Peru’s Prosecutor Demands Life Sentence for MRTA Leader in Heinous Anti-LGBTQ Murders

In a decisive move toward justice and national healing, Peru’s Public Ministry has demanded life imprisonment for Víctor Polay, the founder and top leader of the violent Marxist insurgent group Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA), along with several other senior members. The charges relate to a chilling campaign of targeted killings against the LGBTQ community between 1989 and 1992. Polay, now 74, was already serving time in a maximum-security naval prison after leading MRTA during Peru’s brutal internal conflict that cost over 69,000 lives. This latest legal action exposes how extremist ideologies — thriving under the guise of social revolution...