In May 1988, about thirty peasants in the Cayara District (Ayacucho) were killed while seven other disappeared results. It is presumed that these were extrajudicial executions by the Peruvian army, however, more than 37 years later the relatives of the victims are still waiting for justice. The absence of this has generated that two of the military investigated today can be free of all possible guilt by hosting the amnesty law promulgated by the Government of Dina Boluarte.
These are the former MiMitaries Gino Espejo Lamas and Alejandro Avendaño Dávila, whose defenses have submitted a trade to the Judiciary to benefit from Law No. 32419, popularly known as Amnesty Law, which exonerates military, police and members of the self -defense committees processed by crimes against human rights committed during the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000.
Alejandro Avendaño could leave pretrial detention
Alejandro Avendaño turns 18 in pretrial detention in the Virgen de la Merced prison in Chorrillos (Lima) since May 30, this 2025. Just four days after the amnesty law is formalized in the newspaper El Peruano, his defense filed an exception of prescription under this rule. With this, he asks that the criminal action be declared extinguished and the definitive file of the case is arranged. In turn, he asks for the immediate freedom of his client.
For its part, the defense of Gino Espejo Lamas also asks that the aforementioned law be applied to its defendant and specifies that amnesty is the “institution that gives oblivion to prosecuted and convicted persons, that is, a legal forgiveness that erases the crimes committed.”
