Qualla: Accomarca massacre https://qualla.com/accomarca-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/m/e/j/accomarca-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Accomarca massacre https://qualla.com/accomarca-massacre Accomarca massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/accomarca-massacre/ Photo credit Jfowks, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two twelve-year-old girls, Teófila Ochoa Lizarbe and Cirila Pulido Baldeón, saw and heard everything. They watched as soldiers went house to house in the hamlet of Quebrada de Huancayoc, dragging villagers from their homes, beating them with rifle butts, and herding them into buildings. They heard the gunfire, and then the screams, as the soldiers set the buildings ablaze. On August 14, 1985, the Peruvian Army killed approximately 69 unarmed civilians — men, women, and children — in the peasant village of Accomarca, in the Ayacucho region of Peru. The two girls survived to testify to what had happened.

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/m/e/j/accomarca-massacre-wp/6mej-accomarca-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Accomarca massacre: Orders from Above https://qualla.com/accomarca-massacre/ Photo credit Jfowks, CC BY-SA 4.0. The massacre did not emerge from chaos. It was planned in a meeting attended by Second Lieutenant Telmo Hurtado Hurtado, Lieutenant Juan Rivera Rondón, and Major José Daniel Williams Zapata, commander of Lince Company. The Army's Chief of the Political-Military Command for the em...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/m/e/j/accomarca-massacre-wp/6mej-accomarca-massacre-orders-from-above.mp3 0:06 2 full Accomarca massacre: What Happened in the Quebrada https://qualla.com/accomarca-massacre/ Photo credit Jfowks, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the morning of August 14, the two patrol units moved into Quebrada de Huancayoc. Rivera Rondón's troops blocked escape routes while Hurtado's soldiers swept through the settlement. Villagers were pulled from their homes and beaten. They were lined up and forced into houses whe...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/m/e/j/accomarca-massacre-wp/6mej-accomarca-massacre-what-happened-in-the-quebrada.mp3 0:06 3 full Accomarca massacre: Amnesty and Escape https://qualla.com/accomarca-massacre/ Photo credit Jfowks, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1993, the Peruvian military justice system convicted Telmo Hurtado of abusing his authority and giving false statements — not for the killings themselves. The conviction was a gesture toward accountability that stopped well short of it. When the Fujimori government granted bla...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/m/e/j/accomarca-massacre-wp/6mej-accomarca-massacre-amnesty-and-escape.mp3 0:06 4 full Accomarca massacre: Justice in a Foreign Court https://qualla.com/accomarca-massacre/ Photo credit Jfowks, CC BY-SA 4.0. The lawsuit accused Hurtado of extrajudicial killings, torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. In 2008, a judge in Miami found Hurtado responsible for the massacre and ordered him to pay $37 million in damages to the victims. It was a civil ruling, not a criminal convic...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/m/e/j/accomarca-massacre-wp/6mej-accomarca-massacre-justice-in-a-foreign-court.mp3 0:06 5 full Accomarca massacre: The Weight of the Andean Silence https://qualla.com/accomarca-massacre/ Photo credit Jfowks, CC BY-SA 4.0. Accomarca sits in the Ayacucho region, the heartland of Peru's internal conflict, where the Shining Path launched its insurgency in 1980 and where the state's response was most devastating. The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission documented hundreds of similar episodes a...

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