The World - News from July 1, 1986
Peru’s justice minister, Luis Gonzales Posada, and Gen. Maximo Martinez Lira, commander of the Republican Guard paramilitary police, resigned, nearly two weeks after more than 250 prison inmates were killed when security forces retook three Lima-area prisons from rioting inmates. President Alan Garcia has charged that more than 100 inmates were killed by police after they surrendered. Gonzales said in a letter to Garcia that he was resigning for moral reasons, and he urged a thorough investigation of the killings.
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