Víctor Alfredo Polay Campos (born 6 April 1951) is one of the founders of the

Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (, abbreviated MRTA) was a Peruvian Marxist-Leninist guerrilla army which started in the early 1980s. Their self-declared goal was to demonstrate to leftist groups in Peru that sought change through the ...

, a

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vian Marxist–Leninist terrorist organization that fought in the

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. He is currently imprisoned in

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Naval Base with

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. He was arrested in 1992. In 1997, the

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has found that the circumstances of his trial and detention violated articles 7, 10 and 14 of the

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. On 22 March 2006, he was found guilty by a Peruvian court on nearly 30 crimes committed during the late 1980s and early 1990s and was sentenced to 32 years imprisonment.

Family

Polay was the son of Victor Polay-Risco, who was part of the founding generation of the Peruvian Aprista Party. Polay-Risco is half-

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; his father, Po Leysen, was a Chinese

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who arrived to work in the Trujillo sugarcane plantations.Look-Lai (2010), p. 166-7

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