with the wife of Captain Villasmil Antunez, the officer in charge of the combat training exercise, who allegedly was aware of the affair and had threatened the alleged victim.23 The parents asserted that even though Mr. Ortiz was going through a barbed wire fence, there were no scratches on his corpse or any wound caused by the barbed wire fence; that the bullet wounds from a short range machine gun had no exit holes;24 that eighty students had made it through the obstacle without any trouble and that “the shots had hit him in the upper right side of the body” when, based on the location of the machine gun and the instructor, these [shots] “should have been lodged in the left side.”25Subsequently, his parents denounced that according to the testimony of a classmate of the alleged victim, he didn’t even make it into the “rabbit hole,” but instead, when he arrived in combat training exercise, “he was holding his arm crying out: He hit me, He hit me.”26 42. There a number of different forensic medical reports issued after the death of Johan Alexis. For example, one establishes that Johan Alexis entered the Hospital with a bullet wound “with an entry orifice at the level of the anterior axillar line rounded [more or less] 1 cmwide [illegible] bloody and an exit [orifice] supra supraclavicular [more or less] 3 cms long with active bleeding.” Another one is the autopsy [report], which indicates that he presented a puncture wound caused by a gunshot with an entry orifice, though with no exit orifice.27 43. The body of Mr. Ortiz has was taken into the morgue of the Central Hospital of San Cristóbal at around 8:00 PM, in a clean state, without any traces of blood and with a “multicolored bathing suit on him.” His parents claimed that they were informed that they could receive the body “[… it would be] ready 15 or 20 minutes after the autopsy was performed in a condition to receive it in a closed urn and not to open it,” which they declined.They charged that the body of their son remained “exposed in a stretcher over night without the minimum conditions of preservation” and that they waited to be able to receive it until the following morning, without being given any explanation or reason why he had been left in those conditions, which was why they were only able “take him out of the morgue directly to the cemetery.”28 23See for example, Annex 16. Complaint brought by Edgar Humberto Ortiz and Zaida Hernández before President of the Justice Foundation Elias Pernia, of May 5, 1998. Annex to the original petition of March 15, 2000; and Annex 18. Submission of Mrs. Zaida Hernández, provided to the media, on the subject of the decision of the Military Trial Judge of Guasdualito. Annex 4 of petitioners’ submission of August 28, 2000. 24Annex 16. Complaint brought by Edgar Humberto Ortiz and Zaida Hernández before President of the Justice Foundation Elias Pernia, of May 5, 1998. Annex to the original petition of March 15, 2000. The photographs cited in said complaint were also submitted as exhibits to the IACHR case file. Also see, Case Report written by Edgar Ortiz and Zaida Hernández. Section titled “Details pertaining to the death of Johan Alexis Ortiz,” pg. 16. Annex to petitioners’ submission received on June 16, 2000. A similar account of Mr. Ortiz was brought to the attention of the Fourth Prosecuting Attorney of the Ministry of Public Prosecution on February 17, 1998. Annex 19. Submission of February 17, 1998, addressed to Dr. Hernan Roa Contreras, Fourth Prosecuting Attorney of the Ministry of Public Prosecution, signed by Edgar Ortiz and Zaida Hernández. Annex to petitioners’ submission of June 16, 2000. 25Annex 16. Complaint brought by Edgar Humberto Ortiz and Zaida Hernández before President of the Justice Foundation Elias Pernia, of May 5, 1998. Annex to the original petition of March 15, 2000. As an annex to that complaint and in the IACHR case file, there was also a picture provided with a visual explanation of the obstacle course, the location of the obstacles and the persons who took part (Annex 20). Also see letter addressed to the President of the Republic, Hugo Chavez Frias in February 1999, by Mrs. Zaida Hernandez, titled “Entreaty of a mother to President Hugo Chavez.” The text of said letter appears verbatim in Annex 21. Book Las calaveras tienen lenguaEl asesinato de Johan Alexis, Estudiante de la GN [‘Skulls have tongues: The murder of Johan Alexis, NG student’] Pgs. 172-173 and Letter addressed to the President of the Republic, Hugo Chavez Frias, by Mrs. Zaida Hernández, dated May 23, 1999. The text of said letter has been printed verbatim in the Annex 21. Book Las calaveras tienen lengua. El asesinato de Johan Alexis, Estudiante de la GN, pgs. 174-180. 26Annex 22. Communication of May 25, 1998, addressed to Minister of Defense, Vice Admiral Tito Manlio Rincón Bravo, by Zaida Hernández de Arellano and Edgar Humberto Ortiz. Annex to the original petition of March 15, 2000. Also see: Annex 16. Complaint brought by Edgar Humberto Ortiz and Zaida Hernández with President of Justice Foundation Elias Pernia, of May 5, 1998. Annex to the original petition of March 15, 2000. 27 See: Annex 9. Medical report of the Regional Directorate of the National Health System, State of Tachira, El PiñalHospital, dated February 15, 1998. Signed by Dr. Lucy Vega as attending physician. Annex to certificate of judicial inspection conducted by the Court of the Parrish of the Municipality of Monseñor Alejandro Fernández Feo of the Judicial District of the State of Tachira in the main building of the El Piñal Hospital, dated August 27, 1998. Both documents are attached to petitioners’ submission received on June 16, 2000; and Annex 5. Forensic medical report of March 2, 1998, written by Dr. Ana Cecilia Rincón Bracho and Dr. Nelson Jesús Báez Jordan. Official Letter No. 001128. Annex to petitioners’ submission received on June 16, 2000. 28Annex 15. Case report written by Edgar Ortiz and Zaida Hernández. Section titled “Details pertaining to the death of Johan Alexis Ortiz,” pgs. 16 and 18. Annex to petitioners’ submission received on June 16, 2000. Also see: Annex 16. 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