World IN BRIEF : PERU : 11 Officers Get 20 Years in ’92 Slayings
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Peru’s top military court sentenced 11 army officers to up to 20 years in military custody for the 1992 slayings of nine students and a professor suspected of guerrilla activity. Two majors received the harshest penalty for having directed a special squad that entered the La Cantuta university campus and abducted the 10 on July 17, 1992. They were murdered hours later at a police firing range outside Lima.
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