Peru military officers to be tried for human rights violations

At least 80 ex-military officers will be tried for human rights violations committed during Peru’s internal armed conflict in the 1980s and early 1990s. The head of Peru’s National Criminal Court, Judge Pablo Talavera, told Radio San Borja that oral proceedings will begin this year against the perpetrators of massacres in the towns of Accomarca [...]

Survivor of Barrios Altos massacre testifies at Fujimori trial

The only survivor of the Barrios Altos massacre testified today at the human rights trial of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori. Tomás Livia Ortega was paralyzed when the Colina group death squad killed 15 people, including his wife, during a barbecue in a tenement in Lima’s Barrios Altos district in 1991. According to Agencia Andina, Livia [...]

Peru ex-general held on human rights charges

The former commander of the Peruvian Army’s Special Forces Division, General Luis Pérez Document, will remain imprisoned as he awaits trial on first degree murder and forced disappearance charges. According to daily La República, the decision by the Third Anticorruption Court yesterday was based on the severity of the charges and the possibility Pérez would [...]