72 daily suffering and went through a counterproductive, brutal learning process, which in part explains the high recidivism rate among the inmates.97 The fires at the Center 134.25 Over the last 10 years, there were a number of clashes at the Center between inmates and guards and among the inmates themselves.98 Subsequent to the date on which the present case was filed with the Inter-American Commission, which was in 1996, the Center had three fires (infra paragraphs 134.29, 134.33 and 134.34). 134.26 Because it was a juvenile detention facility, a number of international organizations, national nongovernmental organizations, and individuals reported the dangerous situation at the ‘Panchito López’ Center to the Senate Human Rights Commission, the Paraguayan Ambassador in Washington, D.C., and to the Ministry of Justice and Labor.99 However, those complaints failed to bring about any significant change in the conditions under which the children were held.100 97 Cf. expert testimony given by Mr. Mario Torres before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights at the public hearing held on May 3, 2004; document titled “Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Paraguay 06/11/2001” CRC/C/15/Add.166 (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 51, folio 612); document titled “‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Correctional Facility, 1998 Report” (file of appendixes to the brief of preliminary objections, answer to the application and comments on the pleadings and motions, appendix 13, volume I, folio 293); testimony given by young Clemente Luis Escobar González in the presence of a person with legal authority to authenticate documents, March 30, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, representatives’ appendix, folio 235); testimony given by Mr. Juan Antonio de la Vega Elorza in the presence of a person with legal authority to authenticate documents, December 10, 1993, which is in the file for the petition of generic habeas Corpus filed with the Civil and Commercial Law Court of First Instance, Ninth Rotation, on behalf of the juveniles in the ‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Reeducation Institute (file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 1B, volume II, folios 371-372); April 12, 1994 report by psychiatric experts Dr. Carlos Alberto Arestivo, Lic. Genaro Rivera Hunter and Lic. Mario Torres, which is in the file of the petition of generic habeas corpus filed with the Civil and Commercial Law Court of First Instance, Ninth Rotation, on behalf of the juveniles in the ‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Reeducation Institute (file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 1D, volume II, folios 379-380 and 382); questions that Ms. Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director of CEJIL, asked of young Raúl Esteban Portillo, and his answers to them, which appear in a document dated March 25, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, representatives’ appendix, folio 273). 98 Cf. Report of the Coordinator of Human Rights of Paraguay (CODEHUPY), “Human Rights in Paraguay, 1996” (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 55, folio 648); July 17, 2001 letter from Mr. Eustacio Rodríguez Benítez to Dr. Silvio Ferreira, Minister of Justice and Labor (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 29, folio 422); results of the laboratory analysis done on the bodies of young Elvio Epifanio Acosta Ocampos and Sergio Daniel Vega Figueredo (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 32-B, folios 470-474); Record No. 14 of February 11, 2000, prepared by the DAEP Senior Chief Franco Ferreira Rodríguez, Head of the Legal Department, Asunción, Paraguay (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 33, folio 475); Record of February 18, 2000, concerning the statement made by Mr. Freddy Portillo before the Criminal Court of First Instance, Eighth Rotation (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 34, folio 477); Record of March 13, 2000, concerning the statement made by Mr. Jorge Melitón Bittar Cortessi before the Criminal Court of First Instance, Eighth Rotation (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 35, folio 479). 99 Cf. document titled “Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Paraguay 06/11/2001” CRC/C/15/Add.166 (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 51, folios 601613, esp. 612); complaint that “Defence of Children International” filed on March 20, 2000, with the Senate Human Rights Commission, published at http://www.diarioabc.com.py (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 53, folio 634); notes dated February 6 and 7, 2001, sent by nongovernmental organizations and public figures to the Ambassador of Paraguay in Washington, D.C., concerning human rights violations at the ‘Panchito López’ Center (file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 16, volume I, folios 83-90); note of February 8, 2001, from the Ambassador of