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PROCEEDING BEFORE THE COMMISSION
7.
On May 24, 1997, Guadalupe Yllaconza-Ramirez de Baldeón and Crispín
Baldeón-Yllaconza (hereinafter “the petitioners”) filed a petition before the InterAmerican Commission for the alleged illegal and arbitrary detention, torture and
extra-judicial execution of their next of kin, Bernabé Baldeón-García, allegedly
performed by members of the Peruvian armed forces.
8. On July 3, 1997, the Commission ordered the commencement of the case of
Baldeón-García under number 11,767.
9.
On October 19, 2004, the Commission, pursuant to Article 50 of the
Convention, approved the admissibility and merits report No. 77/04, in which it
concluded that the State was responsible for the violation of Article 4 (Right to Life),
Article 5 (Right to Humane Treatment), Article 7 (Right to Personal Liberty), Article 8
(Right to a Fair Trial) and Article 25 (Right to Judicial Protection) of the American
Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) (Obligation to respect Rights) of the same.
Likewise, it considered that the State should adopt the following recommendations:
1.
To make a thorough, impartial, effective and immediate investigation of the
facts in order to determine the circumstances under which Bernabé Baldeón-García was
extra-judicially executed, and to identify all those persons that participated in the events
at the different levels of decision making and execution, and also to speed up the
criminal proceedings and to impose the corresponding punishment.
2.
To make a thorough, impartial and effective investigation of the persons that
had taken part in the previous defective investigations and proceedings commenced due
to the execution of Bernabé Baldeón-García, in order to make a determination as to the
responsibility of such persons for the lack of investigation that derived in the impunity
surrounding such case.
3.
To provide adequate reparation to Guadalupe Yllaconza-Ramirez and to the
children of the victim, respectively, including both the moral and the material damage
caused due to the violations of their human rights.
10.
On November 11, 2004, the Commission sent the admissibility and merits
report to the State granting it a term of two months to adopt the recommendations
set forth therein.
11.
On the same date, the Commission, pursuant to Article 43(3) of its Rules of
Procedure, sent a notice to the petitioners informing them about the adoption of the
report and the remittance of that report to the State and requested the petitioners
to submit a brief stating their comments regarding the possible filing of the case
before the Inter-American Court for its consideration.
12. On December 14, 2004, the petitioners stated that the case should be
submitted to the Court for consideration.
13. On December 22, 2004, Peru informed the Commission that “in order to
partially comply with the recommendations made in report No. 77/04, on December
7, 2004, the Fiscalía Superior de Ayacucho (Superior Prosecutor’s Office of
Ayacucho) ordered that the records of the investigation about the detention, torture
and death of Bernabé Baldeón-García be sent to the Fiscalía Especializada en
Derechos Humanos, Desapariciones Forzadas, Ejecuciones Extrajudiciales, y