Incident type? Date? Location? Perpetrator? Physical target? Human target? Effect on physical target? Effect on human target? Instrument? TST4-MUC4-0001 Concepcion, 23 Aug 88 (Santiago Domestic Service) -- [Report] [Miguel Angel Valdebenito] [Text] Police sources have reported that unidentified individuals planted a bomb in front of a Mormon Church in Talcahuano District. The bomb, which exploded and caused property damage worth 50,000 pesos, was placed at a chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints located at No 3856 Gomez Carreno Street. The shock wave destroyed a wall, the roof, and the windows of the church, but did not cause any injuries. Carabineros bomb squad personnel immediately went to the location and discovered that the bomb was made of 50 grams of an-fo [ammonium nitrate-fuel oil blasting agents] and a slow fuse. Carabineros special forces soon raided a large area to try to arrest those responsible for the attack, but they were unsuccessful. The police have already informed the appropriate authorities, that is, the national prosecutor and the Talcahuano criminal court, of this attack. TST4-MUC4-0002 Lima, 20 Aug 88 (EFE) -- [Excerpts] The prosecutor of the military court trying the people responsible for the killing of 124 inmates accused of terrorist activities held in the Lurigancho Prison on 19 June 1986 has asked for 25 years imprisonment for the person responsible for the killing. Prosecutor Juan Carbone Herrera requested the 25 years imprisonment for General Rolando Cabezas Alarcon of the Republican Guard "for ordering the shooting of 124 of the San Pedro prison inmates (Lurigancho)." The Lima daily EXPRESO said that the prosecutor disclosed that "after they surrendered, the inmates who had been rioting in the industrial wing of the prison were forced out through a hole in the wall to the back yard, where they were murdered by troops under the command of Republican Guard Lieutenant Oswaldo Marquina." On orders from Gen Cabezas, Lt Marquina and the men under his command opened fire on the inmates, who were killed almost instantly. Prosecutor Carbone asked 15 years for Marquina, who alone killed 22 inmates. [passage omitted] According to Carbone, no measures were taken to make the inmates stop rioting, nor was an operation planned to regain control over inmates, and the killing was not stopped by the officers who were there. Prosecutor Carbone also requested 6 years for General Jorge Rabanal, who was in charge of the operation, "because he could have prevented the massacre had he coordinated actions with Gen Cabezas." TST4-MUC4-0003 Lima, 23 Aug 88 (EFE) -- [Text] Today Peruvian military officials established a curfew in Tingo Maria because of the strike by peasants and coca growers to protest the destruction of their coca fields. Since 20 August the strikers have been blocking the road linking Huanuco with Tingo Maria, Huanuco Department, in the northern jungle where there is drug traffic activity. The strikers also blocked the Marginal de la Selva Highway, isolating Tocache, Uchiza, Juanjui, and Aucayacu, which are well-known centers for drug trafficking. The strike is supported by the Shining Path, according to reports disclosed in Lima today. The coca growers oppose the use of the herbicide called "Spike," which the government is planning to use to destroy the clandestine coca plantations. According to unofficial sources, a group of terrorists linked to drug trafficking reportedly wounded a police officer in an attack on a police helicopter. Terrorists also attacked a Civil Guard post in Nuevo Progreso, north of Tingo Maria, Ucayali Department. TST4-MUC4-0010 Santiago, 31 Jul 88 (EL MERCURIO) -- [Text] Rancagua -- The National Vanguard offices in this city were attacked on 29 July at 2220. Unidentified individuals detonated a bomb that damaged the windows of the National Vanguard offices and those of the neighboring houses. TST4-MUC4-0016 San Salvador, 5 Sep 88 (Canal Doce Television) -- [Report] [Alfredo Villareal] [Excerpts] Early this morning, two powerful bombs rocked San Salvador's metropolitan area. According to reports, the bombs were planted by FMLN urban guerrillas. The powerful bombs were planted in two government vehicles, license plates 6906 and 6895, used by the Rural Basic Health Plan Section of the Health Ministry. The destroyed cars were parked at First Street West and 21st Avenue North. The bombs, planted under the car hoods, shattered the windshields and destroyed the car bodies. Strangely enough, the rebels did not leave leaflets, as is their custom. [passage omitted] In a communique read this afternoon over the phone, the FMLN General Command claimed responsibility for the destruction of the two vehicles. They said this is part of the urban guerrillas' latest campaign to sabotage government property. TST4-MUC4-0017 San Salvador, 17 Sep 88 (DIARIO LATINO) -- [Text] In recent military operations, Armed Forces units killed one rebel, seized 45,000 cartridges and other war materiel, and destroyed an underground hideout. The terrorist died in a clash with 6th Infantry Brigade units. The soldiers had detected an FMLN column deploying near La Arana Hill in Estanzuelas, Usulutan Department. The 1st Infantry Brigade also reported that Libertad Battalion troops found an underground warehouse near the El Castano farm in Nejapa, north of San Salvador. In the warehouse, the brigade units found 45,000 cartridges of various calibers and a large amount of material for manufacturing explosives. In addition, Atlacatl Battalion