Panel Probes Alleged Incineration of People
A Peruvian congressional commission is investigating accounts that a secret underground furnace discovered in the army’s headquarters was used to incinerate people during the hard-line rule of former President Alberto Fujimori, an official said.
“We have three secret witnesses . . . at least two of them indicate they were informed [that people were incinerated],†said a spokesman for the commission investigating Fujimori’s top aide, jailed former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos. It was not clear whether people were allegedly burned alive.
Montesinos is being held in a naval base jail awaiting trial on a host of corruption and human rights abuse charges. Fujimori lives in self-imposed exile in Japan.
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