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(ANSA) – LIMA, JUNE 19 – Ten retired Peruvian troopers have been sentenced to between six and 12 years in jail for crimes in opposition to humanity after being discovered responsible of the systematic rape of 9 ladies, typically minors, amongst 1984 and 1985, through the inside armed battle in opposition to the Maoist guerrillas of Sendero Luminoso. This ruling places an finish to 5 years of proceedings in a case that has turn out to be emblematic in Peru, being the primary to guage sexual violence dedicated by troopers. Not one of the ten condemned males, represented by their legal professionals, had been current on the studying of the sentence. Three different troopers had been convicted in absentia. The systematic rapes started in 1984, when the Peruvian military established a base close to the Andean cities of Manta and Vilca, within the southern area of Huancavelica, one in every of Peru’s poorest. A few of the victims had been minors and 5 of them grew to become pregnant, their legal professionals recalled. (HANDLE).
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