The Grupo Colina (Spanish for "hill group", pronounced [ˈɡɾupo koˈlina]) was a military anti-communist death squad created in Peru that was active from October 1991 until November 1992, during the administration of president Alberto Fujimori.
The name was given by a member of the group in honor of infantry captain José Colina Gaige who was shot by a military patrol in 1984, when he was operating as an infiltrator within the Shining Path.
The Grupo Colina, under the mandate of Fujimori, victimized trade unions and activists that spoke out against the Peruvian government, by intimidation or sometimes murder.
Fujimori signed a controversial law that granted amnesty to anyone accused of, tried for, convicted of, or sentenced for human rights violations that were committed by the armed forces or police.
[13] Other trials have established that Grupo Colina was not an informal group of renegade officers but an organic part of the Peruvian state.
[14] Julio Salazar, former de jure chief of the National Intelligence Service (SIN), was sentenced to thirty-five years of prison for his role in the La Cantuta massacre.