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I.
PURPOSE OF THE COMPLAINT
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is petitioning the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights that: 1.
It find that the Government of Peru, through the acts of its agents, has
violated the right to life, the right to humane treatment, the right to personal
liberty, the right to a fair trial, the right to property, and the right to
judicial protection, recognized in articles 4, 5, 7, 8, 21 and 25, all in
relation Article 1.1 of the American Convention on Human Rights, as a
consequence of the extrajudicial executions, torture, arbitrary arrest, forced
disappearance and damage to public property and the property of Peruvian
citizens, victims of actions that members of the Peruvian Army took starting on
May 14, 1988, in the district of Cayara, Province of Víctor Fajardo, Department
of Ayacucho, and the following persons in particular: ARBITRARY
EXECUTIONS AND FORCED DISAPPEARANCES
1.
APARI TELLO, HERMENEGILDO TORTURE
PALOMINO
DE LA CRUZ, INDALECIO DAMAGE
TO THE PROPERTY OF
IPURRE RAMOS, GREGORIO DAMAGE
TO PUBLIC PROPERTY
CAYARA HEALTH STATION 2. It find that the Government of Peru has
failed to honor its obligation to respect and guarantee the exercise of the
rights mentioned in the preceding paragraph, under the terms of Article 1.1 of
the Convention. 3. It set the reparations and compensatory
damages to which the victims and/or their next-of-kin are entitled as a
consequence of the actions of the agents of the Peruvian Government described in
this complaint, in accordance with Article 63.1 of the Convention. 4. It instruct the Government of Peru to conduct
a thorough and impartial investigation of the facts denounced in this
submission, single out those responsible for the violations denounced and bring
them to trial so that they may receive the punishment that the law demands. II. THE FACTS A. General statement of the facts in this
case On May 13, 1988, at around
21:00 hours, in the vicinity of the hamlet known as Erusco, a Peruvian Army
convoy was ambushed by an armed group belonging to the Peruvian Communist Party
-also known as the Sendero Luminoso [Shining Path]--, leaving four soldiers dead
and another 14 wounded. Erusco is
located in the District of Cayara, Province of Victor Fajardo, Department of
Ayacucho, a region that has been the scene of very serious violence dating back
to 1980, when the group launched its armed fight against the Peruvian
constitutional system. Since
December 1982, the Department of Ayacucho has been in a state of emergency and
under the authority of a Political-Military Command.
At the time of the events in question, the Chief of the
Political-Military Command was Brigadier General José Valdivia Dueñas, who was
promoted to the rank of Division General in December 1990. The next day, May 14,
military troops instituted a series of actions in the Cayara district which
resulted in the arbitrary execution of 33 persons, the disappearance of 7, the
torture of at least 6 who survived and damage to public and private property,
all within the period from May 14, 1988 to September 8, 1989.
In committing the violations mentioned herein, the military troops'
purpose was to take reprisals -targeted at a community whom the military
considered to be terrorists-- and to eliminate those persons whose names
appeared in a letter that an anonymous informant sent to an Army officer in that
area. Some of the persons whose
names were mentioned in the letter were killed on May 14, while others were
arrested and then killed on May 18. Others
were arrested and disappeared on June 29 of that year, while another was
summarily executed on December 14. Property
belonging to some of the other people on the list was damaged and looted.
Apart from the individuals on the list in question, military troops
proceeded to execute arbitrarily other persons from the town, while other people
were the victims of enforced disappearance. The soldiers also tortured an unknown number of persons to
obtain information on the subversive group's activities. The authors of these
actions also committed acts calculated to conceal the truth.
Pressure was used to force witnesses to change their testimony and those
who would not were physically eliminated. And
so it was that on September 8, 1989, the last of the key witnesses was murdered.
The authors also took measures to cover up their tracks, which included
efforts to wash away the bloodstains in the church and to hide the bodies of the
victims, most of which have not yet been found.
