175. Upon receiving the criminal complaint, the Office of the Public Prosecutor on January 4, 2001 ordered a police investigation to be opened and sent the files to the special investigation team of the National Police of Peru to initiate procedures as necessary to clear up the claims. 188 The Specialized Provincial Prosecutor ordered exhumation of the bodies of the MRTA members,189 and medical exams to determine the cause and means or mechanism of death, and to identify each body.190 The prosecutor also sent the División Central de Exámenes Tanatológicos y Auxiliares, (DICETA), Central Division of Thanatology and Auxiliary Exams of the Instituto de Medicina Legal del Peru (hereinafter also IML), Peruvian Institute of Forensic Medicine, the reports of the partial autopsies on the fourteen MRTA members who had died in Operation “Chavín de Huántar”, to determine “whether the autopsies were performed in accordance with medical and legal standards for violent deaths in effect at the time.” 191 The reports from the forensic examinations were delivered on February 28, 2001, stating that legally required conditions had not been met for the mandatory opening of the cranial, pectoral and abdominal cavities.192 They also found that anthropomorphic data had not been recorded and that the diagnoses of the cause of death were “very general” and “lacked a scientific basis”.193 176. The exhumations began on March 12, 2001 and were completed the following March 16.194 Each of the deceased was exhumed and the bodies were removed and taken to the Lima Central Morgue. Autopsies were performed as ordered (external and internal studies of each January 3, 2001 (evidence file, volume XXXI, annex 1 to the State’s brief of closing arguments, folios 21062 to 21065), and complaint lodged by Eligia Rodríguez de Villoslada, January 18, 2001 (evidence file, volume XXXI, annex 1 to the State's brief of final closing arguments, folios 21060 to 21061). See also, Police Report 04-DIRPOCC-DIVAMPPNP prepared by the National Police of Peru, May 2, 2002 (evidence file, volume XXVI, CVR evidence, folios 18081 to 18085), and Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Informe Final, 2003, volume VII, chapter 2.66. Extrajudicial executions at the residence of the Japanese ambassador (1997), p. 727 (evidence file, volume I, annex 1 to the case submission brief, folio 13). Edgar Cruz Acuña joined the criminal complaint on March 16, 2001. Cf. Brief filed the next day, March 15, 2001, before the Specialized Provincial Prosecutor (evidence file, volume XXVII, CVR evidence, folios 19521 to 19523). Cf. Order by the Specialized Provincial Prosecutor on January 4, 2001 to open the police investigation (evidence file, volume XXVI, CVR evidence, folio 18903), and police report 04-DIRPOCC-DIVAMP-PNP prepared by the National Police of Peru on May 2, 2002 (evidence file, volume XXVI, CVR evidence, folios 18079 to 18214). 188 Cf. Order by the Specialized Provincial Prosecutor on January 4, 2001 to open the police investigation (evidence file, volume XXVI, CVR evidence, folio 18903), and ruling by the Third Special Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima, October 15, 2012 (evidence file, volume XX, annexed to the representatives’ observations on the State’s preliminary objections, folio 13579) 189 Cf. Report of forensic studies by the Institute of Forensic Medicine on MRTA members who died at the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru on August 16, 2001 (evidence file, volume I, annex 7 to the case submission brief, folio 131). The order was also given to designate Clyde C. Snow and José Pablo Baraybar, experts from the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team, to take part in the forensic procedures and perform “forensic anthropological studies to identify the [MRTA members] definitively and detect the means and causes of death.” Order delivered by the Specialized Provincial Prosecutor on March 2, 2001 (evidence file, volume XXXI, annex 4 to the State’s brief of final closing arguments, folio 21066). 190 Report of forensic studies by the Institute of Forensic Medicine on MRTA members who died at the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru on August 16, 2001 (evidence file, volume I, annex 7 to the case submission brief, folio 128). 191 Cf. Note 208-2001-MP-FN-IML/DICETA, February 28, 2001 (evidence file, volume XXVII, CVR evidence, folios 18994 to 19026). 192 Note 208-2001-MP-FN-IML/DICETA, February 28, 2001 (evidence file, volume XXVII, CVR evidence, folios 18994 to 19026). 193 Cf. Report of forensic studies by the Institute of Forensic Medicine on MRTA members who died at the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru on August 16, 2001 (evidence file, volume I, annex 7 to the case submission brief, folio 128). 194