One way to avoid these facts happening again is for what occurred to be made known publicly and officially, clearly explaining how the facts took place and that the victims were not guerrilla fighters. She is also fearful in testifying before the Court. f) Bladimir Cerón Rojas, a son of Julio Milciades Cerón Gómez and a brother of Wilian Hamilton and Edebraes Norverto, both of them Cerón Rojas. The day of the facts when he was getting ready to go to his secondary school, a plainclothes police officer came, insulted him, pointed a gun at him and told him that his father and brothers had been killed because they were guerrilla fighters, and that only he remained. The officer took him to the police station; there a lieutenant said they should lock him up and that when the helicopter came they should kill him. They also repeated that they had killed his next of kin, which he did not believe. He denied that they were guerrilla fighters; he told them that he was a secondary school student and that his father and brothers worked in the countryside. When he heard the helicopter he thought they were going to kill him. They maltreated him, kicked him, and told him that if he accepted that he was a guerrilla fighter they would set him free. About five o’clock a man in civilian clothing visited the place and told the policemen that they had to release him before six because he was a minor. When they set him free, a policeman told him that they had found weapons and uniforms at his father’s farm. When they told him that his next of kin were dead he lost control. After that he was “very frightened.” Every day when he went to school he passed in front of the police and he thought they were going to lock him up again, for which reason he sought company. Since they were unable to find someone who would go and work on the family farm, he went with his mother to milk the cows even though the police said they should not go because the guerrilla forces might do something to them. When he distributed milk on the motorcycle, the police stopped him, searched him, told him that the motorcycle was stolen, and took it to the station; he lost much time recovering it. Another time he had to drop out of a training course because the police intimidated him again. He feels very indignant because of impunity regarding the facts, as if things had actually happened as they were described by the police, and even more so because his family has suffered so much intimidation. He has already testified before the Inter-American Court, during the public hearing on the merits, about almost all the acts of harassment and intimidation by the National Police that he suffered. He hopes that through the Court it will be possible for those responsible to be punished and for the truth of the facts to be made known. He also feels fear in rendering this statement. g) Carmen Cecilia Cuarán Muchavisoy, a sister of Hernán Javier Cuarán Muchavisoy. Hernán Javier Cuarán Muchavisoy was a school teacher and a musician. The witness heard of the facts the same day they happened, and her brothers Pablo Isidoro and Umberto went on a motorcycle to inquire about their brother Hernán Javier. She received a phone call to go urgently to see whether her brother was one of those wounded, and when she arrived at the hospital she found out that he had died. There were many people protesting, and the police did not allow her to enter. Her sister Rosa Alba, who worked there, was not allowed to enter either. When her brother Pablo attempted to take the coffin to the hospital, they hit him and did not

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