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U.S. Embassy (Lima)
Ayacucho Cop Describes Extra-Judicial Killings
1990
National Security Archive Electronic
police, hit squad, illegal executions, ayacucho, ingles, english
Resumen:
In this cable released on appeal, U.S. Embassy Political Officers reveal their conversations with an Ayacucho police officer, who had been a member of a secret police hit squad. The officer details the activities of the death squad, noting 300 suspects were assassinated in 1989. He explains how targets were selected and notes he even requested and received permission to kill two fellow police officers. The hit squad was disbanded in 1990 after a Sendero ambush seriously wounded or killed three of its four members. The cable notes the officer appeared “neither proud nor ashamed of his role as an extrajudicial assassin,” and seemed eager to tell his story to someone “official” since few (even within the police force) knew of the existence or activities of the hit squad
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