known as 'Trucha', was executed by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the locality of Tuntur-Tocanca, in the province of Cajatambo. This assassination occurred in the context of the expansion of the PCP-SL's main force base operations in the highlands north of Lima. The increase in violence in 1988 …
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Death of Simeón Auccatoma Quispe in prison
Simeón Auccatoma Quispe, a member of the Uchuraccay community and one of the three defendants arrested for the massacre of journalists on January 26, 1983, died in prison of tuberculosis contracted in the Lurigancho prison. During the oral trial, Auccatoma Quispe was extremely affected and submissive, bursting into tears several …
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PCP-SL raid in Putaqasa
On September 14, 1987, the PCP-SL raided Putaqasa, part of the Sacsamarca district, killing nine community members and burning houses. This attack was part of the PCP-SL's retaliatory actions against communities that had formed or supported Self-Defense Committees. Putaqasa was attacked again on February 10, 1989, when the PCP-SL raided …
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Death of 5 community members in Putis
In July 1987, five community members were murdered in Putis, a locality in the district of San José de Santillana in the province of Huanta. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of the internal armed conflict in the region, during a period of relative calm between 1985 …
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Murder of Sol Naciente community members
In July 1985, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the Sol Naciente farm, located in the district of Ayna, province of La Mar. During this incursion, the Shining Path guerrillas assassinated local villagers. The attack resulted in the death of 5 people. This event occurred in the context of the …
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Murder of 7 community members in Huanchi
In October 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso killed 7 community members in the town of Huanchi, Santa Rosa district, in the Apurimac River Valley. This event occurred in the context of the intensification of Shining Path violence in the area, during the period in which the PCP-SL sought to consolidate its …
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Murder of 9 community members in Huanchi
In September 1984, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the town of Huanchi, Santa Rosa district, and killed 9 community members. This event was part of a series of attacks perpetrated by the Shining Path in the Apurimac River Valley during 1984, a year of intense violence in the area. The attack …
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Chilcayoc community members murdered in Cochayoc
On August 13, 1984, a group of community members from Chilcayoc who were on their way to Lima were murdered in Cochayoc, Belen, by members of the Shining Path. The perpetrators apparently came from the community of Belen. This attack was a reprisal by the PCP-SL against the community of …
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Prosecution accusation against three detainees and fourteen community members of Uchuraccay
In March 1984, the Public Prosecutor's Office charged three detained community members (Dionisio Morales Pérez, Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe) and fourteen other community members from Uchuraccay for the massacre of journalists that took place on January 26, 1983. Subsequently, on August 14, 1984, the Public Prosecutor's Office …
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Murder of 10 community members of Bellavista
In September 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso murdered 10 community members in the town of Bellavista, district of Chiara, province of Huamanga. This event was part of a series of massacres perpetrated in the area during 1983, a year that saw a dramatic intensification of violence in the provinces of Huamanga, …
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Murder of 5 community members in Huaychao
In August 1983, the PCP-SL raided the community of Huaychao, killing 5 community members. This attack was part of a series of reprisals by the PCP-SL against the communities of the Huanta highlands that had organized against them. Huaychao had been the scene in January 1983 of the first peasant …
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Detention of Simeón Aucatoma Quispe
Simeón Aucatoma Quispe, varayoc of the Uchuraccay community, was arrested on July 20, 1983 as one of only three community members captured in the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre of January 26, 1983. He was accused along with sixteen other community members for the murder of eight journalists. During …
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Arrest of Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles
Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles was one of the three Uchuraccay community members arrested in the judicial process for the massacre of journalists on January 26, 1983. He was captured in Tambo on July 5, 1983, together with Dionisio Morales Pérez (arrested on May 17) and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe (arrested on July …
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Assassination of 20 community members in Sachabamba
In July 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso raided the town of Sachabamba, Chiara district, Huamanga province, killing 20 community members. This event was part of a series of massacres perpetrated by the Shining Path in the district of Chiara during 1983, which also included the murder of 10 community members in …
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Confrontation in Sacsamarca
In the early morning of May 21, 1983, an unspecified number of hikers, men and women, from the "lower part" (Hualla, Tiquihua, Canaria, etc.), led by "comrade Omar", prepared an attack against Sacsamarca. When the hikers were in the Pallqa annex, one of the community members they had arrested managed …
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Murder of 4 community members in Huaychao
In May 1983, the PCP-SL raided the community of Huaychao, killing 4 community members. This attack was part of a series of reprisals by the PCP-SL against the communities of the Huanta highlands that had organized against them. The community of Huaychao had led the first peasant reaction against Shining …
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Murder of 29 community members in Yerbabuena
In May 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso entered the town of Yerbabuena taking advantage of the absence of the Republican Guard. During this incursion, the subversives assassinated 29 villagers. This attack took place in a context of increasing violence in the Chungui area, where the PCP-SL sought to expand its territorial …
