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occupied by Ana Regnier and Hermes Fulle, and subsequently placed into a vehicle with his face
covered on July 19, 1977. It asserted that based on the information obtained, the perpetrators of that
detention had been identified as Colonel Ernesto Ramas and Lieutenant Colonel Augusto Ferro.
11.
The petitioner argued that subsequent to the detention of Oscar Tassino Asteazu on
July 19, 1977, a person heard the torture to which Oscar Tassino Asteazu was subjected at the
clandestine center of detention known as “La Tablada” in Uruguay, since that person was also
detained at said center.
12.
In addition, the petitioner noted that in the context of the steps taken to determine
his whereabouts, a captain with the Intelligence Service informed Disnarda Flores at the Joint High
Command (Estado Mayor Conjunto) that Oscar Tassino Asteazu was summonsed as of May 1, 1977,
to go to the National Directorate of Information and Intelligence of the Office of the Chief of Police
of Montevideo. It indicated that said office reported that Oscar Tassino Asteazu had been detained
in January 1974 and released within four days of his detention. It indicated that by communiqué of
December 15, 1980, the Government reported that Oscar Tassino Asteazu was summoned by the
authorities for having participated in subversive activities. It indicated that in 1988, the Office of the
Military Prosecutor reported that he had not been able to obtain evidence that there had been
participation of a given operational group belonging to the Armed Forces or Police Forces at that
property, and that as a result Oscar Tassino Asteazu had been detained.
13.
It asserted that the Peace Commission concluded on July 2, 2003, that Oscar Tassino
Asteazu was detained on July 19, 1977, at a property with the address calle Máximo Tajes No. 6632,
where military personnel had set up a “mousetrap” (“ratonera”); that he was taken to the
clandestine detention center known as “La Tablada”, where he was tortured; that on July 21, 1977
he died due to a violent blow to the head; and that his remains had been buried on the property
corresponding to Battalion 14 of Toledo, and in late 1984 exhumed, incinerated, and cast into the
River Plate.
14.
In contrast to what was found by the Peace Commission, the petitioner indicated that
on August 8, 2005, the Commander of the Army informed President Tabaré Vázquez that Oscar
Tassino Asteazu was detained by the OCOA and taken to “La Tablada”; that he died approximately
July 24, 1977, by suicide while going to the bathroom without his guards; and that his remains were
buried on the property of Battalion I MEC No. 13 and not at Battalion I PARAC No. 14.
15.
Despite the conclusions of the Peace Commission, and what was reported by the
Army Commander in 2005, the petitioner argued that Oscar Tassino Asteazu continues to be a victim
of forced disappearance.
Diana Maidanic, Laura Raggio Odizzio, and Silvia Reyes
16.
The petitioner indicated that in the early morning hours of April 21, 1974, members
of the Joint Forces of the State forcibly entered the property situated at calle Mariano Soler No. 3098
bis, apartment five in Montevideo, Uruguay, the home where Mr. Washington Barrios, his wife Ms.
Hilda Fernández, and their daughter Jacqueline Barrios lived, since they were looking for their son,
Mr. Washington Barrios Fernández, who was an activist in the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional.
It noted that when Mr. Washington Barrios indicated that he was unaware of his son’s whereabouts,
the members of the military went to the third apartment, where the son lived with his wife, Silvia
Reyes, 19 years of age. They indicated that at that moment Mr. Washington Barrios Fernández was
not in the apartment, but that Silvia Reyes was there, along with two friends, Diana Maidanic, 21
years of age, and Laura Raggio Odizzio, 19 years of age. It asserted that when the members of the