39 to the Commander General and denounced that the Congressmen of the opposition intended to incriminate the Army for violations of human rights in order to impair the prestige of the military institution. The release of said communication was made simultaneously with the movements of tanks to the building of the Armed Forces Joint Command in order to make clear the support to Commander General Hermoza Ríos. 80(29) On June 26, 1993, the Constituent Democratic Congress voted 39 - 13 against the report issued by the majority of the Investigation Committee, congressmen Roger Cáceres, Gloria Helfer and Carlos Cuaresma, whereby the high ranking officials of the Army were presumed criminally liable. The Congress approved the report drawn by the minority members, congressmen Gilberto Siura and Jaime Freundt-Thurne, which, inter alia, established that there was no evidence that the Peruvian Army, nor the National Intelligence Service, nor the then advisor of said intelligence service, had had any responsibility for the events under investigation. Discovery of clandestine graves and advanced investigation conducted by the 16th Provincial Criminal Prosecutor´s Office. 80(30) On July 12, 1993, the Magazine “Sí” published a sketch of clandestine graves located in the Chavilca gorge, Cieneguilla, where some human remains were found. On even date, the Director of the abovementioned magazine gave to the 16th Provincial Criminal Prosecutor´s Office in Lima the sketch of said graves, discovered by him and his team of journalists on July 8, 1993. 80(31) As a consequence of said discovery, the Prosecutor in charge of the 16th Provincial Criminal Prosecutor´s Office, Víctor Cubas-Villanueva, conducted an investigation in Cieneguilla, where four clandestine graves containing bones, most of them charred, were found. The bones found belonged to two women and to three men; one of said persons was probably over 40 years. Empty cartridges, remnants of clothes, textile fibers, hairs and two sets of keys were also found. 80(32) On the other hand, on July 13, 1993 the Dirección Nacional contra el Terrorismo (National Board against Terrorism) (DINCOTE, for its acronym in Spanish) called to a press conference in order to inform on the outcome of a police operation conducted on July 10, 1993, during which several alleged members of Shinning Path were arrested and several documents were seized, among them, a handwritten note addressed to Congressman Cáceres, where the clandestine graves of Cieneguillas were referred to and described. The DINCOTE presented citizen Juan Mallea as the alleged author of the sketch of the Cieneguilla graves and, in order to prove said accusation, it caused that a graphology analysis be carried out by an expert through the Forensic Graphology Department of the Division of Criminalistics of the National Police Force, and therefore Expert Report No. 1667/03 was issued, whereby the expert pointed out that the handwritten texts of the original sketch and those on the photocopy sent by DINCOTE, were the handwriting of Juan Mallea. However, during the investigation conducted against Juan Mallea by the 14th Provincial Prosecutor´s Office in Lima, new independent expert analysis were made, and all of them agree that none of the documents attributed to Juan Mallea had been written by him. 80(33) On August 20, 1993, an operation was carried out at the student residences, headed by the Prosecutor in charge of the investigation. It was possible to verify that the keys found in the Cieneguilla graves belonged to students Armando Richard Amaro-Cóndor and Juan Mariños-Figueroa.

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