Murder of Indalecio Pomatanta
Navy doused 17-year-old Indalecio Pomatanta in San Alejandro with gasoline and burned alive
On April 2, 1995, members of the Navy entered the town of San Alejandro as part of Operation Shark IV. Between 5:30 and 6 in the morning they arrived at the Pomatanta family's home looking for 17-year-old Indalecio. After interrogating and brutally beating him and asking him for weapons, they doused his body with gasoline and set him on fire. Indalecio was taken to the Regional Hospital of Pucallpa with 65% of his body burned. After three days of agony he died. Lieutenant Jorge Rabanal Calderon led the operation.