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In the early morning hours of July 18, 1992, members of the Army Intelligence Service (SIE) and the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINTE) burst into the homes of students and professors of the Enrique Guzmán and Valle National University, better known as La Cantuta. Nine students and one professor were detained, murdered, and secretly buried in mass graves. The victims: Professor: The acts Once the soldiers entered the student residencies, they made all of the students leave their dormitories and assume the fetal position. One of the soldiers proceeded to lift the head of each one of the students, taking them by their hair and separating those who were finally detained, who were: Bertila Lozano Torres, Dora Oyague Fierro, Luis Enrique Ortiz Perea, Armando Richard Amaro Cóndor, Robert Edgar Teodoro Espinoza, Heráclides Pablo Meza, Felipe Flores Chipana, Marcelino Rosales Cárdenas, and Juan Gabriel Mariños Figueroa. After these actions, the soldiers stormed into the home of Professor Hugo Muñoz Sánchez, climbing up the wall to the patio and destroying the service door. Later they muzzled Professor Muñoz Sánchez and covered his head with a pair of black pants. Some of the attackers covered the bedroom and prevented the wife of the professor from leaving it. The military troops proceeded to forcefully take Professor Muñoz Sánchez, who at the moment was without shoes or shirt. The operation was filmed by one of the captors. In the way from the house of Professor Muñoz Sánchez to the entrance door of the teacher's residencies, some witnesses, among them Mr. Octavio Mejía Martel and his wife, attempted to intervene to help Muñoz Sánchez, but they were held at gunpoint and forced to desist. The soldiers left the university, bringing Professor Muñoz Sánchez and the nine mentioned students outside. The bodies of the victims were secretly buried and recovered in three graves in the zone known as Santa Rosa Hill, Kilometer 1.5 of the Ramiro Prialé Highway, on the property of Sedapal, the water agency of Lima. Later, the material authors of the murders proceeded to disinter the bodies to incinerate them and transfer them to new secret graves located in Cieneguilla. This was the root of the public accusation of Congressman Henry Pease. The investigation The report in Sí also led the prosecutor’s office to search an area near Kilometer 1.5 of the Ramiro Prialé Highway that was on land owned by Sedapal, Lima’s water agency. Although the land was part of the La Aratjea Water Treatment Plant, it had been used by the National Police as a firing range. It was there that more clandestine graves were found. These graves contained skeletal human remains (a complete human skeleton with clothes, half of a skeleton, remains of hair and clothes), as well as spent bullet casings, bullets, and lime. The evidence obtained by the prosecutor's office allows on to conclude, in summary, that the remains found in Cieneguilla at Kilometer 1.5 of the Ramiro Prialé Highway are those of at least three of the aggrieved, the sudents Luis Enrique Ortiz Perea, Armando Amaro Cóndor, and Juan Gabriel Mariños Figueroa. It has also been determined with certainty that the remains found in Cieneguilla are those of Bertila Lozano Torres, noting the recognition by Dental Technician Juan Miguel Vásquez Tello. It is equally determined that some of the remains found in Cieneguilla are those of the students Robert Teodoro Espinoza and Heráclides Pablo Meza, given the recognition of the remains of the clothes by their families. It is also established that some of the remains found in Cieneguilla are those of Professor Hugo Muñoz Sánchez. Legal action Similarly, the La Cantuta case is one the cases that Fujimori is currently on trial for.
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