Peru Files 2,000-Page Case Seeking Life Terms for Quispe Palomino Brothers
Peru's Tercera Fiscalía Nacional Especializada formally filed its accusation on October 18, seeking life imprisonment for Víctor and Jorge Quispe Palomino and three other top figures of the Militarizado Partido Comunista del Perú (MPCP), 25-to-30-year terms for several alleged operatives, and S/38.5 million in reparations to the state.
The indictment runs to more than 2,000 pages, consolidates 74 separate investigations and attributes 124 criminal incidents to the group, including ambushes, attacks on security bases, mass kidnappings and the 2012 downing of a police helicopter that killed Major Nancy Flores Paucar. Prosecutors also allege systematic recruitment, retention, indoctrination and exploitation of adults and children, naming minors called 'pioneritos' held in MPCP camps as victims.
The Quispe Palomino brothers are former Sendero Luminoso cadres who went on to lead the MPCP in the coca-producing Vraem region. The filing moves the case from investigation into the judicial phase; any convictions are for the courts to decide.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：秘鲁 Ayacucho 地区安第斯山区，Vraem 地区位于该国中南部河谷地带。来源：Wikimedia Commons，公共领域 / Photo: The Andes in Peru's Ayacucho region; the Vraem lies in the country's south-central valleys. Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain
