34 three of the nine students that were subsequently subjected to extra-legal execution [, to wit, Marcelino Rosales-Cárdenas, Felipe Flores-Chipana and Armando Amaro Cóndor.]23 80(11) Students at the University had been reporting several outrages by the military officials serving at the campus. On May 29, 1992, the representatives of the “Comité de Internos" (Commission of Boarders) of La Cantuta University informed the Chancellor of the University, Dr. Alfonso Ramos-Geldres, that on May 24, 1992, at 9.00 p.m., about 20 to 25 armed, hooded and drunken members of the military forces went to the boarding houses of students and threatened to break into the rooms if students did not open the doors. As students told them they would only open the doors if they were accompanied by a university authority, the military officials came back with Professor Juan Silva, Director of University Welfare. So, the students opened the doors and the military officials took some household articles, justifying said actions by saying they were military tools and subversive materials. On July 1992, several commissions of students sent a note to the Chancellor of the University complaining for other outrages committed during the celebration of the “Teacher´s Day” on July 7, 8 and 9, 1992. In said notes they stated that the military agents had suddenly irrupted during the abovementioned ceremony, holding firearms and threatening them; they also denounced that another similar operation had taken place at the university restaurant, same day, during dinner time. Detention and execution or disappearance of Hugo Muñoz-Sánchez, Dora OyagueFierro, Marcelino Rosales-Cárdenas, Bertila Lozano-Torres, Luis Enrique Ortiz-Perea, Armando Richard Amaro-Cóndor, Robert Edgar Teodoro-Espinoza, Heráclides PabloMez, Juan Gabriel Mariños-Figueroa and Felipe Flores Chipana 80(12) On June 18, 1992, at dawn, members of the Peruvian army and agents of the Grupo Colina (Colina Group) (infra paras. 80(17) and 80(18), hooded, armed and wearing dark trousers and black "turtlenecks,” entered the university campus, bursting into the residences of professors and students. 80(13) Once inside the residences, the troops forced all the students to leave their rooms and lie belly-down on the floor. One soldier -who was identified as Lt.Medina by the students, though he tried not to be recognized- then pulled up each student’s head by the hair and separated those whose names were included in a list he was carrying in his hands. The students detained were Bertila Lozano-Torres, Dora Oyague-Fierro, Luis Enrique OrtizPerea, Armando Richard Amaro-Cóndor, Robert Edgar Teodoro-Espinoza, Heráclides PabloMez, Felipe Flores-Chipana, Marcelino Rosales-Cárdenas and Juan Gabriel Mariños-Figueroa. 80(14) On the other hand, the petitioner states that in the faculty residences, troops violently entered the home of Professor Hugo Muñoz-Sánchez by climbing over the yard wall and destroying the service entrance. They then gagged Prof. Muñoz-Sánchez and covered his head with a black cloth and dragged him away, while some of the assailants searched Prof. Muñoz-Sánchez’s bedroom and, at the same time, prevented his wife from leaving that room. 80(15) The soldiers left the University taking with them Professor Hugo Muñoz Sánchez and students Bertila Lozano-Torres, Dora Oyague-Fierro, Luis Enrique Ortiz-Perea, Armando Richard Amaro-Cóndor, Robert Edgar Teodoro-Espinoza, Heráclides Pablo-Meza, Felipe 23 Cf. Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 2003, Volume VII, 2(22) “Las ejecuciones extrajudiciales de universitarios de La Cantuta (1992)” (Extra-legal executions of La Cantuta University Students) p. 234.

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