Their actions were also calculated to thwart the proceedings conducted by
those organs of the Peruvian State that were endeavoring to ascertain the facts
and, as the case gained notoriety, to obtain from organs of the Peruvian State
versions that were consistent with those spread by the Army. As a result of all these
actions, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation has not indicted any
of the authors of these events, though the Special Prosecutor did submit an
official report prepared on the basis of his investigations wherein he charges
that the individual that bears the principal responsibility for these events is
the Chief of the Political-Military Command of Ayacucho.
The Government Commission -also known as the Commission of Notables-,
appointed by the Executive Power, also failed to arrive at any clear-cut
conclusions concerning the responsibility for these actions.
It should also be noted that the majority opinion of the Senate
Investigating Committee also concurs with the Army's version of what happened,
while two minority opinions hold the Army responsible.
The Military Court failed to convict anyone for these actions and
dismissed the respective case. All
this could not have happened without complicity at the highest decision-making
levels within the Peruvian State. These
events are not unprecedented in Peru, where there have been other killings by
the security forces. Moreover, when
it comes to the practice of enforced disappearance of persons, Peru is at the
top of the list. APPENDICES: 1.
Map of the area. 2.
Report of the Office of the Inspector General of the Army, May 31, 1988,
on the 3.
Cayara pleadings 4.
Report of General José Valdivia Dueñas to the Provincial Prosecutor of
Cangallo, 5.
Report of the Special Prosecutor, Dr. Carlos Escobar Pineda, dated
October 13, 6.
Report of the Provincial Prosecutor of Cangallo, Dr. Jesús Granda. 7.
Report of the Prosecutor for Victor Fajardo, Dr. Rubén Vega Cárdenas. 8.
Report of the Senate Investigating Committee. 9.
Attachment to the statement made by Amnesty International before the B. Statement of
the specific facts 1. Death and subsequent
disappearance of Esteban Asto Bautista On May 14, 1988, the Army
seized total control of the area and some 80 soldiers, organized into seven
patrols, entered the district of Cayara, province of Víctor Fajardo, Department
of Ayacucho. At the entrance to the
town, at the place known as Alpajulo, they arbitrarily executed ESTEBAN ASTO
BAUTISTA. That night, the soldiers returned to look for the victim's
body and removed it. EVIDENCE: 1.
Report of General Valdivia to Prosecutor Granda, dated November 18, 1988,
wherein he mentions the operation involving seven patrols and the fact that
there was a dead man at the entrance to the town. 2.
Testimony of Indalecio Palomino de la Cruz to the Special Prosecutor,
dated May 21, 1988. 3.
Testimony of Martha Crisóstomo García to the Special Prosecutor, dated
May 21, 1988, on what Magda Suarez Valenzuela, wife of Esteban Asto Bautista,
had said. 4.
Testimony of Marco Antonio Taquiri Infante before the Special Prosecutor,
May 26, 1988. 5.
Testimony of Maximiliana Noa Ccayo to the Special Prosecutor, dated May
26, 1988. 6.
Testimony of Valeriana Ipurre Marcatoma de Apari to the Special
Prosecutor, dated May 26, 1988. 7.
Minority Report of the Senate Investigating Committee, prepared by
Senator Javier Diez Canseco (IACHR Report 29/91, page 88), on statements made by
the victim'_ wife. 2. The Material Damage The soldiers then entered
the town, where they damaged the clinic, the premises of the Town Council and
the school. They looted and damaged
stores and other private property. Some
of the damage and thefts involved property belonging to persons whose names
appeared on a "list of subversives" that the Army had in its
possession and whose existence it acknowledged.
That list was later published by the press.
Some of those whose property was damaged were being sought openly by the
Army and were killed, either that very day or thereafter. To locate the homes and then identify the persons on the
list, the soldiers forced Marcial Crisóstomo de la Cruz to accompany them. EVIDENCE: 1.
On-site inspection conducted by the Special Prosecutor on May 21, 1988
(page 7 of the Report of the Special Prosecutor), an inquiry that concerned the
following property: a.
