Former Peru spy chief given another jail sentence for 1993 forced disappearances
Former Peru spy chief given another jail sentence for 1993 forced disappearances
Conviction of Vladimiro Montesinos, who executed two students and a professor in federal agency basement, ‘proves there was state terrorism’, victim’s father said
Dan Collyns in Lima
@yachay_dc
Wednesday 28 September 2016 16.23 EDT
Peru’s former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos has been sentenced to 22 years in jail for the forced disappearance of two students and a university professor, whose bodies were burned in the basement of the country’s intelligence agency.
The students, Kenneth Anzualdo and Martin Roca, and professor Justiniano Najarro were tortured, interrogated then executed in 1993, the court found.
Montesinos, 71, who is already serving multiple sentences for human rights crimes, corruption and arms and drugs trafficking, is widely regarded to have been the éminence grise to the former president Alberto Fujimori, who is himself serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and authorising death squad killings.
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Human rights groups have welcomed the ruling as confirmation that a secret detention centre existed at the army headquarters in Lima – known as el Pentagonito, or the little Pentagon – and that an oven was used to cremate the remains of victims on its grounds.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/peru-spy-vladimiro-montesinos-sentenced-forced-disappearances
LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141583496
