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In June 1989, the mining businessmen of Huancavelica used the media to accuse all the leaders of the mining unions in the region of being terrorists. This public accusation provoked the military to arrest and torture the accused union leaders. The accusations took place in a context of labor conflict …
Priests Jorge Alvarez Calderon and Luis Hernot, from Lima, were arrested by members of the national police at the retreat house in Huaura. The bishopric of Huacho, by means of a communiqué, rejected any attempt to link the priests with possible terrorist actions.
In 1989, a person was captured in Plaza San Martin in Lima and taken to DINCOTE (National Directorate against Terrorism). The person was accused of terrorism and was detained for 14 days. This type of arbitrary detention was part of the actions of law enforcement during the internal armed conflict. …
In Ayacucho, the priest Carlos Gallagher, Pilar Coll (executive secretary of the National Human Rights Coordinating Committee), two social workers from CEAS, Reiner Uhle (German) from SERPAJ and Guadalupe Callcunto (vice-president of the Association of Relatives detained in the emergency zone) were detained under accusation of being terrorists. After efforts …