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Simulating a terrorist attack, they broke into the homes of the victims in order to arrest them. To date, these people remain missing. The Second National Criminal Prosecutors Office Specialized in Human Rights and Interculturality has managed to obtain the conviction of two members of the Peruvian Army, former general Hugo Martinez A., former political-military chief of the Huamanga Front in 1991, and former officer Marco A. Aguilar B., S-2 Intelligence Assistant of the Pampa Cangallo Counterinsurgency Battalion.
Both received sentences of 17 and 16 years of imprisonment, respectively, as authors of the crime of forced disappearance, against the mayor of Chuschi, Manuel Pacotaype Chaupin; the secretary of the Chuschi Council, Martin Cayllahua Galindo; the Lieutenant Governor of Chuschi, Marcelo Cabana Tucno; and the teenager Isaias H. V.
According to the prosecution, on March 14, 1991, a military patrol made up of 25 soldiers under the command of Lieutenant EP Collins Collantes Guerra entered the Chuschi Community, in Ayacucho, and, after coordinating with the local police commissioner and simulating a terrorist attack, they broke into the homes of the three local authorities mentioned above and the minor, to proceed to arrest them and forcibly remove them from their homes.
The next day, after complaining to the Chuschi police headquarters, the families learned that the detainees were being taken to the Pampa Cangallo Base, managing to verify that the detainees were entered into said military compound through the back door. After this event, nothing more was known about the whereabouts of the four victims, who are currently still missing.
As part of the conviction, the payment of civil compensation of S/ 55,000 was set in favor of the heirs of each of the victims (for a total of S/ 220,000). Furthermore, and in light of the seriousness of the events and the States obligation to establish the final whereabouts of the victims and repair the damage caused, it was ordered that appropriate measures be adopted for the search, exhumation, identification and dignified restitution of the remains of these four citizens of Chuschi.
It should be noted that this conviction is the third in relation to these events that occurred in Chuschi, thereby fulfilling the obligations assumed by the State and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the attention of cases that violate human rights.
