During his tenure at '' Sí '' , Uceda published reports on the corruption of government officials , exposing army massacres and collaboration with drug lords . He consistently refused to reveal the sources of his investigations , leading to numerous government cases against him . He was also accused by government spokespeople of being connected with the Shining Path , though these charges were never substantiated . In 1992 , '' Sí '' ran a story implicating senior military officials in the Barrios Altos massacre , an incident in which the anti-communist death squad Grupo Colina killed fifteen partygoers , including an eight-year-old child , after mistaking them for Shining Path members . Following the story , Uceda was the subject of a police investigation for " falsifying information " , a charge of which he was later cleared . An Americas Watch ( an arm of Human Rights Watch ) spokesperson condemned the investigation as being part of a general pattern of repression against journalists by the government of Alberto Fujimori
Barrios Altos massacre
Barrios Altos massacre
Ricardo Uceda