Victor Polay
Victor Polay Campos (born April 6, 1951 in Callao , Peru ) is one of the founders of the Peruvian underground organization Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA), which essentially operated until 1997.
Polay was jailed in the late 1980s. In July 1990, Victor Polay and 46 other MRTA comrades escaped from Canto Grande Prison via a 315-meter-long dug tunnel. He was caught two years later. In 1993 a military court sentenced him to life imprisonment. However, the verdict was overturned by a court of appeals because the military tribunal process failed to meet international standards for the rule of law. That is why a new trial was ordered before a civil court.
On March 22, 2006, he was sentenced to 32 years in prison for approximately 30 offenses committed with the MRTA in the 1980s and 1990s. He is serving this sentence in a prison in the naval base in Callao , where, among others, Abimael Guzmán , the founder of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso , and the former head of Peru's intelligence services, Vladimiro Montesinos , are imprisoned.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Agence France-Presse , March 24, 2006.
- ^ Peru guerrilla leader convicted . In: BBC News of March 22, 2006.
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| SURNAME | Polay, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Polay Campos, Victor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian underground fighter, co-founder of the Peruvian underground organization Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Callao , Peru |