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Miami, FL - A trial on damages was held today in federal court against former Peruvian Major Telmo Hurtado Hurtado for order Doxycycline for cash on delivery his role in the infamous Accomarca Massacre of 1985 in Peru. Major Hurtado appeared in court by order of the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery judge in a prison jumpsuit and shackles. He is currently being held in an order Doxycycline for cash on delivery immigration detention center while he fights deportation to Peru. Major Hurtado refused to order Doxycycline for cash on delivery participate in the proceedings and invoked his right not to testify under the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery Fifth Amendment. Hurtado refused to listen to the testimony of the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery two plaintiffs, who are both survivors of the massacre and traveled to order Doxycycline for cash on delivery the U.S. to have their day in court. The plaintiffs, Teófila Ochoa Lizarbe and Cirila Pulido Baldeón, who order Doxycycline for cash on delivery were 12 years old at the time, gave emotional testimony about the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery massacre where Major Hurtado and his men murdered 69 civilians in the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery remote mountain village of Accomarca. The plaintiffs each testified that they survived by hiding from order Doxycycline for cash on delivery the soldiers. Despite Ms. Ochoa Lizarbe's own escape, her mother, four brothers and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery a sister were killed. Soldiers also murdered Ms. Pulido Baldeón's mother and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery brother. The plaintiffs testified about life after such a devastating loss and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery their on-going struggle to heal. In addition to order Doxycycline for cash on delivery the plaintiffs, Eduardo Gonzalez of the International Center for Transitional Justice and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery one of the authors of the Peruvian Truth Commission Report also testified. Mr. Gonzalez described how military patrol units, including the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery unit led by Major Hurtado, forced the villagers of Accomarca from order Doxycycline for cash on delivery their homes. The units took many of the women to order Doxycycline for cash on delivery a nearby field and raped them, then forced these unarmed civilians into a order Doxycycline for cash on delivery building, opened fire on the building, and ultimately burned it order Doxycycline for cash on delivery to the ground with the villagers inside. "Operation Huancayoc," Gonzalez explained, conducted during the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery civil war between the government forces and insurgent groups, including Shining Path, was a order Doxycycline for cash on delivery military plan to "capture and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery destroy the terrorist elements present in the Quebrada de Huancayoc," a district of Accomarca in the Ayacucho region of Peru. Former Peruvian Senator Javier Diez Conseco testified regarding the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery chilling statements that Major Hurtado made to a Senate investigative commission in 1985 in defense of his role in the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery massacre. Hurtado admitted that he threw a grenade into a building containing women, children and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery elderly villagers, and that he felt his actions were justified under orders he received to order Doxycycline for cash on delivery "capture and destroy" the enemy. The hearing was before Federal District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan to order Doxycycline for cash on delivery determine the amount of damages to be awarded to Ms. Ochoa Lizarbe and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery Ms. Pulido Baldeón in the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery lawsuit that they brought against Major Hurtado for torture, extrajudicial killing, war crimes and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery crimes against humanity. Judge Jordan previously granted a default judgment against Major Hurtado. Major Hurtado came to order Doxycycline for cash on delivery the U.S. in 2002 after an amnesty law protecting him from order Doxycycline for cash on delivery prosecution in Peru was nullified. The plaintiffs are order Doxycycline for cash on delivery represented by The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), a order Doxycycline for cash on delivery San Francisco-based human rights organization dedicated to ending torture and other severe human rights abuses around the order Doxycycline for cash on delivery world and advancing the rights of survivors to seek truth, justice and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery redress. CJA uses litigation to hold perpetrators individually accountable for human rights abuses, develop human rights law and order Doxycycline for cash on delivery advance the rule of law in countries transitioning from periods of abuse. |
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