That of Gregorio Ipurre Ramos, located in Cayara; the house was burned
completely to the ground. b.
That of Lucía Tello, located in Cayara, which was also the residence of
Dionisio Suárez Palomino; the door had been broken down and some of her
belongings burned; the flames had gone as high as the ceiling as the rafters
were already sooty; damage estimated at I./40,000. c.
That of Primitiva Cabrera de Palomino, located in Cayara; the general
store was found to have been looted by soldiers on May 14, 1988;
the stolen property was valued at I./.20,000. d.
That of Modesto García Pariona, located in Cayara; it was established
that the general store had been looted by soldiers on May 14, 1988; the economic
loss was I/.50,000; the door and the glass shelving had been broken and
electrical devices stolen, the value of the loss being I/.30,000. e.
That of Teodosio Torres Tinco, in Cayara; the door of the house had been
forced; Army soldiers had stolen cash in the amount of I/.30,000. f.
That of Catalina de la Cruz Vda. de Torres, located in Cayara; Army
soldiers stole I/.40,000 in cash from her general store. g.
That of Paulina Suárez Bautista, in Cayara; a food store where Army
troops broke down the door and stole I-/2,000 in cash.
The inquiry was suspended at 9:00 p.m., to resume on May 26, 1988, at
2:00 p.m. h.
At the Cayara Medical Station, where the witness Agapito Tinco Noa was
present; by the time of the inspection everything was found to be in order,
though it was said that on May 14 everything had been torn apart by the
soldiers. i.
At the premises of the Cayara Town Council; by the time of the inquiry
everything had been repaired and recently painted, though one could still see
that a door had been forced open. j.
At the home of Apolonio Huamaní, located in Cayara, where the door had
been broken down and everything had been torn apart. k.
At the Cayara Education Center, where the inquiry found that there were
five aluminum pots missing, which the Army troops were said to have been using. l.
That of Enedina García Pariona, located in Cayara; the door of the
general store had been forced open, ripping off the hinges and latches, which
were turned over as the corpus delicti; Army soldiers were said to have
stolen cash and electrical devices valued at I/.15,000. m.
That of Professor Emiliano Aquino Paico, located in Cayara, where the
door had been forced. 2.
A letter that an anonymous informant sent to an Army Captain, in which
the following persons are named as being terrorists: José
Joayo Rivera (killed in Ccechuaypampa on May 14, 1988) The existence of this list
has been acknowledged in the Report that the Chief of the Ayacucho
Political-Military Command sent to Prosecutor Jesús Granda dated November 18,
1988, and to which a copy of the anonymous letter that included that list was
affixed. The existence of the list is also acknowledged in Official
Communique No. 064/S-2/BCS 34/20.00, which appears in the Report of the Office
of the Army Inspector General sent by General Jaime Enrique Salinas Sedó,
Acting Commandant of the II Military Region, dated May 31, 1988.
The list was published in the magazine OIGA, dated May 23, 1988. 3.
Testimony by Fernandina Palomino Quispe before the Special Prosecutor, on
June 19, 1988, page 4. She was the
wife of Solano Ccayo Noa, who was murdered at Ccechuaypampa and was herself
murdered on December 14, 1988, while on the road, see II.B.8. 4.
First testimony given by Martha Crisóstomo before the Special
Prosecutor, May 21, 1988. Murdered
on September 8, 1989 in Ayacucho, see II.9. 3. The Deaths at the Cayara Church On the morning of that May
14, the soldiers went to the church of Cayara where the festival honoring the
town's patron saint, the Virgin of Fatima, was coming to an end; they ordered
those inside the church to go outside, to the town square, where they were
assembling a number of people. They
then proceeded to separate the women and children from five men, whom they
ordered back into the church. The
women and children heard the men screaming, as if they were being tortured. The men were kept inside the church that night.
The soldiers surrounded it and did not allow relatives and townspeople to
enter or go near the church. Inside the church, the
soldiers killed:
1.
