FBIS3-52060 "drlat019_r_94004"
FBIS-LAT-94-019 Document Type:Daily Report 29 Jan 1994
Peru

* Terrorist Attacks in November Dropped Drastically

94SM0180A Lima DESCO SPECIAL REPORT in Spanish Nov 93 pp 10-11 94SM0180A Lima DESCO SPECIAL REPORT Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [DESCO SPECIAL REPORT No. 31: "Political Violence in Peru Today," issued by Peru's Center for Development Studies and Promotion (DESCO)] [Text] November has seen less political violence than almost any other time during the 13 years of war. During this month, there were 36 subversive actions, resulting in 42 deaths: six military personnel, one police officer, 11 civilians, and 18 alleged subversives [as published]. In a way, it was predictable that Shining Path [SL], especially, would pull back in November, after launching a larger number of actions for two months in a row in September and October. This month's actions occurred primarily in Lima, which is still in first place with 20 attacks (56 percent). SL focused most of its bombings on private businesses. There were three car bombings during the month, two of them in commercial areas in Miraflores and Camacho, while the third one went off near an Army barracks. The second-largest number of assaults took place in the jungle region, with eight actions (22 percent). In the province of Leoncio Prado, there were six clashes, two of them open confrontations between subversives and security forces. The other four battles arose out of countersubversion actions by the Army. And in Leoncio Prado and Huanuco, subversives carried out annihilation attacks against civilians. The central region was in third place out of four, with five assaults (14 percent). Two of these actions were successive confrontations involving the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) and the Army in Chanchamayo Province. The other two were SL bombings in Huancayo Province. Last place in terms of subversive actions was taken by the northern region, with three assaults (8 percent). Two of the incidents involved the MRTA; in one they jammed the radios of the Chimbote National Police and in the other they rescued two of their members as they left the Chimbote courthouse.
Terrorist Attacks by Region: November
- 1. Lima 56% - 2. Jungle 22% - 3. Central 14% - 4. Northern 8% As for the number of casualties, the central region occupied first place with 24 (57 percent). All were members of the MRTA, killed in clashes with Army troops in the province of Chanchamayo. In second place was the jungle region, with 14 casualties (33 percent). Six were Army soldiers who died in two battles with SL in Leoncio Prado Province. In addition, eight civilians were killed in SL incursions in the provinces of Huanuco and Leoncio Prado. In third and last place were the northern and Lima regions, which tied at two deaths (5 percent) each. In the northern region, an incursion by Shining Path in the village of Huayllapampa in Recuay Province resulted in the death of a lieutenant governor and a teacher. In Lima, a petty officer in the National Police was gunned down from a car in the Cercado district, and a woman was killed when an explosive device went off in a bank office in San Juan de Lurigancho.
Victims by Region: November 1993
- 1. Central 57% - 2. Jungle 33% - 3. Lima 5% - 4. Northern 5% There were no subversive actions in the principal region. The National Police exhibited 10 alleged members of SL in Huamanga and another nine in Huancavelica. Finally, in the mid-northern region, another eight alleged SL's were exhibited. Casualties and Attacks by Region in November Region Casualties Attacks Military Police Civilians Subversives Total Lima 0 1 1 0 2 20 Northern 0 0 2 0 2 3 Wari Central 0 0 0 24 24 5 Jungle 6 0 8 0 14 8 Total 6 1 11 24 42 36