12 Joint Command in the crushing action at the prisons; and that one of the survivors informed a third person that there were executions of rioters after they had surrendered, but that, after having been summoned by the Commission to ratify his version, he refused to do so. 52. Witness Rolando Ames-Cobián, a graduate in Political Science, stated that in 1987, while he was a Senator, he was named President of the Congressional Commission created to investigate the events at the three prisons where riots had occurred; that the Commission conducted the inquiry as rigorously as possible; that the majority and minority reports coincide as to the facts, the difference being in the amount of responsibility attributed to the highest echelons of Government in the process of repression at the prisons; that the Government expressed that it did not deem the rebellion at the three prisons to be a problem related to the police, but rather "like the great confrontation between the Government and Sendero Luminoso . . . since the public announcements and the declarations of the President of the Republic are clear in so defining the state of affairs, Sendero Luminoso vs. the Government;" that this led to the crushing of the riots in the shortest possible time through the Joint Command of the Armed Forces; that the twothirds of the Blue Pavilion still standing were demolished by dynamite charges placed on the outside columns, which produced an absolutely unnecessary number of deaths of the persons that were not actively resisting; that no interest was expressed in looking for the wounded or for persons in the tunnels; that access to the prison was not allowed until one year later; that NeiraAlegría and the Zenteno brothers were not among the surrendered prisoners but were on the list that the National Correctional Council gave to the Commission; that the survivors of the riots refused to testify before the Commission; that Congress approved the majority report of the investigative Commission; that the final explosion that demolished the prison occurred not while an intense attack was in progress but instead when the attack ended and that it did not occur as a result of a dynamite explosion but rather by the blasting of the columns that sustained the building; that, in addition to the 28 inmates who surrendered on the actual day of the events, one day later there appeared one or two more, and three days later another one or two; that the investigative Commission requested information about the investigation being carried out by the Supreme Council of Military Justice, but that the Navy Section did not provide any information and even refused to provide the names of the officers who were in charge of the operation; that the Commission did not obtain any evidence that the inmates of the prison had dynamite; that the commission attempted to obtain information as to why instruments such as tear or nerve gas were not used, and it was told that there was no time to apply such methods because of the urgency to crush the riot that same night; and that the rioters did not have any possibility to escape. 53. Witness José Ráez-González, a surgeon, stated that at the request of the Navy he asked the Forensic Medicine Institute to appoint two experts to make studies on the remains of bodies from "El Frontón" and, that in this capacity, he traveled to the island from February to April 1987 and examined more or less 90 corpses; that the purpose of the forensic doctor is to determine the cause of death and help with identification; that the corpses had gone beyond the entire primary putrefaction stage, some were mummified, and others had lost all soft parts and only fragments were left; that in many cases it was not possible to determine the cause of death since only bone remains were available and, that in other cases, it was determined that death occurred because of multiple fractures; that in some cases a description was made of pieces of clothing, size, sex, age, and dental remains; that it is not the responsibility of the doctor to contact the relatives of the victims to try to identify the corpses; that identification is the responsibility of the Investigations Department; that he was able to take fingerprints from some of the corpses; that most of the deaths occurred by crushing; that once the expert examination was concluded, he delivered the records, summaries and comments to the Navy judge and signed the death certificates; that many factors make it impossible to take fingerprints from a corpse; and that he does not remember seeing burns on the corpses.