Tag: Abimael Guzmán

• Acusados por atentado que dejó 25 muertos, serán interrogados el jueves

El Segundo Juzga­do Penal Nacio­nal dispuso el inte­rrogatorio del líder de Sendero Luminoso (SL), Abimael Guzmán para este jueves, en el marco del jui­cio oral que enfrenta por el caso del atentado de Tara­ta cometido por sus hues­tes, el 16 de julio de 1992, y que dejó 25 muertos y 150 heridos.

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© Exitosa DiarioLa audiencia que se rea­lizará en la sala de la Base Naval del Callao empeza­rá a las diez de la mañana, y Guzmán será el primer interrogado, luego segui­rá Óscar Ramírez Durand “Feliciano” y concluirá con Florindo Eleuterio Flores Hala “Artemio”, exjefe te­rrorista del Huallaga.

Ellos son junto a Elena Iparraguirre, Margie Cla­vo, Osmán Morote, Mar­got Liendo, Florentino Ce­rrón, Edmundo Cox, Laura Zambrano, Elizabeth Cár­denas y Moisés Límaco, parte de la cúpula de SL. Son acusados por la Fiscalía como autores mediatos del ataque te­rrorista de Tarata, en Mi­raflores, ejecutado con dos coches bomba carga­dos con 500 kilos de ex­plosivos.

En la pasada audien­cia, la titular del referido juzgado, Mercedes Ca­ballero, declaró fundado el pedido de prisión pre­ventiva para la mayoría de la cúpula de la agru­pación terrorista, aunque rechazó el pedido de acusación por narcotrá­fico contra ella.

Al ser consultado, Alfre­do Crespo, abogado de Guzmán, insistió en la inocencia de su patroci­nado al re­ferir que el atentado en “Tarata” fue consu­mado por un destacamen­to del comité zonal centro de SL, “cuyos autores directos ya fueron condenados”.

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Además del interrogatorio a los principales cabecillas de SL, se ha programado para este juicio la visualización de la entrevista que brindó Guzmán y su pareja Elena Iparraguirre a Montesinos.

Publicado en Exitosa Diario el 16 de marzo de 2014

by Dan Collyns

After eight years hidden from the public view, Abimael Guzmán, 79, the one-time Shining Path leader, has appeared in court to face charges for the bombing of an upmarket street in Peru’s capital Lima 22 years ago.

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Abimael Guzmán, founder of Peru’s Shining Path, and his
wife Elena Iparraguirre, attend the trial in Lima
© ReutersAlready serving a life sentence, only Guzmán’s grey hair and hunched figure was visible through the bullet-proof glass separating the gallery from the courtroom in the high-security naval base prison in Lima’s port of Callao, where he is held.

Once the most feared man in Peru, Presidente Gonzalo, as he was known to his fanatical followers, unleashed a bloody internecine conflict in which 69,280 people were killed, according to Peru’s truth and reconciliation commission. It concluded that the Shining Path was the main perpetrator.

Far from the defiant fist-waving figure of his last court appearance in 2006, Guzman was a diminished figure who did not turn to face the press and twice declined to address the court.

Also on trial were Guzmán’s wife, Elena Iparraguirre – his one-time second-in-command – and nine other members of the guerrilla group’s leadership, or central committee, including Comrade Artemio, who was captured in 2011 after more than two decades hiding in Peru’s jungle.

In July 1992, about half a tonne of explosives were detonated in two car bombs in Tarata, a narrow one-block street, in the prosperous Miraflores neighbourhood, killing 25 people and injuring more than 150. It was the Shining Path’s single most deadly attack on the capital. Two months later, on 12 September 1992, Guzmán was captured.

Guzmán’s lawyer, Alfredo Crespo, said his client denied the charges: “There isn’t a single piece of evidence that Abimael Guzmán or the central committee gave the order to execute this act in Tarata.”

Crespo, who leads the Shining Path’s successor group Movadef, argued his client was a political prisoner who had accepted the “mistakes, excesses and limitations” of his movement.

State prosecutor Johnny Soto said only the group’s central committee could have given the order to carry out the bombing, given the Shining Path’s hierarchical structure.

“As everyone knows, it was under the command of Abimael Guzmán, ‘Presidente Gonzalo’,” he said.

For orthodox members of the Shining Path, Guzmán is the fourth sword of communism after Marx, Lenin and Mao. According to Guzman’s philosophy, blood was necessary to irrigate the revolution.

The outcome of this trial will be somewhat academic. Guzmán and his wife are already serving life sentences in prison.

Publicado originalmente en The Guardian el 21 de enero de 2014