Criminal Record of the Colina Paramilitary Group

The members of the sinister detachment committed crimes against humanity, and now Villa Stein says they are common offenses. The Sala Penal Especial Permanente de la Corte Suprema ordered the removal of the charge of crimes against humanity and the reduction of sentences for those implicated in the judicial proceedings for the Barrios Altos massacre and the extrajudicial killings of Pedro Yauri and the peasants of the Santa valley. The Grupo Colina was a death squad whose members operated in Peru in various detachments from the 1980s until the early 1990s, implicated in human rights violations. The group was led by Peruvian Army captain Santiago Martín Rivas. The group was part of a strategy known as Low-Intensity Warfare, and it remains under debate whether that strategy was or was not a policy of the government of the day.