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interviewed by Mrs. Goldenberg who told her that he knew that the leading
detainees were taken to San Lorenzo naval base and were executed.
b)
Testimony of Pilar Coll (social worker)
In August 1987, she was assigned to an office of the Investigative
Commission of the Congress in charge of gathering testimonies by the
detainees' relatives in the prisons and survivors. Jesús Mejía Huerta told her
in an interview, more openly, exactly what the previous witness had declared.
She pointed out that some detainees' relatives knew that some survivors had
already disappeared.
c)
Judgment of Guillermo Tamayo Pinto Bazurco (civil engineer)
In 1987, the Center of Projects and Constructions, from which he was
President, was hired by the commission of the Congress in charge of
investigating the events in the prisons to technically assess what had
happened in the Blue Pavilion from an engineering point of view. He visited El
Frontón, whose Blue Pavilion was demolished. The total demolition was
carried out by means of plastic explosives that were placed at columns'
bottom. He also declared having observed tracks of the expansive wave
outside the building, as well as the existence of 20 meters of tunnels that did
not affect structure strength; there were no traces of explosions.
d)
Opinion by Enrique Bernardo Cangahuala (civil engineer)
The deponent stated that he was hired by the commission of the Senate to
carry out an assessment, from a civil engineering point of view, on the
situation that took place in San Juan Bautista prison. After visiting the place
and gathering antecedents, he got involved in the report preparation. The
Engineering Association adopted this report, where they found that the
tunnels did not lead to the coast's openings or evidence of explosives in the
Pavilion columns was available. With the help of ten workers, it would have
been possible to eliminate all the debris in the pavilion within a month. If the
intention of using explosives had been to clear the Pavilion, they would have
been placed on the walls. According to their his opinion, explosives were
placed to demolish the building. There is no evidence of a possible explosion
inside the building. A plastic explosive could not cause a casual dynamite
sympathetic explosion. There was also the possibility that people could use
the tunnels as shelter but could not leave them.
e)
Testimony of Ricardo Aurelio Chumbes Paz (attorney and court
judge)
During the period of the facts he was a Judge in charge of preliminary of the
stage of criminal proceedings of Callao. On June 18, 1986, he listened on the
radio the news on the riots in El Frontón, and, at about 1 p.m. the President
of the Supreme Court entrusted him with observing the facts, reporting them
afterwards, but not being entitled for making decisions. Navy officials denied
him means to move to the Penal Island. At 3:30 or 4 p.m., he received an
habeas corpus in his office presented by the prisoners' attorney, and at about