U.S. Court Awards $37 Million in Damages to Survivors of Peruvian Massacre

On March 4, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan ordered former Peruvian Major Telmo Hurtado Hurtado to pay $37 million in damages to Peruvian plaintiffs Teófila Ochoa Lizarbe and Cirila Pulido Baldeón and the estates of their deceased family members who died during the Accomarca Massacre of 1985 in Peru.  Jordan had previously granted a default judgment against Hurtado for torture, extrajudicial killing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity...[more]