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Prosecutor's accusation against Uchuraccay community members
On February 7, 1983, based on police reports, the Huamanga Provincial Prosecutor's Office formally denounced three Uchuraccay community members: Fortunato Gavilán, Silvio Chávez Soto and Santiago Ccente, ordering their arrest. This denunciation took place within the framework of the judicial process initiated after the massacre of eight journalists on January …
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Murder of 8 journalists in Uchuraccay
On January 26, 1983, in the midst of their confrontation against the PCP-SL, the Uchuraccay community members murdered eight journalists and a guide. This event occurred days after the communities of the Huantina puna reacted against the Shining Path, killing seven Shining Path members in Macabamba and Huaychao on January …
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Ataque de los Comuneros en Canchacancha
In 1983, the community members of Canchacancha took action against the Shining Path-PCP Shining Path guerrillas who had attacked their community. In the confrontation, the community members managed to capture several subversives, although they lost community member Albino Tacuri Condori. Those captured were handed over to the police, but their …
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Slaughter of 40 community members in Pallqas temple
In January 1983, the Shining Path PCP perpetrated a massacre of 40 community members in the temple of the town of Pallqas. This was one of the events that triggered the installation of a mixed law enforcement base in the area. As a direct response to this massacre, a base …
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Murder of hikers in Huaychao
In January 1983, community members of Huaychao, in the highlands of the province of Huanta, killed seven Shining Path members in reaction to the assassination of community authorities. This action represents one of the first violent responses of peasant communities to the authoritarian project of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The event …
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Incursion of Sinchis and capture of community members in Santo Tomas de Pata
In October 1982, the Sinchis of the Civil Guard raided Santo Tomas de Pata for the first time with the objective of searching for the Senderista column. During this operation, they captured 5 community members from Santo Tomas de Pata. The captured communards were later released, but only after being …
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Arrest of community members in Cocayro
In March 1982, the Republican Guards arrived in Cocayro commanded by Commander Salas. The commander began to read a list and called some community members to arrest them. This operation was part of the police repression actions that intensified in the area after the first armed actions of the PCP-SL. …
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Murder of community member Emiterio Huamán by PCP-SL in Oronqoy
In 1981, community member Emiterio Huamán was assassinated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the town of Oronqoy. This assassination had immediate consequences on the dynamics of the conflict in the area. Previously, the Forces of Order and the Mollebamba ronderos had been installed in Oronqoy for several months, but later …
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San Pedro Massacre
The San Pedro massacre occurred in 1963 in the context of land disputes between communities and haciendas in the province of Chincheros (then part of Andahuaylas). The villagers of Callapayoc, in Ongoy, mobilized in dispute over the San Pedro hacienda. This peasant mobilization caused the death of at least 17 …
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Oronqoy
For five years, SL took over the village of Oronqoy and turned it into a "liberated zone," renaming it Puka Llacta. The entire community was held captive because, like others, …
Uchuraccay or the Silence of the Killers
The writer and journalist Alfredo Pita recalls that fateful day when he arrived in Uchuraccay immediately after the massacre, about which clear answers are still lacking due to what has …
Uchuraccay, Vargas Llosa's Nightmare
It has been a long time since Mario Vargas Llosa has referred to Uchuraccay, that horrific episode in the history of Peru that, on January 26, 1983, cost the lives …
What Did Vargas Llosa Write About Uchuraccay?
Vargas Llosa bade farewell to Uchuraccay forever and never referred to the subject again, not even, as we recall, in his memoirs titled "El Pez en el Agua," perhaps because, …
The Extrajudicial Executions in Accomarca
The Final Report of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación established that on August 14, 1985, an Army patrol belonging to the "Lince" company of Huamanga, under the command …
Acocro District Sows 33 Tonnes of Potatoes – News Item
Through a potato seed harvesting project, the Municipalidad Distrital de Acocro managed to plant 33 tons of certified potato in the same district. This means it will no longer be …
Comparative Analysis of News Coverage in the Newspapers El Comercio, La República, and El Diario Marka in the Uchuraccay Case
The following research captures each of the events that left us with reflection and above all a lesson about what it means to carry out journalistic work. Here, details of …
Peru: Investigating Twenty Years of Recent Violence
The cataclysm that befell Peru during the last two decades of the 20th century — perhaps the most severe in its history — is the subject of all the works …
Never So Close Did the Distant Strike. Memory and Political Violence in Peru
This work explores the scenario of violence and the ways in which the memory of Uchuraccay operates — a community that, after the massacre, became an emblematic reference point for …
How We Learned to Kill Our Neighbor: Memory, Violence and Reconciliation
We have always believed that to achieve true national reconciliation it was necessary to know the truth of what had occurred during the years of the war. In the following …
High Risk. 13 Years Since the Uchuraccay Massacre and 22 Unresolved Cases
On January 26, thirteen years ago, the community of Iquicha, in the jurisdiction of Uchuraccay, was the scene of the massacre of eight journalists who, in their eagerness to document …
Report on Uchuraccay
In the following pages OIGA offers its readers the complete report of the Investigative Commission on the Uchuraccay massacre. Aware of the historical value of this document, we have not …
Death of Eight Journalists in Uchuraccay Confirmed
Front page of El Comercio. Monday, January 31, 1983. Other headlines: Due to a misunderstanding, comuneros confused them with terrorists.
Perpetrators of the Massacre Were Transferred to Ayacucho
Front page of El Comercio. February 2, 1983. Other headlines: Among them the Lieutenant Governor and several women. Lima gives a massive farewell to the murdered journalists. Relatives, upset at …