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Ibsen Cárdenas and José Luis Ibsen Peña; the measures carried out to determine
their whereabouts; the alleged lack of will on the part of the State to investigate
the alleged disappearances; and the consequences of these situations, among
other things.
b)
Rebeca Ibsen Castro. Alleged victim. Declaration proposed by the
representatives. Rendered a statement regarding, the alleged disappearance of
Messrs. Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas and José Luis Ibsen Peña; the measures carried out
to determine their whereabouts; the alleged lack of will on the part of the State to
investigate the alleged disappearances; the obstacles that she allegedly faced in
her search for the truth regarding the alleged disappearances and the punishment
of those responsible; and the consequences of these situations, among other
things.
c)
Renato Estevan Díaz Matta. Witness. Declaration proposed by the InterAmerican Commission and the representatives. Rendered a statement on Rainer
Ibsen Cárdenas's experiences in a detention center of La Paz, Bolivia; José Luis
Ibsen Peña's experiences in a detention center of Santa Cruz, Bolivia; and the
dialogue the witness allegedly sustained with both alleged victims, among other
things.
d)
Hilda Saavedra Serrano and Ledy Catoira Moreno. Witnesses. Declarations
proposed by the representatives. Rendered statements on the alleged deprivation
of Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas’s liberty at different detention centers of La Paz; the
alleged acts of torture committed by agents of the State; the circumstances and
events surrounding Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas’s alleged murder and subsequent forced
disappearance; and the alleged bad faith in the handling of public reports, among
other things.
e)
Juan Cristóbal Soruco Quiroga. Expert witness. Licensed in Social
Communication and Director of Los Tiempos de Cochabamba newspaper. Expert
opinion proposed by the Inter-American Commission. Referred to the context in
which the facts of the case occurred and, in particular, to the human rights
situation during the military dictatorship of Hugo Banzer Suárez, among other
things.
41. Regarding the evidence rendered at the public hearing, the Court heard the
statements and expert opinions of the following persons:
a) Tito Ibsen Castro. Alleged victim. Declaration proposed by the Inter-American
Commission and the representatives. Rendered a statement regarding the alleged
forced disappearance of Rainer Ibsen Cárdenas and José Luis Ibsen Peña; the
measures carried out to determine their whereabouts; the alleged lack of will on
the part of the State to investigate the alleged disappearances; and the
consequences of these situations, among other things.
b) Delia Cortez F. Witness. Declaration proposed by the State. Rendered a
statement regarding, inter alia, the bodily remains allegedly belonging to Rainer
Ibsen Cárdenas that were found in 1983; the search for the remains of Mr. José
Luis Ibsen; as well as the remains found in clandestine graves in the 1980s and
buried in the Mausoleum of ASOFAMD, according to information published in 1983
by the National Commission for the Investigation of Persons Forcibly Disappeared.