Security & Strategic Review - June 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)

PERU | Reopening the ‘Chavín de Huántar’ case. On 29 June the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH) handed down its ruling on the 1997 ‘Chavín de Huántar’ operation in which commandos stormed the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima to rescue 72 people who had been held hostage there for 126 days by 14 guerrillas of the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA). A suit filed in 2001 alleged that three of the MRTA guerrillas had been extrajudicially executed after all but one of the hostages had been freed.

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