23 Lastly, the witness stated that “the harassment by the Stroessner regime affected each and every member of [her] brother’s family. She asked the Court to ensure that “justice be done; that the remains of [her] brother, Agustín Goiburú, be found, [and] that those responsible for all the crimes perpetrated against them both be convicted.” She asked that “fair compensation” should be provided to her brother and “to his whole family,” and also to herself and her family. Finally, she asked that the State should offer an official apology “to the victims in this case in particular and [to] the victims of the dictatorial regime in general.” Expert witnesses a) Alfredo Boccia Paz, specialist in the context of the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner The expert witness stated that, during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, particularly towards the end of 1975 and in 1976, the State created “a sort of concentration camp of political detainees.” He also said that “denunciations, through a […] network of secret informers, prolonged imprisonment without trial, the torture of political prisoners, […] their execution and disappearance were coordinated by the Asunción Police Investigations Department.” The victims and their families “were unable to publicize their cases or make complaints abroad. […] There was almost no possibility of having recourse to a judge in the case of illegal imprisonment, because applications for habeas corpus were systematically refused with the argument that there was a state of siege.” Referring to “Operation Condor,” Mr. Boccia Paz stated that, at the beginning of the 1970s, “the ideological basis of [the dictatorial] regimes [of the Southern Cone countries] was the national security doctrine, […] which allowed them to consider leftist movements as common enemies, whatever their nationality.” Consequently, “thousands of citizens of the Southern Cone sought to escape oppression in their own country by taking refuge in bordering countries; [this] placed the potential enemies [of the regimes] beyond the reach of the national security agencies[, so] it became necessary to establish a common defense strategy, [which] required the use of common information codes and confidential files on detainees, as well as the free movement of foreign agents on the territory of neighboring countries.” The expert witness indicated that “the so-called ‘Terror Files’” were a significant breakthrough in the fight against impunity, because finding them allowed several of the main perpetrators of the repression to be prosecuted; new proceedings were opened for crimes against humanity; others that had been at a standstill in the courts owing to lack of evidence could be continued, and it was possible to obtain the first final judgment for political assassination in the country’s history.” Mr. Boccia Paz stated that “[Dr.] Goiburú was one of the founders of [MOPOCO], a combative faction of the Colorado party [and] had begun to denounce publicly the torture and the murders committed by the regime.” To escape the Government’s persecution, Dr. Goiburú “was obliged to go into exile in Argentina.” Dr. Goiburú was abducted for the first time in that country by “members of the Paraguayan coastguard based in Encarnación […] and transferred to Asunción in a military aircraft.” He managed to escape from prison, obtaining asylum in the Chilean Embassy, and then returned to Posadas, Argentina, where, since February 1977, “he has been on the list of disappeared.” The expert witness said that “an operation such