EMILIO BERROCAL CRISOSTOMO They then proceeded to move
the bodies during the night. In the
days that followed, they scrubbed down the church floor with cooking oil and
dirt to remove the bloodstains. The bodies of the victims
were later found by their relatives at Quinsahuaycco, where they were buried.
On May 30, an attempt was made to conduct an exhumation, but the graves
were discovered empty; however, they still contained human hairs and pieces of
human skin that, according to the tests conducted by the police, dated from the
time these events occurred. EVIDENCE 1.
Testimony of Paulina Gonzalez Cabrera de Noa before Special Prosecutor on
May 21, 1988, plus her expanded statement, May 26, 1988. 2.
Testimony of Julia Noa Palomino before the Special Prosecutor, May 27,
1988. 3.
Testimony of Fabián Suarez Pariona before the Special Prosecutor, on
June 11, 1988. 4.
Testimony of Victoriana Meza Cabrera before the Special Prosecutor, June
2, 1988. 5.
Exhumation proceeding conducted on May 30, 1988, by the Judge of Cangallo,
Dr. César Amado Salazar, in the company of forensic physicians from Lima, Dr.
Victor Maurtua and Dr. Rodolfo Díaz Cucho, and in the presence of Special
Prosecutor and the witness Julia Noa González. 6.
Examination Report No. 02384, dated August 10, 1988, from the Peruvian
Forensic Medicine Institute. 4.
The Deaths and Disappearances at Ccechuaypampa, obstruction of
proceedings and concealment A number of military
patrols continued on their way on the afternoon of May 14 and arrived at
Ccechuaypampa, a place that is an hour and a half walk from Cayara.
There they arrested a group of campesinos who were returning from
Ccechua after working on their harvests; the soldiers separated the women and
children from the men and began to torture the latter mercilessly, interrogating
them about the ambush that occurred the previous day.
They cut off cactus leaves and placed them on the backs of the campesinos,
as the latter lie face down on the ground; they stepped on the campesinos
and beat them. The soldiers then
killed them using their own work tools, axes, hammers, knives, sickles and
machetes. Those who were not killed
outright, they shot. As they killed
them, they "piled them up like sheep at the foot of a molle tree"
(Testimony of Fernandina Palomino). All
of this occurred in the presence of the women and children.
It should be noted that some of those tortured survived, as in the case
of the minor Ciro Ccayo Huayanay. Those
who died as a result of these actions were buried in at least five graves, from
which the soldiers removed their bodies. Those
killed in these actions were: 1.
DAVID CCAYO CAHUAYMI (62) Among those who survived
the torture were: 1.
CIRO CCAYO HUAYANAY On the night of May 14,
1988, Valeriana Ipurre Marcatoma de Apari, who lives near Ccechuaypampa,
received MAGDALENO GUTIERREZ in her home. Gutierrez
arrived complaining of a strong pain in the head, saying that they had shot him.
Together with her mother, SEGUNDINA MARCATOMA SUAREZ vda. de IPURRE, age
80, the two women dressed Gutierrez' wound, but did not turn on the light for
fear of the soldiers, since both of them had seen what had happened in
Ccechuaypampa. At five or six in the morning, Army troops arrived and forced
Valeria Ipurre to leave her home with her children, so that her mother and
Magdaleno Gutierrez remained inside. According
to Valeria Ipurre's testimony, she sent her young son to see what was happening.
The first day he saw his grandmother and Mr. Gutierrez, but on the second
day he did not see them and they have been missing ever since. On May 20, 1988, the
Provincial Judge of Cangallo, Dr. Simón Palomino Vargas, did an on-site
inspection at Cayara and, based on what relatives had told him concerning the
existence of bodies at Ccechuaypampa, attempted to reach that point; he was,
however, forced to suspend the proceedings when the group heard shots from a
nearby hill, whereupon the military escort told them that they must not continue
any further. On May 21, another attempt
was made to conduct an exhumation proceeding at Ccechuaypampa but a military
control at Huancapi, under the command of "Major Yauyos," did not
allow the experts accompanying the Judge of Cangallo to continue, thereby
thwarting the proceeding yet another time. On May 25, the soldiers
ordered the townspeople not to come out of their houses, loaded the bodies that
were at Ccechuaypampa on horseback and took them off in the direction of Huayla.
