4 years), and Edith Onayo Hilario (age eight months); Wilmer Hilario Carhuapoma (age three years); the brothers Alex Jorge Hilario Guillén (age six years), Raúl Hilario Guillén (age 18 months), and Héctor Hilario Guillén (age six years); and eight adults: Francisco Hilario Torres (age 60 years); Dionicia Quispe Mallqui (age 57 years), her two daughters, Antonia Hilario Quispe (age 31 years) and Magdalena Hilario Quispe (age 26 years), and her daughterin-law Mercedes Carhuapoma de la Cruz (age 20 years); Ramón Hilario Morán (age 26), Dionicia Guillén Riveros (age 24), and Elihoref Huamaní Vergara (age 22). 16. They say that these detentions/disappearances occurred on July 4, 1991, in the campesino community of Santa Barbara, Huancavelica Province, and that they were carried out by Peruvian army personnel from Huancavelica and Lircay Military Bases. 17. By way of background information, they say that on July 3, 1991, members of the Peruvian army from Santa Teresita Military Base in Huancavelica and Lircay Military Base launched a military operation codenamed “Apolonia”, and moved into the Huaroccopata and Pallcapampa sectors of the Santa Barbara community. In the course of the operation, the soldiers reportedly detained 10 campesino farmers, in spite of the fact that the latter supposedly handed over livestock to secure their release. They say that on July 4, 1991, before being released, they were taken to the Rudiopampa sector, where they witnessed a violent raid by soldiers accompanied by civilians thought to belong to the campesino militia of Lircay, who entered homes and committed a series of acts of larceny and abuses, including the appropriation of 780 animals. 18. The petitioners say that the same day, July 3, 1991, the community’s council of elders reported these incidents to the Office of the Huancavelica Provincial Prosecutor for Crime Prevention, by means of official letter No. 020 CCSB-91. They say given the fact that several members of the community reported the theft of the livestock to the Directive Council of the community, the latter reported these claims in writing to the Office of the Prosecutor for Crime Prevention. They say that the summary of the charges contained in the complaint that the president of the community, Nicolás Hilario Morán, presented to the Office of the Huancavelica Provincial Prosecutor for Crime Prevention on July 8, 1991, noted the detention of 14 community members and the theft of 300 sheep, 450 alpacas, 15 horses, and 19 head of cattle, among other property, and that this was reiterated and elaborated upon at the Office of the Special Attorney of the Ombudsman in Lima on July 23, 1991, and set down in writing on August 2, 1991. 19. According to the petitioners, on July 4, 1991, the soldiers and the civilians who were accompanying them raided the homes of Francisco Hilario Torres and Ramón Hilario Morán, both of which are situated on a ranch in a spot known as Laccaypampa, in the Rudiopampa sector, and that after causing damages and appropriating the animals and other property, they detained and took away everyone inside (14 people, seven of them children), none of whom has been heard from since. 20. The petitioners note that on July 4, 1991, the provincial prosecutor, Luz Gladys Roque Montesillo, made her way to “Santa Teresita” Military Base in order to verify the claims, which she was unable to do as the base commander, Captain Jesús Rodríguez Franco, refused because the operation had not finished; however, he said that there was no one detained on the base. 21. The petitioners also say that on July 4, 1991, Mr. Alejandro Huamaní Robles and his 22-year-old son, Elihoref Huamaní Vergara, were on their way from their ranch, “Uña Corral”, in the community of Santa Barbara, to Acobamba to bring in the harvest when they ran into a 15-man army patrol, which forced Elihoref Huamaní Vergara to accompany them. Elihoref Huamaní Vergara has not been seen since. 22. According to the petitioners, on July 11, 1991, Viviano Hilario Mancha, the father of Ramón Hilario Morán, who was detained/disappeared on July 4, 1991, together with his wife and two sons, went to the Varallón mine known as “Misteriosa” in Chunomayo (Community of Huachocolpa), to look for his missing relatives. At the mine entrance he reportedly saw the body of his six-year-old grandson Héctor Hilario Guillén along with a number of other half-buried bodies, whereupon he left in a panic. The petitioners say that Viviano Hilario Mancha reported the discovery of the bodies to Huancavelica Provincial Prosecutor's Office and to Huancavelica Examining