Ten ex-military officers convicted of rape in Peru
The Peruvian Judiciary sentenced on Wednesday ten former military officers for multiple sexual abuses committed against nine women in the districts of Manta and Vilca, in the region of Huancavelica, between 1984 and 1995, during the period of the internal armed conflict that shook the country. teleSUR
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00:00In Peru, the criminal court convicted 10 ex-military personnel for crimes of sexual violence against
00:06several women during the years of the internal armed conflict that shook the country.
00:11The transitory criminal court issued the sentence in the so-called Manda and Bilca case, which
00:16involves a series of sexual abuses perpetrated by former soldiers of the Peruvian army between
00:231984 and 1995.
00:25The soldiers had installed themselves in the community of Manda to take control of the
00:30area shortly before the allegations of rapes against the women and girls of the village
00:35began.
00:36The court qualified the case as a crime against humanity, for which the seven accused received
00:41sentences ranging from 6 to 12 years in prison.