parts to the State, with a period of two months to submit information under Article 30.2 of the Regulations. On July 3, 2006 the State requested a thirty-day extension to comment, which was granted by the Commission. 5. On August 9, 2006 the State submitted its comments and on August 28, 2006 its attachments, which were notified to the petitioners on August 15 and September 13, 2006 respectively, for them to present their comments. The petitioners submitted comments on June 7, 2007, which were notified to the State on June 8, 2007, to present its comments. On August 18, 2007 the State submitted its observations. III. POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES A. Position of the petitioners 6. The petitioners indicate that on September 3, 1995 at 8:30 p.m. 18 year-old Wilfredo Quiñonez Barcenas along with two friends José Gregorio Romero Reyes and Albeiro Ramirez - left their homes on bicycles to attend a party to be held at La Floresta neighborhood in the city of Barrancabermeja, department of Santander. 7. They note that in the early morning María Rosalba Barcenas (mother of Wilfredo Quiñonez) - along with the parents of the other young men - went to police stations in the area, seeking information about their children, without success. They note that the local Army battalion, a soldier told them that three boys had been brought into to said facilities, after which the duty officer reprimanded him and denied the information. 8. They noted that on the morning of September 4, 1995, Wilfredo's body was found near Colegio Santo Tomás (St. Thomas School) in the La Paz neighborhood - on the road to Llanito - with nine gun shots, and signs of torture 1. They claim that according to an Army 1 Record of the identification of Wilfredo Quiñonez’s body Number 105, September 4, 1995 (pages 004 and 005): "in an area of five cm (original typo in Spanish, it read “cindo”), covering an open wound from the left frontal superciliary region and left orbital region; broken left eyeball (original typo in Spanish, it read “grobo”); open wound in suprabucal region and left side cigome region; wound with irregular edges in left suprahyoid region 7 cm from the midline; open wound with exposed bone and muscle and fracture of the upper left arm, two wounds in the subclavian region derived from the prior wound; wound with regular edges consecutive to the one with irregular edges on the mid left forearm; inner side, partial destruction of phalanges on the left small and ring finger; three open wounds in the right mammary region; open