Prosecutor requests withdrawal of indictment in Uchuraccay case
Prosecutor Oscar Guerrero surprisingly requested the withdrawal of the indictment against the three peasants prosecuted for the Uchuraccay massacre, arguing lack of evidence of their participation. The request was dismissed by the judge in the face of an outcry from the victims' families.
During the hearing on March 26, 1985 in the oral trial for the Uchuraccay massacre, prosecutor Oscar Guerrero, to the astonishment of the audience, requested the withdrawal of the accusation against the three accused peasants (Dionisio Morales Perez, Mariano Ccasani Gonzales and Simeon Auccatoma Quispe) and their immediate release. The prosecutor argued that it had not been possible to prove the participation of the accused in the massacre of the eight journalists on January 26, 1983. This request generated an angry protest from the relatives of the journalists present in the courtroom. The judge called for calm to be restored and immediately dismissed the prosecutor's request. Subsequently, on June 21, 1985, the withdrawal of the prosecutor's accusation was declared inadmissible.