Attending the burial of a subversive had fatal results for some villagers in the towns of Humaya and Chambaza, in the Huaura Valley, Huaura Province, Lima. Six of them were murdered on May 3, 1991, only days after the burial, by members of the army based out of the Andahuasi Military Base.

The victims:
In Humaya:
Javier Alberto Ipanaque Marcelo
Guillermo Salinas Conde
Fidel Romero Conde

En Chambara:
Uriol Tafur Ayala
Víctor Manuel Briceño García
Eusebio Aniceto Garay Anaya

Type of violation: Extrajudicial Execution

The Acts:
On April 23, 1992, at Kilometer 153 of Pan-American Highway North, a Avícola Antahuampa Consortium truck in which military personnel were traveling was ambushed by a subversive detachment of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). The action killed four soldiers dead wounded others. Similarly, one of the attackers was killed. The dead MRTA member was a native of Humaya village, a small settlement between the cities of Huaura and Sayán.

Three days later, the burial of the subversive was attended not only by his family members but – as is the custom in that area – the local villagers from his town. Upon arriving at the cemetery, the funeral procession was intercepted by a combined force of the army and the National Police in a violent manner. Forty people were detained and brought to the Andahuasi Military Base and later the branches of the Technical Police at Huacho.

The villagers of the area believed that the incident with the soldiers had ended there. They were wrong. On May 3, 1992, between 12:40 and 3:00 am, several armed men dressed in army uniforms, some with bullet-proof vests and faces covered with black ski masks, entered the villages of Humaya and Chambara, searched for various people by their names, broke into said person’s houses, and killed them.

In Humaya they made Milagros Ipanaque Marcelo identify the house of her brother, Javier Ipanaque Marcelo, who they killed with two gunshots. They did the same with Guillermo Salinas Conde and Fidel Romero Conde.

In Chambara, they executed Uriel Tafur Ayala, Víctor Manuel Briceño García, and Eusebio Aniceto Garay Anaya.

Two uniformed men searched for Eusebio Garay in his house. After violently throwing him out of his house, they shot him and left in the same vehicle that they arrived in. Víctor Briceño was also violently brought out of his house and shot in the right temple.

To make it seem as if the crime had been committed by a terrorist organization, in both locations where the murders took place they painted graffiti on the walls. However, the slogans painted did not correspond with those used by the subversive groups. After the summary executions the killers left for the road that leads to the military barracks.

The family members of the victims denounced the acts before the corresponding prosecutor’s office, but the case was never judicially investigated. The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Huacho arraigned the provisional archiving of the case for a lack of having named and captured the authors of the crime.

The implementation of the unconstitutional amnesty laws 26479 and 26492 temporarily stopped all possibility of a trial, but the case was reopened when the laws were thrown out and the Prosecutor’s Office Specializing in Cases of Extrajudicial Executions, Forced Disappearances, and Tortures was established.