counterinsurgency units recently seized 15 fragmentation grenades, 5 Claymore mines, 5 booby traps, 10 units of TNT, loaded cartridge clips, and 7 knapsacks containing civilian clothing, olive-green uniforms, and communist propaganda. These items were apparently left behind by wounded rebels who managed to flee after a clash with the battalion members at the foot of El Chino Hill in San Francisco Morazan, Chalatenango Department. Furthermore, 2d Infantry Brigade units patrolling the zone of El Rodeo in El Congo, Santa Ana Department, discovered a 200-meter underground hideout big enough to conceal at least 250 insurgents. The brigade units proceeded to destroy the hideout. TST4-MUC4-0019 Lima, 22 Sep 88 (Television Peruana) -- [Excerpts] Two terrorist attacks were carried out in Lima last night. The Lima Agrarian Unit [Unidad Agraria de Lima] and the Economy Ministry were the targets of the insane terrorist actions. A powerful bomb exploded in the front of Departmental Agrarian Unit No 6, located on block No 5 of Uruguay Avenue. The attack came at approximately 2230 last night. Members of the Civil Guard, the Republican Guard Antiexplosives Brigade, and the Peruvian Investigative Police went to the site of the explosion. The members of the Republican Guard Antiexplosives Brigade are investigating to determine the magnitude of the bomb used in this attack. [recorded passage omitted] The Economy and Finance Ministry building was another target of the terrorists' actions this evening. The terrorists planted a bomb inside a vehicle belonging to Emol Entero. The bomb went off at approximately 2230. [recorded passage omitted] TST4-MUC4-0021 Bogota, 22 Sep 88 (Emisoras Caracol Network) -- [Text] Three new terrorist attacks were carried out early this morning, at an airport in Barranquilla, at the Communist Party headquarters in Florencia, and at the Cerro Azul military installations in Uraba. The police confirmed that unidentified individuals armed with machineguns attacked the Colombian Air Force installations in the capital of Atlantico. There were no casualties. The Malambo area, close to the Barranquilla International Airport, where the air base is located, was immediately militarized. Guards at the site repelled the attack, which was apparently staged by guerrillas. Similarly, it was learned that a bomb exploded today at the Communist Party headquarters in the capital of Caqueta, causing considerable property damage. It was immediately announced that no one had been injured or killed in the extremist action. It was also announced that suspected subversives staged another attack on the installations of the battalion stationed in Uraba at Cerro Azul, near Turbo. These terrorist attacks took place 1 day after the serious attack launched at the 2d Army Division headquarters in Bucaramanga, which resulted in seven people injured and considerable property damage, affecting nine homes. TST4-MUC4-0022 Pisco, 23 Sep 88 (Domestic Service) -- [Report] [Jesdus Diaz] [Text] Last night in San Clemente District, 9 km north of Pisco, a group of terrorists dynamited machinery belonging to Albolones Peruanos, Inc. Approximately 20 terrorists barged into the plant armed with submachineguns and Molotov cocktails and overpowered some 20 workers in order to dynamite some machinery. After doing so, the terrorists fled from the site. Members of the security forces responded and asked for support from the city of Ica. TST4-MUC4-0028 Santiago, 3 Oct 88 (Domestic Service) -- [Text] A terrorist attack, in which Czechoslovak bombs were used, has destroyed four high tension towers in the central region. This attack has cut the electricity supply to a vast region between Copiapo and Santiago. The blackout occurred on Saturday night, 1 October, and lasted for approximately one-half hour in the metropolitan region. According to ENDESA [National Electric Power, Inc.], one of the towers knocked down was located on km 24 of the Melipilla-Rapel highway. The tower, located in the Maitenes sector, is one of the main towers of the high tension network. Another tower destroyed by the terrorists was tower No 430 in the Itahua-Alto Jahuel sector, which is connected to the main electricity network. In addition to these four destroyed towers, other explosions were heard that same night in Santiago. They were caused by bombs planted by terrorists who seek to frighten the population. According to police sources, the bombs used to cause so much damage are powerful Czechoslovak-made plastic bombs, of the same type that were found among the clandestine arsenals smuggled into the country by the Marxist leftists at Carrizal Bajo. The terrorists also used TNT in their bomb attacks. TST4-MUC4-0029 Lima, 2 Oct 88 (AFP) -- [Text] Terrorists of the Maoist Shining Path group during the past few hours killed a university professor, a policeman, and a pedestrian, while the police authorities reported today that an armed attack against the U.S. Embassy in Lima has been frustrated. In the central Andean town of Huancayo, 350 km east of Lima, professor Herminio Parra, who has criticized subversive movements, was shot at the door of his house early in the morning on Saturday by four terrorists who claimed to be his students, his widow Rita Avendano reported. In Paucarbambilla, a locality in Huanuco, two Shining Path members this past weekend machinegunned a civil guard and a pedestrian at the door of a police club, and detonated a car bomb, police sources have reported. They added that the attackers left communist propaganda at the site.