Violated childhood: Ayacucho 1980-1982

Abstract

It presents the various mechanisms used by the PCP-SL, in the city of Huamanga to incorporate minors into its political proposal and the response of the Peruvian State. A group of judicial files from the Ayacucho’s Juvenile Court (1980-1982) was reviewed, which shows the detention of these minors by the Police and their subsequent transfer to the Juvenile Court where they were processed. Through the judicial files, the spaces where the PCP-SL captured the minors (educational centers, markets, sports fields or fields, pre-university academies and neighborhoods of Huamanga) and the reasons why the minors committed themselves to the preaching of the PCP-SL were identified.