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02/26/2006:

"Criminal Complaints Filed Against Humala"

LIMA, Peru - Teresa Avila says she found her brother-in-law floating in the Huallaga River, a bullet in his forehead and knife wounds in his chest, a week after soldiers dragged him and his wife from their jungle home. Her sister's body never turned up.

She had already gone to the Madre Mia counterinsurgency base looking for them, Avila says, but the commander, known as "Captain Carlos," denied they were there.

"He told me, 'Your family is a scourge and if they were in my hands, I would kill them all,'" she recalls.

Nearly 14 years later, Avila has identified "Captain Carlos" as Ollanta Humala, now a retired army lieutenant colonel with a fighting chance of becoming Peru's next president.

Avila is one of five people who filed criminal complaints this month accusing Humala and his soldiers of disappearances, torture and attempted murder during his 1992 command of the jungle base.
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