U.S. Holds Suspects In War Crimes

[Demeter]

Source: Washington Post


By Spencer S. Hsu and Nick Miroff
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 4, 2007; Page A01

Barreiro was among three former South American military officers suspected of war crimes whose arrests were announced yesterday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has renewed its efforts to crack down on alleged human rights violators living as fugitives in the United States.

The others arrested include Telmo Ricardo Hurtado, a former Peruvian army major who led an attack that killed 69 villagers, many of whom were tortured and raped, in the Peruvian Highlands village of Accomarca on Aug. 14, 1985, during the military's war against the Shining Path guerrilla movement. Hurtado was arrested Friday in Miami.

A fellow soldier now living in Gaithersburg, Juan Manuel Rivera-Rondon, was arrested in Baltimore and faces deportation to Peru, where U.S. officials said he and Hurtado will be turned over to local authorities to face charges for their alleged roles in the 1985 killings.

American officials and human rights advocates said the three were among the most important suspects seized since ICE activated a human rights unit early last year. Diplomatic challenges and the government's lagging efforts have caused the United States repeated embarrassment when notorious human rights abusers from around the globe turned up leading otherwise normal lives in the country.



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What goes around, let's hope it comes around! Let other nations return the favor!

[atreides1]

1. But

The US is still sitting on its hands regarding this man: Luis Posada Carriles

Well he is Cuban after all, and those people that died on Cubana flight 455 were collateral damage in the greater battle against Castro!

[sinkingfeeling]

2. When does some country 'hold' Bush and Cheney for the same thing?

[Marnieworld]

3. I know that's what I thought at first

it should be U.S.- suspects in War Crimes

We have no credibility anymore thanks to these evil people.