On May 27, 1988, the Judge of Cangallo, Dr. César Carlos Amado Salazar,
conducted an exhumation during the course of which five empty graves were found;
the graves had the odor of bodies and the remains that were found were analyzed
by forensic medical laboratories, which established that they were human
remains. On June 11, at the request
of the Special Prosecutor, the Judge of Cangallo conducted an on-site inspection
in connection with the removal of the bodies denounced by several witnesses;
approximately one meter above the path in question, twisted among the plants
bordering that path, strands of human hair and pieces of human skin were found,
which was consistent with the witnesses statements to the effect that the bodies
were taken away on pack animals. EVIDENCE: 1.
Statement by Ciro Ccayo Huayanay before
the Special Prosecutor, May 26, 1988. 2.
Testimony by Fernandina Palomino Quispe for the Special Prosecutor, May
19, 1988 (II.B.2, para. 3). 3.
Testimony by Priscila Isabel García Oré before the Special Prosecutor,
May 19, 1988. 4.
Testimony By Valeriana Ipurre Marcatoma de Apari before the Special
Prosecutor, May 26, 1988. 5.
Expanded testimony by Paulina Gonzalez Cabrera before the Special
Prosecutor, June 26, 1988 (II.B.3, para. 1). 6.
Testimony by Marco Antonio Taquiri Infante before the Special Prosecutor,
May 26, 1988 (II.B.1, para. 4). 7.
Testimony of Maximiliana Noa Ccayo before the Special Prosecutor, May 26,
1988 (II.B.1, para. 5). 8.*
Testimony of Delia Ipurre Noa before the Special Prosecutor, May 26,
1988. 9.
Testimony of Aurora Palomino Suarez before the Special Prosecutor, June
10, 1988. 10.
Testimony by Crescencia Sulca Palomino before the Special Prosecutor,
June 10, 1988. 11.
Testimony by Urbana Noa Suarez de González before the Special
Prosecutor, June 10, 1988. 12.
Testimony by Maura Palomino de Oré before the Special Prosecutor, June
10, 1988. 13.
Testimony by Lucía Tello de Suarez before the Special Prosecutor, May
21, 1988. 14.
Testimony by Teodora Apari Marcatoma de Palomino before the Special
Prosecutor, May 21, 1988. 15.
On-site inspection report, dated May 20, 1988, performed by the Judge of
Cangallo, Dr. Simón Palomino Vargas, in connection with statements by relatives
concerning the existence of bodies in Ccechuaypampa, a proceeding that had to be
suspended because of shots fired at the retinue from a nearby hill. 16.
Report of the Special Prosecutor on the proceeding conducted to exhume
the bodies at Ccechuaypampa which procedure was frustrated due to the obstacles
imposed by military personnel on May 21, 1988 (Annex No. 6, page 9). 17.
A proceeding to exhume and raise bodies, conducted on May 27, 1988, by
the Judge of Cangallo, César Carlos Amado Salazar, at Ccechuaypampa, during
which the existence of empty graves containing human remains and a strong odor
of corpses were discovered. 18.
Forensic Biology Opinion No. 1930-88, from the Central Laboratory of the
Peruvian Investigating Police Bureau. 19.
Forensic Medicine Report No. 3615/88, on the skin of the hand of
Eustaquio Oré Palomino. 20.
Forensic Biology Expert Report No. 1930-88 to determine the
characteristics of the traces of blood and hair. 21.
Forensic Medicine Report No. 4286/88, on a piece of cranium. 22.
Examination Report No. 02384, conducted in connection with the
exhumations of May 27, 1988. 23.
