Members of DIRCOTE captured Lucero Cumpa Miranda, MRTA leader, in the Lima district of Magdalena del Mar. This was her second capture, as she had previously been rescued on March 11 by a violent action of MRTA while she was being transferred to the Judicial Power. The rescue of Cumpa …
On March 11, 1991, an MRTA commando carried out one of the most impressive and violent actions in Lima to rescue Lucero Cumpa Miranda. The MRTA leader was being transferred to the Judicial Power along with Nelly Evans Risco, a member of the PCP-SL, in a truck belonging to the …
General EP (r) Adolfo Alvarado Fournier was replaced as Minister of the Interior by General EP (r) Víctor Malca Villanueva on March 15, 1991. This ministerial change came about as a consequence of two critical events that generated political pressure: the letter bomb attack against Augusto Zúñiga Paz, a COMISEDH …
Augusto Zúñiga Paz, lawyer for the Human Rights Commission (COMISEDH) and sponsor of the disappeared student Ernesto Castillo Páez, was the victim of a letter bomb attack. The attack caused the amputation of his left forearm. This attack occurred in a context of political violence and was one of the …
On November 10, 1991, the Senate Human Rights Commission summoned former Ministers of the Interior and Defense, Generals Juan Briones Davila and Victor Malca Villanueva, to report on the Barrios Altos massacre. The ministers presented three hypotheses about the perpetrators (Shining Path, MRTA or outside organizations) but categorically denied the …
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