2 was given two months to submit its answer. The Commission received the State’s answer on January 11, 2008; it was duly transmitted to the petitioner. The petitioner submitted observations on February 20, 2008, which were duly forwarded to the State. III. THE PARTIES’ POSITIONS A. The petitioner 5. The petitioner alleged that the State is responsible for the failure to investigate the forced disappearances of Luis Eduardo González González and Oscar Tassino Asteazu, and the extrajudicial executions of Diana Maidanic, Laura Raggio Odizzio, and Silvia Reyes during the military dictatorship in Uruguay. In addition, it argues that the State has not guaranteed the right to truth with regard to what happened, or access to justice through adequate and effective remedies. Luis Eduardo González González 6. The petitioner indicated that on December 13, 1974, Luis Eduardo González González, a medical student and member of the Partido Comunista Revolucionario, was detained at his home along with his wife, Elena Zaffaroni, who was pregnant1, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Nonetheless, it indicated that subsequently Army Division I issued a communiqué on December 26, 1974, in which it indicated that Luis Eduardo González González “had fled a procedure for identification” and that on January 11, 1975, had been summonsed through a press release by the Joint Forces. In addition, it asserted that Army Division I informed his mother and complainant María Amalia González that he had fled. The petitioner reported that that the last time his wife saw him he was in very poor physical condition. 7. In addition, the petitioner indicated that other persons who were also detained testified that Luis Eduardo González González had been seen at the Sixth Cavalry Regiment, noting his physical and psychological deterioration due to the torture to which he had been subjected. It reported that those persons argued that given the state of Luis Eduardo González González’s health, it was impossible for him to have taken flight. 8. Finally, it asserted that on July 2, 2003, the Peace Commission (Comisión para la Paz) concluded that Luis Eduardo González González and his wife were transferred to Cavalry Regiment No. 6; that he had died on December 26, 1974 at that military unit as a result of the torture he suffered; that, as in other cases, the military authorities made up the version that he had fled the military establishment; and that his remains had been buried in the building corresponding to Battalion 14 of Toledo and exhumed, incinerated, and cast into the River Plate in late 1984. 9. Despite the conclusions of the Peace Commission, the petitioner argued that Luis Eduardo González González continues to be a victim of forced disappearance and alleged that the false information provided by military personnel constituted a strategy for preserving impunity. Oscar Tassino Asteazu 10. The petitioner indicated, as reported by his wife Ms. Disnarda Flores, that Oscar Tassino Asteazu, a trade union leader and activist in the Partido Comunista Revolucionario, had been brutally beaten by members of the Joint Forces on the property in Montevideo, Uruguay 1 Based on the information in the record, the Commission does not have other information related to Ms. Elena Zaffaroni upon admitting this petition.