Dionisio Morales Pérez, president of the Uchuraccay community, was arrested on May 17, 1983 while he was hospitalized in Huamanga. He was one of only three community members detained in the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre of January 26, 1983, in which eight journalists and two other people died. …
Simeón Aucatoma Quispe, varayoc of the Uchuraccay community, was arrested on July 20, 1983 as one of only three community members captured in the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre of January 26, 1983. He was accused along with sixteen other community members for the murder of eight journalists. During …
The Supreme Court dismissed a jurisdictional dispute raised by a police judge in the case of the murder of Jesús Oropeza. This decision allowed the case to continue to be heard by the common courts and not to be transferred to the military justice system, which was a common practice …
Almost a week after the Supreme Court decision ordering that the case of Jaime Ayala Sulca be heard by the ordinary courts, a military spokesman announced that the person responsible, Captain Alvaro Artaza Adrianzén, had been kidnapped. This announcement was seen as a maneuver to prevent the officer from facing …
The Supreme Court confirmed the sentences imposed on the seven members of the police prosecuted for the murder of Jesús Oropeza. This confirmation represented one of the few cases where members of law enforcement were effectively sanctioned for human rights violations during the internal armed conflict.
Simeón Auccatoma Quispe, a member of the Uchuraccay community and one of the three defendants arrested for the massacre of journalists on January 26, 1983, died in prison of tuberculosis contracted in the Lurigancho prison. During the oral trial, Auccatoma Quispe was extremely affected and submissive, bursting into tears several …
On November 13, 1992, the provincial prosecutor filed a formal complaint against María Magdalena Monteza Benavides for the crime of terrorism in the form of collaboration. This act took place after Magdalena was detained, tortured and allegedly raped by members of the Army. On the same day a forensic medical …
A commando of 14 MRTA members stormed the residence of Japanese Ambassador Morihisa Aoki on December 17, 1996. The hostage crisis lasted for more than four months. On April 22, 1997, the crisis ended with a military intervention that left 17 victims: Supreme Court member Carlos Giusti, two Army officers, …
The hostage crisis that began on December 17, 1996, when a commando of 14 MRTA members stormed the residence of Japanese Ambassador Morihisa Aoki, ended with a military intervention. The operation resulted in 17 fatalities: Supreme Court vowel Carlos Giusti, two Army officers and the 14 emerretistas who had stormed …
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