F-2002-00718 INITIAL REQUEST

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00770168
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2022
• Case Number: F-2018-01293
• Publication Date: October 24, 2001

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Date of Request: 10/24/2001
Re: Request under the FOIA, in reply refer to Archive #
Central Intelligence Agency
Kathryn I. Dyer
FOIA and Privacy Coordinator
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Ms. Dyer:
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Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I hereby request disclosure of the following
documents for inspection and possible copying:
All records, regardless of medium, relating in whole or in part to the August 19,
1993 massacre of around 62 persons in Satipo Province (Junin Dept. ) PERU. This
massacre was linked to the Peruvian guerrilla group, Sendero Luminoso (aka The
Shining Path). This massacre is commonly referred to as the "Satipo Massacre."
(Note: We are including, for your reference, one newspaper article that discusses
the massacre.)
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Copyright 1993 Guardian Newspapers Limited
The Guardian (London)
August 21, 1993
SECTION: THE GUARDIAN FOREIGN PAGE; Pg. 12
LENGTH: 486 words
HEADLINE: SENDERO SLAUGHTERS 62;
Maoists and goldminers massacre Indians with machetes in Peru and Brazil
BYLINE: MALCOLM COAD IN SANTIAGO
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IN ONE of the bloodiest massacres carried out by Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas in 13
years of war, 62 Indians died on Thursday in simultaneous attacks on villages in Peru's remote Amazon
region, according to reports reaching Lima.
The killings were carried out in seven Ashaninka Indian communities in Junin province, 200 miles east
of Lima, said a local government leader, Lucila Shinzato.
She said the victims had been hacked to death and that 14 children were in hospital with severe wounds,
including severed ears. Ms Shinzato said the co-ordinated attacks had been carried ,out with machetes,
spears, stones and other heavy objects. "At two in the morning [the guerrillas] formed into what seemed
to be three fronts and came in simultaneously in well formed groups," she said.
The attacks were later confirmed by a local army officer and by Enrique Bernales, a former socialist
senator who heads the respected Lima-based human rights study group, Constitution and Society. There
are sometimes doubts over the identity of killers in remote areas, and Mr Bernales has a record of
criticising army abuses.
"There is no doubt. The killings were carried out by a Sendero punishment squad, apparently because the
Ashaninka had collaborated with the army.
They were carried out with incredible cruelty," said Mr Bernales, who added that at least 63 had died in
this and another attack three days before.
Ms Shinzato and Mr Bernales said the guerrillas had been aided by Ashaninka warriors. "They are even
using the Indians against their own people," said Mr Bernales.
The killings - the worst by Sendero since 48 people died in an attack on the Andean village of Huayao
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last year - came in a region hotly disputed between the Maoist guerrillas and the army. There is a long
history of violent struggle for the loyalties of the Ashaninkas.
The Satipo region of Junin, where the villages are located, provides a strategic route linking the southern
region of Ayacucho, Sendero's birthplace, with the northern region of Upper Huallaga - the main source
of coca leaf, the raw material of cocaine, where both Sendero and the army co-operate with drug
traffickers.
Last May, some 300 Ashaninkas were returned to their villages in the region by the army after being
held, apparently against their will, in Sendero training camps.
The attacks are a salutary reminder that the war in Peru, which has claimed at least 28,000 lives,
continues, despite the much publicised arrest of Sendero's founder and ideologue, Abimael Guzman, last
September and repeated claims by the president, Alberto Fujimori, that Sendero will be defeated by
1995.
"There have been recent successes against Sendero and it is possible now to envisage their defeat. But
this should be used to unite Peruvians in the cause of peace and not for political advantage," said Mr
Bernales.
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