Person

General Nicolás Hermoza Ríos

Appears in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru

Timeline Events 2

  1. La Cantuta Massacre and Subsequent Political and Military Actions

    In 1993, tensions rose in Peru following the disappearance and extrajudicial execution of a professor and ten students from the Universidad Enrique Guzmán y Valle, known as the 'La Cantuta' case. General Nicolás Hermoza Ríos and intelligence advisor Vladimiro Montesinos were accused of maintaining a paramilitary group responsible for this …

    Peru Página 237
    #la cantuta #human rights #Peru #military #fujimori #Hermoza Ríos #montesinos #paramilitary

  2. Statement by General Hermoza Ríos denying Army involvement in La Cantuta

    General Nicolás Hermoza Ríos went before the investigative commission and emphatically denied that the Army had programmed and executed the operation during which the students and the teacher from La Cantuta were detained. This initial denial was later contradicted by the general himself.

    Congreso de la República, Lima, Perú Informe CVR, página 901
    #la-cantuta #fuerzas-armadas #hermoza-ríos #negación #encubrimiento

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