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Peru’s ex-spy chief guilty of disappearing students

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Javier Roca and Ricardina Andagua pose for the picture with the portrait of their son Martin, a student that was detained and disappeared by security forces in 1993, after a press conference in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. Former Peruvian spy chief Vladimir Montesinos has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for the forced disappearance of Martin Andagua, a professor and a fellow student in 1993. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

LIMA, Peru – Former Peruvian spy chief Vladimir Montesinos has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for “disappearing” a professor and two students in 1993.

Montesinos is already serving long sentences for crimes against humanity and arms trafficking.

But human rights activists said Monday’s ruling by a three-judge panel was significant because it was the first time a Peruvian court recognized that the government of former President Alberto Fujimori burned the bodies of some victims during its decade-long crackdown on dissent.

The secret facility where the bodies were burned was in the basement of an army barracks from where Montesinos presided over Peru’s intelligence agency.

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