Last hearing of the Uchuraccay massacre trial
Last hearing of the oral trial in Ayacucho against three peasants accused of the massacre of journalists in Uchuraccay, after ten months of proceedings. The trial was later transferred to Lima at the request of the victims' families.
On July 24, 1985, the last hearing of the oral trial against three peasants accused of the massacre of eight journalists in Uchuraccay was held. The oral trial had begun on September 28, 1984 and lasted ten months. The defendants present were Dionisio Morales Pérez, Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe, the only ones arrested out of the seventeen community members accused. The trial was marked by serious communication difficulties due to the fact that the defendants were Quechua speakers and questions had to be translated. Subsequently, on July 31, 1985, the relatives of the journalists challenged all the members of the court, and in September the transfer of the trial to Lima was declared well-founded.