(20 Jun 2024)
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Lima, Peru – 19 June 2024
1. Wide of judges reading sentencing to military officers accused of raping farmers, UN Human Rights workers sitting among others during hearing
2. Hearing
3. Judges of Peru’s First Superior Criminal Court
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marco Angulo, Judge on Peru’s First Superior Criminal Court:
"All of them (the defendants) are sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, penalty that will start to be counted once they are in judicial custody, and they should be released at the end of their sentence, provided they do not have another aggravating measure or sentence again them."
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5. Indigenous woman amongst victims
6. Sentencing hearing
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marco Angulo, Judge on Peru’s First Superior Criminal Court:
"Fifth, they fixed in the amount of 100 thousand soles ($26,525 US dollars) for civil reparation, to be paid BY each of the convicted persons and in favor of each of the aggrieved women who were sexually assaulted in the terms and conditions indicated by law."
8. Women leaving courtroom celebrating the sentencing UPSOUND (Spanish) "The justice came."
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Virginia González, victim of sexual abuse:
"None of those accused showed up to court. They are cowards. We’ve fought for 20 years, (the sentence) is short. Look at them. Some will spend no more than eight years in jail, others six, others 18 years. That’s too little for us."
10. Women victims of rape
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) M.G., victim of sexual abuse:
"We are dissatisfied with the sentence. And what happened to our friend? She died and what will become of her? She was as much a victim as us. She was humiliated. Marily Araujo is no longer on this Earth. What’s the point of these reparations if her children are not included. Where are her kids, what has become of them?"
13. Exterior of court
14.SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sigrid Bazan, Representative of the New Peru Political Party:
"What we do celebrate or at least recognize, is that this type of case continues to be prosecuted, that the sentence is recorded in the framework of crimes against humanity and that they can finally see justice, despite the fact that 40 years have passed."
15. Representative Bazan hugging one of the victims.
16. Family members dancing
17. Women chanting and holding signs
STORYLINE:
Ten men were convicted Wednesday in Peru for raping nine teenagers while serving in the military during the country’s armed conflict decades ago.
This sentence was also recorded as the first in Peru in which rape or sexual violence is considered a crimes against humanity.
Judge Marco Angulo, of Peru’s First Superior Criminal Court, ordered the former soldiers to serve time in prison, with sentences ranging between six and 12 years.
Authorities accused them of raping the teenagers between 1984 and 1994 in the Andean community of Manta.
After the sentences were announced, prosecutors, who sought harsher sentences, and attorneys for the victims said they will evaluate Angulo’s decision to decide whether to challenge it.
The war that raged between the Peruvian military and the Shining Path communist insurgency from 1980 to 2000 left an estimated 70,000 people dead, the majority of them in rural areas.
Angulo on Wednesday said the rapes sometimes occurred when the teenagers were entering their homes after being threatened with rifles, or after being detained and accused without evidence of being part of the Shining Path.
One victim reported having a scar on her hip left by a soldier using a knife to cut her underwear.
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