Peruvian Justice Sentences Vladimiro Montesinos to 22 Years in Prison

A criminal court in Lima convicted Vladimiro Montesinos on Tuesday — the de facto head of the Armed Forces and former advisor to President Alberto Fujimori during the dictatorship — to 22 years in prison as the perpetrator of the enforced disappearance of two students from the Universidad Nacional del Callao in 1993, Martín Roca and Keneth Anzualdo, and professor Justiniano Najarro, kidnapped that same year. The Segunda Sala Penal Liquidadora de Lima classified the acts as crimes against humanity. The ruling states that it is proven that the victims were detained and taken to cells in the basement of the Servicio de Inteligencia del Ejército (SIE): there they were tortured and murdered, and their bodies were subsequently incinerated in the SIE oven installed for that purpose. Montesinos is already serving a 25-year sentence. September 29, 2016.