69
197(36)
May 9, 1992 was the last day of the “operative”, and at 6:00 hours the
attack against pavilion 4B was reinitiated with greater intensity, with grenades,
gunshots, explosions, and fires that caused several deaths and injuries.71
197(37)
At approximately 18:00 hours of that same day the inmates
announced to the state agents that they were coming out and they asked them to
stop shooting. Groups of unarmed inmates, made up mainly by people labeled as
members of the head of Sendero Luminoso, exited the pavilion, when they were
reached by bursts of bullets fired by state agents. The majority of those inmates
died. Later, a large number of inmates exited pavilion 4B, at a fast pace. The
security agents of the State shot at them indiscriminately and in different parts of
their bodies, even when they were injured on the floor. Later, between screams,
insults, and struggles the police officers separated the men from the women and
forced them to lie face down in the areas known as “no man’s land” and
“admissions”.72
197(38)
When the inmates were under the control of state agents, some were
separated from the group and killed by state agents.73 One of the bodies presented
mutilations and signs of torture.74
197(39)
The majority of the inmates that were killed presented between 3 and
12 bullet wounds to the head and thorax.75
71
Cfr. Final Report of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, CVR, issued on August 27,
2003, in the city of Lima, Peru, Volume VII, section 2(68), Extrajudicial killings in the criminal center
Canto Grande, pages 778 and 779 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 6, corresponding to a
compact disc).
72
Cfr. Final Report of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, CVR, issued on August 27,
2003, in the city of Lima, Peru, Volume VII, section 2(68), Extrajudicial killings in the criminal center
Canto Grande, pages 780 to 782 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 6, corresponding to a
compact disc); written testimonial statements of Luis Angel Pérez Zapata, Egdar Galán Martínez, Glicerio
Aguirre Pacheco, Madeleine Valle Rivera, Miguel Enrique Cruz Suaña, and Hernán Collazos Roja (dossier of
appendixes to the petition, appendixes 114, 157, 229, 100, 142, and 222, folios 1503, 1987, 2545, 1407,
1848, and 2502); and testimonial statement offered by Gaby Balcázar Medina in the public hearing before
the Inter-American Court held on the 26th and 27th days of June 2006.
73
Cfr. Final Report of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, CVR, issued on August 27,
2003, in the city of Lima, Peru, Volume V, section 2(22), The Prisons, pages 703 and 704 and Volume VII,
section 2(68), Extrajudicial killings in the criminal center Canto Grande, page 782 to 784 (dossier of
appendixes to the petition, appendix 6, corresponding to a compact disc); police report No. 121-04DIRINCRI PNP/DIVIHOM-DEPINLES.GOP. of the National Police Department of Peru, Homicide Division
(dossier of appendixes to the response to the petition, folio 5207); and written testimonial statements of
Carlos Manuel Torres Mendoza, Pablo Carranza Retuerto, Rafael Evaristo Fernandez, and Crisineo Neira
Torres (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendixes 125, 127, 131, and 138, folios 1683, 1698,
1742, and 1803).
74
Cfr. Final Report of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, CVR, issued on August 27,
2003, in the city of Lima, Peru, Volume VII, section 2(68), Extrajudicial killings in the criminal center
Canto Grande, page 784 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 6, corresponding to a compact
disc); and testimonial statement offered by Julia Peña Castillo in the public hearing before the InterAmerican Court held on the 26th and 27th days of June 2006.
75
Cfr. Autopsy certificates (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 278, folios 3285 through
3324); expert forensic reports (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 279, folios 3326 through
3384); and expert forensic ballistic reports (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 281, folios
3409 through 3465).