14 vehicles that were leaving toward the morgue to avoid that his body be dumped into the Guaire River, as they had dumped many others. The witness started searching for his body in all the morgues of the city because she did not know the exact place where he had been taken to. A next of kin of another deceased inmate told them to go to the morgue of Los Teques, and after searching for five days they found him there. Those who inspected the body said it was swollen and had a bullet impact in the head. They received no collaboration from the State in the search. Her brother’s death affected her deeply, as she had always been keeping an eye on him. Her mother was also affected, she wanted to “jump in front of the cars and get killed.” Her mother does not work any longer, two brothers support her. Wilcon had a baby girl but she does not bear his surname. b) Statement of Nazario Ruiz, brother of Inocencio José Ruiz-Durán. At the time he was arrested, Inocencio worked as a motorcycle messenger and lived with his mother, his common-law spouse Xiomara del Carmen Uvan and their four children. His brother Inocencio had been charged with the theft of a motorcycle. When he died he had been imprisoned for nearly two years and he already had a prison release document. Inocencio was imprisoned in a small cell with twenty other prisoners. This cell had a window overlooking the yard and had no bathroom so that most of the time the prisoners moved their bowels in bags which they dumped to the yard through the window. Her brother had been suffering from strong headaches since he was eight years old. He was not given any medicine as in the prison there was not even an infirmary. A request had been submitted so that he could be transferred to a different place, but the request was not granted. On November 27, 1992, they got to know what had happened in the prison through the television. They travelled to the prison at once; all its surroundings were crowded with desperate men and women inquiring about their next of kin. Dead bodies could be seen in the vicinity of the prison, mostly toward the gorge that was at the back of the place, where many bodies were lying. The inmates shouted what was taking place in the inside and who had been killed. After three days they had not been able to find the body of their deceased brother yet. Finally they found it in the morgue of Bello Monte. He and his father went inside to identify the corpse. The bodies were lying on the floor, one over the other. His father had to move several corpses to be able to identify his brother Inocencio. They never started a criminal prosecution, an investigation or anything of the sort, “they let it fall into oblivion as if it had never happened.” His mother was deeply affected by the events and started feeling ill. His mother still cries for him as he was her youngest son, the one who was with her, he was always keeping an eye on her. Thirteen years have passed, and nobody has been held responsible, which means to “live speculating on what happened there, and this means anxiety, permanent questioning and it is the cause of his mother’s grief.” The witness expects to be listened to, he expects real justice and “that the one that has to pay for these deaths, will pay for them.” c) Statement of Mireya Ayala-Gualdrón, sister of José Ayala-Gualdrón

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