41 interested in investigating the whereabouts of the victims of arbitrary arrests and forced disappearances.”112 135. The Court observes that the National Human Rights Commission has not been the only body of the State dedicated to the documentation and investigation of this type of facts. The National Commission recommended to the Executive, inter alia, “[t]hat it issue instructions to the Attorney General of the Republic in order to appoint a special prosecutor, so it c[ould] take charge of the investigation and prosecution, in its case, of the crimes that [could] result from the facts to which Recommendation [026/2001] [made] refer[ence].”113 The Federal Executive adopted the recommendation and once this Special Prosecutors’ Office was created in the year 2002, it examined the 532 case files processed by the National Commission, and received different complaints throughout 2002 and up to 2006.114 136. In the year 2006, the Special Prosecutors’ Office presented a “Historic Report to the Mexican Society” (supra paras. 73 through 75), in which it made reference to the existence, at the time at which Rosendo Radilla-Pacheco was arrested, of a pattern of arrests, torture, and forced disappearances of militant members of the guerrilla or people identified as its supporters. In the same, it indicated that: In a one-year term – from November 22, 1973 through November 19, 1974- we found in the reports of the National Defense Secretary, the recording of 207 detainees by the Army reported as ‘packages’. All these arrests were illegal. The detainees were interrogated, tortured, and many of them were forced to be informants. They were not put at the orders of a competent authority. They were kept in military prisons and clandestine detention centers for very long periods of time and many of them are missing.115 […] “The explicit objective of torturing detainees was to obtain information. The methods were not important. Since the inmate was never handed over to the competent authority, he could be submitted to all types of torture, including, damage to their faces, third-degree burns, making them drink gasoline, breaking the bones of the body, cutting or slicing of the bottom of their feet, giving them electrical shocks on different parts of their bodies, tying them from their testicles and hanging them, introducing glass bottles in women’s vaginas and submitting them to humiliation, 116 introducing hoses in their anus in order to fill them with water and then beat them.” 112 Cf. Recommendation 026/2001 of the National Human Rights Commission (dossier of appendixes to the application, appendix 3, folio 891 and dossier of appendixes to the respondent’s plea, appendix V(2), pages 19). 113 Cf. Recommendation 026/2001 of the National Human Rights Commission (dossier of appendixes to the application, appendix 3, folio 909 and dossier of appendixes to the respondent’s plea, appendix V(2), page 36). 114 Cf. Statement offered by Attorney Martha Patricia Valadez Sanabria before notary public (affidavit) on June 18, 2009 (dossier on merits, volume IV, folio 1423), and Evaluation Report on the Follow-up of Recommendation 26/2001, National Human Rights Commission, of August 25, 2009 (dossier on merits, volume IX, folio 3014). In the respondent’s plea, the State mentioned that “[t]he Special Prosecutors’ Office […] started working in 2002 with the initial receipt of the 532 case file gathered by the [National Commission] and, later, with the different complaints they received during 2002 and up to 2006, year in which through an agreement of the Attorney General of the Republic […]” the Special Prosecutors’ Office was closed and the investigations were transferred to the General Investigation Coordination (dossier on merits, volume II, folio 659). 115 Cf. Historical Report to the Mexican Society, Special Prosecutors’ Office for Social and Political Movements of the past. Attorney General of the Republic, 2006 (dossier of appendixes to the application, appendix 4, page 606). 116 Cf. Historical Report to the Mexican Society, Special Prosecutors’ Office for Social and Political Movements of the past. Attorney General of the Republic, 2006 (dossier of appendixes to the application, appendix 4, page 612).