Judge lets Peruvian massacre suit proceed 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, July 27, 2009
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A federal lawsuit alleging war crimes during Peru’s two-decade civil war withstood serious challenges to its viability when a Greenbelt judge rejected a raft of defenses raised by lawyers for the former army lieutenant defendant. Judge Peter J. Messitte’s opinion, reached in February but published just last week, has prompted ...