29 during the dictatorship of Hugo Bánzer. According to the weekly publication, the remains of Mr. Ibsen Cárdenas were among the remains identified.93 85. On February 22, 1983, the administrator of the General Cemetery of La Paz at the time in which the abovementioned remains were first buried presented an "Informative Statement” before the Ministry of the Interior, Migration, and Justice of Bolivia, indicating that the bodies which had been discovered reached the cemetery “in vehicles belonging to the Clinical Hospital (Hospital de Clínicas) with their respective Death Certificate[s], [which were] allegedly signed by [a] forensic doctor [named] Sales.” He also stated that cemetery personnel established the identity of the bodies delivered “[a]ccording to the certificates that came with” each one.94 However, a press release furnished by the State indicates that the National Commission for Investigation found “irregularities in the death and registration certificates.” That press release states that “[a]ccording to the members of the [National] Commission [of Investigation], the edges of the certificates were deliberately cut[, and that] those pieces contained the names of the people who delivered the bodies to cemetery personnel.”95 On the other hand, according to statements rendered by persons who worked at the General Cemetery of La Paz, also provided by the State, the bodies found by the National Commission of Investigation arrived at the Cemetery on different dates96 and without “death certificate[s] issued by the Civil Registrar.”97 Furthermore, the statements indicate that no visual inspection was carried out on the bodies before being buried, given that “in accordance with the law, a judicial order is necessary to establish such a situation.”98 93 Cf. Press release published at the weekly newspaper Aquí of April 30 to May 6, 1983, “Identity of disappeared persons is being verified” (case file of appendixes to the brief of pleadings and motions, PD-114, folios 2317 and 2318). 94 Cf. “Information Testimony rendered by Col. Luis Gomez Casaz” on February 22, 1983 before the Ministry of the Interior, Immigration and Justice (case file on the merits, volume V, folios 1736 to 1737) . 95 Cf. Press release published on February 19, 1983 at Presencia, “Graves of fourteen ‘disappeared persons’ were identified at the Cemetery of La Paz” (case file of appendixes to the answer to the application, appendix 7, folios 11084 to 11085). 96 Cf. “Police Information Testimony rendered by Mr. Lizandro Romero Ortiz” on April 13, 1983 ante la División de Homicidios de Criminalística (case file on the merits, volume V, folio 1738), y “Police Information Testimony rendered by Mr. Bernardino Hernán Ibáñez Ríos” el 13 de abril de 1983 ante la División de Homicidios de Criminalística (case file on the merits, volume V, folio 1741). According to Mr. Romero Ortiz, los “entierros seguramente fuer[o]n en varias oportunidades […]”.En este mismo sentido, el señor Ibáñez Ríos declaró que “evidently th[ese] corpses were registered in different dates in the book[,] registrado[s] tal cual como consta actualmente en el respectivo libro de inhumaciones y tal como se puede deducir de los certificados de defunción [actualmente] existentes en el archivo”. 97 “Police Information Testimony rendered by Mr. Lizandro Romero Ortiz” on April 13, 1983 before the Criminology Division of Murders (case file on the merits, volume V, folio 1739), and “Police Information Testimony rendered by Mr. Bernardino Hernán Ibáñez Ríos” on April 13, 1983 before the Criminology Division of Murders (case file on the merits, volume V, folio 1741). On this regard, Mr. Romero Ortiz mentioned that the registry of the buried corpes “was made according to the forensic death certificate at the time [.] Any entries were not registered, since any death certificates issued by the Officer of the Civil Registrar were showed[;] […] currently, those certificates exist in the statistics section of the cemetery [sic]”. In the same token, Mr. Ibáñez Ríos declared that “these registries were carried out in a normal manner, just like it is made nowadays and always accordingly to the book of existing statistics registries, that, in this case, it could be stablished that the burials of this investigation did not have the corresponding authorization issued by the Officer of the Civil Registrar, and in the mentioned cases only existed the forensic physician certificate.” 98 “Police Information Testimony rendered by Mr. Bernardino Hernán Ibáñez Ríos” on April 13, 1983 before the Criminology Division of Murders (case file on the merits, volume V, folio 1742), and “Police Information Testimony rendered by Mr. Lizandro Romero Ortiz” on April 13, 1983 before the Criminology Division of Murders (case file on the merits, volume V, folio 1739). According to Mr. Romero Ortiz, he “he could not observe the [corpses] since the four of them […] that he had to bury were [h]ermetically sealed and they addressed