Osman Morotesentenced to life imprisonment for his links with Luminous Path and his participation in various massacres perpetrated by said terrorist organization, he will remain in prison. The Senderista leader, known within the subversive leadership as Comrade Remigio, filed a judicial appeal with the aim of annulling the life sentence he is serving in the Ancón I prison. In response, the First National Superior Criminal Chamber for Temporary Liquidation rejected his request.
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The decision was made by the judges Pilar Carbonel, Doris Rodriguez and Richard Llacsahuangawho pointed out that Morote does not meet the humanitarian conditions necessary to justify his release. Likewise, they stated that the legal arguments presented are not sufficient to grant the requested penalty exception.
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Morote Barrionuevo He was convicted in two key court cases of terrorism. In 2006, the National Criminal Chamber sentenced him to 25 years in prison for his participation as a high-level leader in the subversive organization responsible for multiple attacks and murders during the internal armed conflict.
After serving that sentence and being released in 2018, he was briefly placed under house arrest. However, that same year he was sentenced again, this time to life imprisonment, for his involvement in the attack on the Tarata Streetperpetrated in Miraflores in 1992. This attack, one of the most violent in Luminous Pathleft 25 dead and more than 150 injured. This last conviction reaffirmed his responsibility in one of the organization’s most atrocious crimes and kept him in prison again.
Who is Osmán Morote? The former leader of the Shining Path
Osman Morote Barrionuevo He is a former leader of Luminous Path. Born in Cusco in 1949 and he studied at the National University of San Cristobal de Humanga, where he became involved with Marxist circles and later with the group founded by Abimael Guzmán. Within the Sendero structure, Morote occupied a prominent place as member of the Central Committeethe body in charge of the group’s political and military planning, as well as the dissemination of its Maoist ideology.
Throughout the internal armed conflict, Morote He played strategic roles in the organization, focused on the coordination of subversive actions and the articulation of the ideological discourse of Luminous Path. His role as one of the main terrorist cadres made him a key figure behind the operational decisions that led to multiple attacks in various regions of the country. He was arrested in 1988 during a police operation in Huancayo and remained held in maximum security prisons, where he continued to be considered a symbolic reference for Shining Path militancy.