The on-site inspection of the Special Prosecutor, dated June 11, 1988. 5. Torture in the Cayara District
Council On the night of May 14,
1988, soldiers took into custody INDALECIO PALOMINO DE LA CRUZ, CESAR DE LA CRUZ
IPURRE, AVELINO TARQUI QUISPE, DOMITILA ESQUIVEL FERNANDEZ and BENEDICTA MARIA
VALENZUELA CCAYO; the last of these was accompanied by her young child.
These people were taken to the premises of the Cayara District Council,
where some 15 soldiers proceeded to torture them throughout the night,
interrogating them about the ambush that occurred the previous day and about
their alleged connections with subversive groups. The torture consisted of beatings, burns and lesions caused
by pliers. Four of these people
were released the following day; Indalecio Palomino was released on May 16. EVIDENCE 1.
Testimony of Indalecio Palomino de la Cruz before the Special Prosecutor,
May 21, 1988 (ii.B.1, para. 2). 2.
Testimony of Benedicta María Benedicta Valenzuela Ccayo before the
Special Prosecutor, June 10, 1988. 3.
Testimony of Fernandina Palomino Quispe before the Special Prosecutor,
May 19, 1988 (II.B.2, para. 3). 4.
Testimony of Fabían Suarez Pariona before the Special Prosecutor, June
11, 1988 (II.B.3, para. 3). 6.
Arrests and subsequent deaths of Alejandro Echeccaya Villagaray, Samuel
García Palomino and Jovita García Suarez On the morning of May 18,
General José Valdivia Dueñas and ordered the townspeople to assembly on the
sports field, which is where the helicopters landed.
Around midday, he read aloud a list of names asking that the individuals
in question turn themselves in since they were regarded as subversives.
The list coincided with the names included in the aforementioned letter
that the Army had in its possession, wherein an anonymous townsperson reported
the names of alleged subversives, except in the case of Dionisio Suárez
Palomino and José Ccayo Rivera, who had been killed in Ccechuaypampa on May 14.
Many people told General Valdivia that the individuals named were not
subversives. At that point, none of
those named by General Valdivia was found; he left in the helicopter, after
having installed a permanent military garrison at the Cayara school. At around 3:00 on the
afternoon of May 18, an Army Patrol arrived under the command of an Army officer
dressed in khaki pants, wearing a black cap, with red hair and a ruddy
complexion; he would later be photographed.
The patrol went out in search of those named by General Valdivia.
On May 18, in Erusco, this patrol arrested SAMUEL GARCIA PALOMINO and
JOVITA GARCIA, the first of whom was on the list. They were placed under arrest and taken to the Erusco school,
in the presence of a number of the people who lived in that vicinity.
Thirty other people were being held at the school at the time.
On May 19, ALEJANDRO ECHECCAYA VILLAGARAY was arrested; he, too, figured
on the list taken from the anonymous letter. On May 20, six soldiers
took Jovita García to her home, where she was seen by her relative Zózima García,
whom soldiers threw out of the house while they conducted a search.
They then released Jovita García but withheld her documents.
That night, the soldiers again went out in search of Jovita García, and
found her at the home of her aunt, Lucía Bautista Sulca, the soldiers arrested
Jovita García again and took her away together with ECHECCAYA and GARCIA
PALOMINO. When they arrived in
Yarccapampa, the military patrol and the detainees spent the night at the home
of a campesino by the name of Julio Torres.
Fifteen days later, the wives of the two men who had been arrested,
Delfina Pariona Palmino and Juana Apari Oré, found articles of clothing and
evidence of the existence of a grave on Mount Pucutuccasa.
Afraid, they returned a month later and there found the bodies. All the
evidence pointed to the fact that the detainees had been executed. The body of Jovita García
was exhumed and identified by her sister Flavia and brother Justiniano García
Suarez on August 10, 1988, in the inquiry conducted by Prosecutor Escobar.
In that same proceeding, Justiniano García identified the bodies of
Alejandro Echeccaya and Samuel García Palomino; there was also a fourth body, which could not be identified.
