This document updates Peru: “Disappearance” of a lecturer and nine students (AMR 46/45/92) issued in September 1992. AI has now learned that all ten were apparently killed by the army. In the early hours of 18 July 1992, members of the army reportedly entered the campus of the Enrique Guzman y Valle University, also known as the Universidad de la Cantuta, on the outskirts of Lima, and detained nine students. At the same time a group of hooded men detained the lecturer Hugo Munoz Sanchez at his home. According to a statement made on 2 April 1993 before the Democratic Constituent Congress (CCD), the detainees were killed and buried at Huachipa, allegedly on the orders of a high-ranking army officer. The CCD has set up a special commission to investigate the incidents.
