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Peruvian President Fernando Belaúnde Terry called general elections for April 14, 1985, and turned to the armed forces in response to the bloody offensive by the Maoist terrorist organization Sendero …
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In mid-September 1984, a witness in the Uchuraccay case was detained by a group of Marines and taken to the Tambo military barracks. There she was tortured and raped, despite having the guarantees of the Peruvian Episcopate and the Ministry of the Interior due to her status as a witness …
In 1983, during the State of Emergency in Peru, a Habeas Corpus case was filed on behalf of JMM, who was detained by the Investigative Police of the Sub-Dircote for alleged terrorism. The judge evaluated the reasonableness of the measures adopted and concluded that the detention was disproportionate and unnecessary …