La Cantuta: Chronicle of the Prosecutorial Investigation

The petition refers to the alleged "violation of the human rights of Professor Hugo Muñoz Sánchez and students Bertila Lozano Torres, Dora Oyague Fierro, Luis Enrique Ortiz Perea, Armando Richard Amaro Cóndor, Robert Edgar Teodoro Espinoza, Heráclides Pablo Meza, Felipe Flores Chipana, Marcelino Rosales Cárdenas and Juan Gabriel Mariños Figueroa [...] as well as their family members," due to the alleged abduction of the presumed victims, said to have occurred at the Universidad Nacional de Educación "Enrique Guzmán y Valle" – La Cantuta, Lima, in the early morning hours of July 18, 1992, which allegedly involved members of the Peruvian Army, "who [allegedly] abducted the [presumed] victims and subsequently disappeared them and summarily executed some of them"; as well as due to the alleged impunity surrounding these events, given that no diligent investigation has been carried out. The Commission alleges that "the case reflects the abuses committed by the military forces, as well as the systematic practice of human rights violations, including forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions, carried out by state agents acting on orders from military and police commanders, as has been highlighted by the Inter-American Commission since the early 1990s and by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru." (Excerpt from the preface).