“There are doubts”: experts were skeptical about the alleged death of Martha Huatai

Former member of the extinct Special Intelligence Group (GEIN) José Gil Becerra was skeptical about the alleged death of the Senderist leader Marta Huatai in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires province (Argentina).

version of death Huatai This was reported a few days ago by the Argentine media. Clarionwho agreed to medical certificate and a death certificate stating that the member people’s help He died on September 12, 2022 at the age of 79 due to cardiac and respiratory arrest.

According to the act signed by the official Elizabeth MontemurroHuatai would have been cremated in the cemetery Iraola Park by agreement with relatives.

For Gil Becerrathese documents are not enough to confirm the death terrorist leaderwho is being sentenced to nine months in pre-trial detention on charges of involvement in the attack on Tarata streetin the Miraflores area of ​​Lima.

“I allow myself to doubt the death of this person, because there is no concrete evidence. She is the senior leader of Sendero Luminoso, she is not just old. At the academic level, she is a lawyer, sociologist and philosopher. She was the head of Socorro Popular, the most criminal apparatus of Sendero Luminoso, he said in Things as they are.

A former member of GEIN — the investigation team that managed to capture Sendero Luminoso leader Abimael Guzmán — said he was surprised by the cremation of the body. “We don’t have a corpse, anyone can be cremated,” he said.

“If he died, we need more scientific evidence that this person is dead. There must be processes, shooting. Now a person is not cremated in a field; Now he is being cremated with filming, recordings and doctors,” he said. Gil Becerra when requesting additional documents confirming death Martha Huatai.

Doubt remains about the death of Martha Huatai.

Meanwhile, the former head of the Office of Counter Terrorism (Dircote), Jose Baella, He also indicated that there were doubts about Huatai’s death. Like Gil Becerrarepeated that the cremation of the terrorist leader is astounding; which, he pointed out, makes it difficult to verify his identity.

“Doubt remains because Martha Huatai is leaving the country knowing she will be tried for attacking tarata. Why Argentina? Because there is a Movadef base, this is understandable. There is a strong base in Argentina, these are people who have time, these are tourists who belong to Movadef,” he said in Everything is known.

That’s why, Baella He believed that the Peruvian prosecutor’s office should ask their Argentine counterpart to conduct an exhaustive investigation into the documents proving Huatai’s death.

“(I would ask) prosecution require a thorough investigation, because the nephew registers the death certificate. The coincidence is that the corpse is cremated, how do we identify a person who has been cremated? With a DNA test, it is not so easy, because you need to look for profiles with her relative, ”he said.

“There must be a video, a photo; you need to look for witnesses,” he said.

Dirkot confirms Martha Huatai’s alleged death

Following the information released by the Clarín newspaper, PPP General José Antonio Zavala, head of the Anti-Terrorism Directorate (Dircote), indicated that the National Police had already considered this version, but it was still in the process of being confirmed.

“We cannot confirm this because all the necessary procedures are being carried out by the Argentine police to establish the authenticity of the documentation presented and whether this fact actually took place,” he said.

In this sense, the head of Dirkote indicated that he is coordinating with his Argentine counterparts in order to be able to confirm the death. Martha Huatai.

“We cannot confirm this. We have the same information, we are agreeing, they are talking about the same, but we cannot be irresponsible and confirm (this) information,” he said.

For his part, PPP General Oscar Arriola, Director of Criminal Investigations, confirmed in dialogue with RPP Noticias that the PPP General Commander was also aware of the death documents of the Senderist leader.

“Yesterday we were with the commander, and he already had this information, which requires verification in terms of the actions carried out by the elements shining path they need to be checked,” he said.

“There is documentation that she would have died last year from cardiac and respiratory arrest and that she would have been cremated. In addition, there is a crematorium, a doctor and a direct relative,” he added.