The Special Prosecutor obtained the fingerprints from the body of Samuel
García Palomino. Because of a lack of transportation, only the body of Jovita
García was transported to the Cangallo Hospital, where an autopsy was conducted
and she was identified by her niece Martha Crisóstomo García.
Senator Carlos Enrique Melgar requested another exhumation of the body of
Jovita García, a proceeding that was to have been conducted on November 9,
1988; it was never conducted,
however, because the bodies disappeared from the Cangallo cemetery before the
proceeding took place. On August
19, 1988, the Special Prosecutor finally managed to conduct another proceeding
to exhume the three bodies found on Mount Pucutuccasa, in the presence of the
Senate Investigating Commission; it was discovered that the three bodies had disappeared. EVIDENCE 1.
Testimony of Martha Crisóstomo García before the Special Prosecutor,
May 21, 1988. 2.
Testimony of Flavia García Suarez before the Special Prosecutor, June
23, 1988. 3.
Testimony of Antonio Ccayo Quispe de García before the Special
Prosecutor, August 19, 1988. 4.
Testimony of Juana Apari Oré before the Special Prosecutor, August 19,
1988. 5.
Testimony of Lucía Bautista Sulca before the Special Prosecutor, August
19, 1988. 6.
Testimony of Zózima García before the Special Prosecutor, August 19,
1988. 7.
Testimony of Delfina Pariona Palomino de Echeccaya before the Special
Prosecutor, August 19, 1988. 8.
Photograph of the Army officer in command of the patrol that arrested
Jovita García, Alejandro Echeccaya and Samuel García Palomino. 9.
Report of the exhumation conducted of the body of Jovita García Suárez,
August 10, 1988. 10.
Autopsy report for Jovita García, August 10, 1988. 11.
Report of the proceeding to continue with exhumation of the bodies from
the grave on Mount Pucutuccasa, August 19, 1988, wherein it is established that
the bodies had disappeared. 12.
Forensic Medicine Report No. 5228/88 on portions of the heart, lungs and
skin from the body of Jovita García. 13.
Forensic Medicine Report No. 5191/88 on fragments from the cranium of
Jovita García. 14.
Ballistics report No. 2901/88 on the two shells found on August 10, 1988,
during the exhumation conducted on Mount Pucutuccasa. 15.
Forensic biology report No. 2569/88. 16.
Forensic biologic report No. 2493/88, done on the bloodstains on a hat
and on stones. 17.
Forensic biology report No. 2522/88, done on fragments of bone, two large
leaves and hair. 18.
Anatomical pathological study No. 200-88, on portions of the body of
Jovita García. 7.
Disappearance of Guzmán Bautista Palomino, Gregorio Ipurre Ramos,
Humberto Ipurre Bautista, Benigna Palomino de Ipurre and Catalina Ramos Palomino On the night of June 29,
1988, uniformed Army soldiers arrested GUZMAN BAUTISTA PALOMINO, GREGORIO IPURRE
RAMOS, HUMBERTO IPURRE BAUTISTA, BENIGNA PALMINO DE IPURRE and CATALINA RAMOS
PALOMINO in their homes in Cayara, and took them via Army truck to the garrison
that had been set up in Cayara. The
first two were on the list of names read by General Valdivia, taken from the
anonymous letter. They were also
key witnesses to the events that occurred in Cayara and had made statements in
the presence of Prosecutor Escobar, the Senate Investigating Committee and the
Peruvian press. The last three of
these individuals were the father, mother and sister of Gregorio Ipurre Ramos,
respectively. In the early morning
hours, the detainees were put in an Army truck that headed out in the direction
of the Huancapi Military Base. To
date, the five individuals named here are still listed as arrested-disappeared. EVIDENCE 1.
Investigations No. 476 and No. 477 by the Special Prosecutor into
complaints filed by relatives concerning disappearances. 2. Testimony by relatives of the disappeared to members of Americas Watch,
published in Tolerating Abuses, Violations of Human Rights in Peru, an
Americas Watch Report, October 1988, pp. 49-50. [
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