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Combined police and army forces took the town of Salko and captured 10 hikers on August 6, 1993. This operation was part of the counter-subversive strategy in the high provinces of Cuzco, where the joint action of counter-subversive forces and self-defense committees was beginning to be successful. The event was …
In July 1991, for the first time, a state of emergency was decreed in the high provinces of the department of Cuzco. This measure was taken in a context of worsening PCP-Sendero Luminoso operations in the region. The period corresponds to the phase of counter-subversive strategies (1989-1992), when the Armed …
In June 1987, in the high provinces of Cuzco, the PCP-SL began a series of attacks against various police posts. In addition, subversives and abigeos acted in the districts of Chamac and Livitaca, province of Chumbivilcas, demonstrating the convergence between subversive activity and common delinquency.
On January 30, 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked several police posts and communities in the province of Canas, department of Cuzco. This attack was part of a series of violent actions that the subversive group carried out in the high provinces of the department during the period of expanding violence. …
On January 30, 1987, the PCP-SL carried out multiple attacks against police posts and communities in the province of Canas, as part of a wider offensive. This action was part of a series of attacks that extended between February and June 1987, when the PCP-SL prioritized attacks on police posts …
On January 27, 1987, there was a massacre of peasants in the province of Chumbivilcas, department of Cuzco, perpetrated by the Civil Guard. This event occurred in the context of the highland provinces of the department, where the situation of the internal armed conflict was different from other areas. In …
Between February and April 1986, the first massacres of peasants took place in the towns of Toraya, Lucre and Colcabamba, located in the province of Aymaraes, department of Apurimac. These massacres marked the beginning of the internal armed conflict in the highland provinces of Apurimac. The process of internal armed …
In May 1984, the towns of Villa Virgen and Pomabamba were taken over by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This event is part of the expansion of violence in the department of Apurimac during 1984, when the internal armed conflict began its upward trend in the southern Andes. The seizures of these …
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Civil Guard police post in Tinta, province of Canchis, department of Cuzco. This attack was part of the first incursions of the PCP-SL in the high provinces of the department of Cuzco. The attack on Tinta occurred in the context of an escalation of subversive …
On July 27, 1983, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso attacked the Camelid Technical Research Institute located in La Raya, on the border between the departments of Cuzco and Puno. This attack marked an important moment in the expansion of the internal armed conflict into the high provinces of the department of Cuzco. …