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day he was transferred to the Alcides Carrión Hospital, where they did not continue
with his medical treatment. He was placed in a completely anti-hygienic cell. In
August 1992 he was taken back to the Criminal Center Castro Castro, where the
mistreatment continued. He was constantly beaten, forced to go outside to the yard
naked in the winter to be inspected, they never let him work, nor did he have access
to the media, and they did not let him read or cure his eye, which led to an infection.
On various occasions his food had grounded glass, urine, rests of rat parts, and it
was not given warm or at adequate hours. Therefore, the cases of tuberculosis and
infections increased. His mother was submitted to humiliations in the inspections
carried out in order to enter the criminal center.
In mid November of 1994 ‘faceless’ judges prosecuted him and he was acquitted.
Once released he was harassed, persecuted, arrested and stigmatized as a terrorist
by the Peruvian government. Therefore he could not reinsert himself in the Peruvian
society, and this led him to request refuge initially in the Republic of Bolivia and later
in the Republic of Chile. His lifestyle after the facts has been very precarious, since
he has physical handicaps and considerable neurological and psychological damages,
reason for which his health worsens every day, which has prevented him from
obtaining a job or studying.
The witness requests that the State be convicted, that the corresponding measures
of reparation and fair satisfaction be granted to him, and that those responsible for
the acts that, pursuant to Peruvian legislation, constitute genocide perpetrated
against a political group be criminally punished.
12.
Alfredo Poccorpachi Vallejos, alleged victim
He was imprisoned in the Criminal Center Castro Castro accused of terrorism at the
time in which the facts occurred. On May 6, 1992 he saw officers of DINOES (elite
police force) on the rooftops of the pavilions, and on the in the roundhouse “with
command uniforms, guns, and balaclavas.” He could hear gunshots and explosions
and the tear gas bombs reached pavilion 4B, where he was located. The prisoners
reached that pavilion through a conduit. From that pavilion “they scream[ed] to the
authorities of the criminal center to respect the life of the prisoners[,] to stop the
attack and talk to the delegates, but […] the calls to the Director of the criminal
center were in vain.” The inmate Janet Talavera was riddled thirty meters from
where he was standing, when some inmates were exiting pavilion 4B.
Later, the inmates were transferred to different criminal centers without informing
their next of kin. The witness was transferred to the criminal center Lurigancho,
where the inmates were “hardly beaten in presence of the Prosecutor Mirtha
Campos.” During the trajectory to an unknown destination, the prisoners were
beaten. Inmates were submitted to “beatings [and] torture.” In the prison “they
[were] submitted to an absolute isolation[,] without clothes, and in general without
the most minimum provision of elemental needs.” He considers that “the objective
was to eliminate them systematically both physically and morally, reducing them to
inhuman conditions.”
He was under medical treatment for suffering of tuberculosis and due to the events
described his treatment was suspended and his “health worsened notably due to the
abuse to which he was submitted, the tear gas bombs, and the multiple explosions in
the pavilions, tortures, and beatings.” As a consequence of the attack to the Criminal
Center Castro Castro his tuberculosis worsened, and “the lack of adequate treatment