Lima, Peru: Three forensic experts from the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) testified last month at the trial of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori.
EPAF’s experts, Jose Pablo Baraybar, Carmen Rosa Cardoza and Mellisa Lund, appeared in court September 10 to present the results of the forensic analysis in the case of nine students and a professor who were kidnapped from the Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle “La Cantuta.”
The 10 victims were abducted by a government death squad, known as Grupo Colina, in a pre-dawn raid July 18, 1992 and shot in the head. Their remains were later found in an unmarked grave.
The Cantuta case is one of two cases related to human rights violations for which Fujimori is facing charges.
EPAF, a partner of The Advocacy Project (AP), conducted forensic tests and DNA analysis on the remains in 2007 and also gave testimony to the First Anticorruption Criminal Court in Peru. That evidence was sufficient for the court to sentence four members of the Colina death squad to jail terms of up to 35 years.
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Posted Oct 6th, 2008