The Assault of Ayacucho prison was an incident in the Peruvian city of Ayacucho, also known as Huamanga, on March 2, 1982. A group of 150 armed terrorists...

servicepeople who carried out the operation were awarded the Military Order of Ayacucho, Grand Cross grade, by the Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski,...

one of the main responses. In 1983, one of the first peasant uprisings occurred in Huaycho (a small village in the Ayacucho Region) took the rest of the...

Ayacucho (Spanish pronunciation: [aʝaˈkutʃo] , Quechua: Ayak'uchu, derived from the words aya ("death" or "soul") and k'uchu ("corner") in honour of the...

province of Ayacucho. On 17 May 1980—the eve of the presidential elections—members of the Shining Path burned ballot boxes in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho. The...

contacting others from prison following this incident. In 2018, members of ASPRET formed an alliance with the Militarized Communist Party of Peru, called the...

into the prison. In two hours the hostages were released, and two people had died. At midnight, June 19, the assault on the prison on the island of El Frontón...

in an assault that claimed the lives of 4 police officers. In April 2009, the Shining Path ambushed and killed 13 government soldiers in Ayacucho. Grenades...

doors built to withstand the impact of a grenade; therefore it was easily defendable from within. News of the MRTA assault caused the Lima Stock Exchange to...

d'état 1981 — Paquisha War. 1980 — Internal conflict in Peru 1982 Assault of Ayacucho prison 1992 1992 Peruvian coup d'état 1997 Operation Chavín de Huántar...